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Not much surf guitar content here except for the reverb units:
A new guitar store opened up in my town and I paid a visit over lunch.
Nothing really exciting in the guitar department, except for a very odd 1965
Vox "Phantom" guitar. Three single coil pickups, a zero fret, big funky
tremolo like a Bigsby, a Jazzmaster/Jaguar looking bridge and saddles
(except bridge was very low to the body), and it had a string mute! The mute
was this weird contraption that pivoted on the bridge itself. The muting
material had long petrified or fossilized (I assume it was some kind of foam
rubber at one time). And the guitar had that weird
rhombus/parallelogram/whatever Vox shape.
But in the amp department, this place was going for the boutique angle I
think. They had amps from amp makers I had never heard of: CARR, Victoria
Amp Co, and some others that sounded European. All cosmetically gorgeous,
all tube jobs, most of them 2x12" combos, around 50W or so, and all around
the $3000 mark!
They had two Victoria Amp Co reverb units, one in black tolex and the other
brown. Both had reverb and tremelo and looked all tube. Physically they were
larger than the Fender units. I think they were called "Reverberato". And
get this....$1495.00!!! Yikes.
Here are some links (Who played these? British
Invasion bands?)
