I can remember his music coming from the juke box in my parents tavern back in the 60's. Then of course his appearance in The Dirty Dozen. Rest in peace Mr. Lopez and thanks for the memories!
As a guitar player, I am also aware that Gibson came to Lopez and asked him to design a guitar for them. He actually designed two! From Wikipedia:
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Wikipedia: Two Trini Lopez signature models were developed based on the ES-335 model, known as the Trini Lopez Standard and the Trini Lopez Custom. They were initially produced from 1964-1971, and reissues have been produced periodically since the initial run.
The Trini Lopez Standard featured the same body shape and profile as the ES-335, with diamond-shaped holes in the place of the f-shaped holes, a Gibson Firebird headstock, split diamond inlays on the fingerboard, a trapeze tailpiece with a plaque with Trini Lopez's name, and a standard cherry red finish. A modified version of the Trini Lopez Standard, with a stop-tailpiece and a custom Pelham Blue finish is used by Dave Grohl as his primary stage guitar; the Gibson Custom Shop produced a market version known as the "DG-335" in 2015.
The Trini Lopez Custom came in a standard cherry sunburst finish, had a thicker body and cutout bouts with pointed tips instead of the standard rounded tips (similar to the Gibson Barney Kessel Custom guitar), a more ornate pickguard, and different locations for its two selector switches, but otherwise had the same tailpiece, fingerboard, headstock, and electronics as the Trini Lopez Standard.
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His Dirty Dozen character Pedro Jiminez, dies off-screen after a parachute jump word is he clashed with director Robert Aldrich and was written out of the film.
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Originally posted by HRK: His Dirty Dozen character Pedro Jiminez, dies off-screen after a parachute jump word is he clashed with director Robert Aldrich and was written out of the film.
Yeah, reportedly Lopez demanded his part to be larger and Aldrich basically dumped him the next day, having him hang on an apple tree, some say a slight reference to his song "The Lemon Tree".
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WRT to the Dirty Dozen, the movie Sleepless in Seattle, has a scene where Tom Hanks and Victor Garber (as Hanks’ brother in law) dunk on Rita Wilson’s (as Hanks’ sister) take on weepy chick flicks, and Tom Hanks’ situation in the movie, by lamenting that everyone cried when Trini Lopez died in the Dirty Dozen.....
