AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR, RANCHER 6022 MODEL

In the short film ‘At Home with Jeff Beck and his guitars’, produced by Viv Johns and Lykke Strunk and included as a bonus feature on the 2011 live concert DVD Rock 'n' Roll Party - Honouring Les Paul, Beck explains that the inspiration for him acquiring this flat-top orange-red acoustic with distinctive triangular soundhole was Blue Caps rhythm guitarist Paul Peek. Elaborating on this in his 2016 book BECK01 Beck wrote: 'In The Girl Can't Help It, Paul Peek played a Gretsch Rancher. It looks like it has a bullet hole in it, but the hole was actually caused by a cherry bomb that one of the Blue Caps put inside. I got a Gretsch Rancher especially for Adrian Utley - the guitarist in the Playboys - because I wanted to get as close in sound to the Blue Caps as possible. It was a bit of a dog to play, but Adrian managed really well.' The guitar was used to record rhythm parts for Beck's 1993 rockabilly album Crazy Legs, created in homage to one of his heroes, Cliff Gallup of Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps.
In the 2018 documentary Jeff Beck: Still on the Run, Beck can be seen jamming at home with Darrel Higham, the latter playing this Rancher.