One More Time, With Feeling

Mon., July 15, 1996

Associated Press

Music City’s pickers still were grinnin’ even though they had failed to break the world guitar marathon record.

Musicians including Chet Atkins, Steve Earle and the Goo Goo Dolls showed up for the attempt by nearly 1,000 guitar players at Nashville’s Riverfront Park Saturday night.

“We’ve got the U.S. record at least,” said Jim Rosenberg, president of Epiphone Guitars, the event’s organizer. “We’ll try again next year because this was a lot of fun.”

Nashville was trying to surpass the record set in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994. That’s when 1,320 guitarists played “Taking Care of Business” for 68 minutes and 40 seconds.

The Guinness Book of Records listed that feat as the most people playing the same song together for the longest period of time.

Nashville’s guitarists did break Vancouver’s time record as they kept up Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” for 79 minutes and 30 seconds.

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