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Chris,
His name is Jim Schmitz. How did Scratch go? I remember having the
most trouble picking out his leads during the stop times. Still,
unless I'm playing along with it I don't do it all note for note.
What kind of guitar were you using?
That woulda been something if the guy who bought your tank was Ron
Griffith, but the guy you met was probably one of his replacements.
I think the Lively Ones started up pretty early in Surfmen history.
Bill
>
> Bill -
>
> Who was this mystery man? It sounds like a cool lead on some
> interesting info. I spent part of the long weekend
> learning "Scratch". Have you seen the '86 SouthBay reunion tape?
>
> An interesting side note to this is a few years ago I sold a
> Reissue reverb tank on e-bay, and the guy that bought it sent me
a
> picture of his original 61 showman that the tank was going to be
> used with. I asked if he played surf, and he said he was in a
band
> in the 60's. he said it was one of the incarnations of The
Surfmen,
> and he played bass with them for a very short while. He got
drafted
> soon afterwards. I don't remember his name.
>
> after all that, maybe it wasn't so interesting after all.....
>
> Chris
> --- In , "supertwangreverb"
> <supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
> >
> > I know there are a few on here who've been following along
with
> > the
> > Eddie Bertrand "gear site" so I thought I'd give you a little
> > update. First I've gotten a new computer, which doesn't have
> > frontpage so updating any of my websites is a challenge right
now.
> >
> > Anyway...
> > I got a really interesting email this morning from someone who
> says
> > they were around at that time a few of the pictures were taken
> that
> > I have on the site. He says the reverb tank in the Hollywood
Bowl
> > picture was his and that Rob Edwards was using "his"
Bandmaster.
> > Also the Beach Boys followed and used the same amps.
> >
> > We had a discussion awhile back about Eddie's "blue Jag" in that
> > picture being his white guitar touched up. He did verify the
> guitar
> > being the white one, however, he said Rob Edwards was often
> sanding
> > and refinishing his own guitars and thought Eddie may have done
> the
> > same.
> >
> > He says Eddie had surgury at some point and Larry Carlton played
> the
> > lead guitar for awhile, then he went into Larry's guitars. He
did
> > say that he thought everyone bought matching Strats so it is
> > possible that Eddie had more than just the one Stratocaster.
> >
> > He then said "Bob Knight or Doug Hensen would know, or ask Eddie
> if
> > you can get him to call back."
> >
> > So there may be a chance I can contact Eddie afterall.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > The Guitars of Eddie Bertrand
> > www.geocities.com/supertwangreverb
