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Hey guys, how about a round on our earliest hardware?
My first electric guitar was a late '50s Epiphone
Century, non-cutaway, single New York style pickup
(bad guitar). I built my first amp that year (1963)
out of a small phono/pa amp my father had. I went to
Sears and bought the covering material for the
basement built cabinet in their fabric
department...the grill cloth came from Olsen
Electronics (anybody remember Olsen's). Although I
was really short sighted and tossed that first cabinet
I built several years back, I still have the power amp
and it still works!!!. Also anybody checked out
myfirstband.com? This site rocks......Eddie old dude
--- John McCorvey <> wrote:
> Our first try at putting a band together came in the
> early months of 1963. We actually "recruited" two
> different "guitar players" on two different
> occasions
> because they owned an amp.....One of the guys was
> forced to quit the band because we borrowed his amp
> and "forgot" to take him to the gig.....His mother
> had
> no sense of humor..Just can't figure out why.....I
> was
> just thinking that back in early '63 most of the
> guys
> in bands around here were using the Silvertone
> 1472's
> and 1482's. I can't remember any of the local bands
> doing vocals until maybe the summer of 1963.....More
> of the history of Katcher to follow......ed
>
> --- mono_tones_1 <> wrote:
>
> > --- In , bruce duncan
> > <wetreverb@y...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > His wife gave him no end of grief over coming to
> > band rehearsals, so
> > ultimately we had to replace him,
> >
> >
> > bruce, didn't you mean "so ultimately we had to
> > replace her" ?
> >
> >
> > sorry couldn't resist ;-)
> >
> > WR
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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I slapped a pair of headphones about the body of an acoustic guitar and pluggeed
it into the family stereo. That was my first electric. The second was a '63 SG
with a repaired neck.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: John McCorvey
To:
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Re: The history of us.......equipment!
Hey guys, how about a round on our earliest hardware?
My first electric guitar was a late '50s Epiphone
Century, non-cutaway, single New York style pickup
(bad guitar). I built my first amp that year (1963)
out of a small phono/pa amp my father had. I went to
Sears and bought the covering material for the
basement built cabinet in their fabric
department...the grill cloth came from Olsen
Electronics (anybody remember Olsen's). Although I
was really short sighted and tossed that first cabinet
I built several years back, I still have the power amp
and it still works!!!. Also anybody checked out
myfirstband.com? This site rocks......Eddie old dude
--- John McCorvey <> wrote:
> Our first try at putting a band together came in the
> early months of 1963. We actually "recruited" two
> different "guitar players" on two different
> occasions
> because they owned an amp.....One of the guys was
> forced to quit the band because we borrowed his amp
> and "forgot" to take him to the gig.....His mother
> had
> no sense of humor..Just can't figure out why.....I
> was
> just thinking that back in early '63 most of the
> guys
> in bands around here were using the Silvertone
> 1472's
> and 1482's. I can't remember any of the local bands
> doing vocals until maybe the summer of 1963.....More
> of the history of Katcher to follow......ed
>
> --- mono_tones_1 <> wrote:
>
> > --- In , bruce duncan
> > <wetreverb@y...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > His wife gave him no end of grief over coming to
> > band rehearsals, so
> > ultimately we had to replace him,
> >
> >
> > bruce, didn't you mean "so ultimately we had to
> > replace her" ?
> >
> >
> > sorry couldn't resist ;-)
> >
> > WR
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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--- John McCorvey <> wrote:
"Hey guys, how about a round on our earliest hardware?"
My first guitar was a garage-sale model Hohner electric. It
had a cool single coil pickup and a wild machined bridge.
My dad bought a cool early 70s Fender Champ Amp from a
friend at his work (for,like, $25!)...
My first bass was a "Sears Special" short-scale totally
cheap tiawan bass... think it was like $75 brand new from
the catalogue. It had flatwounds and didn't stay in tune
too well.
-dp
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How well I remember! My first guitar was a no-name import Nylon-String
Classical. Just imagine me riffing along with Walk Don't Run, Pipeline, etc on
that!
Soon as I had some spare cash, I got my first electric, out of the Sears
catalog, an import 2-pickup with whammy. What a joke! The stock 13-gauge
Strings buzzed if set any lower than about 1/8th inch above the fretboard,
intonation was impossible, and it wouldn't stay in tune to save it's soul!
Helped put some nice thick calluses on my fretting fingers though.
First amp was a very used St. George that probably dated from the late 50's -
early 60's, like a junior '59 Bassman. Cool for blues but no good for surf! I
sold the guitar and amp and replaced them with a '57 Fender Duo Sonic and a
Sears piggy-back amp that had tremolo and reverb. Traded the Duo Sonic for an
"L" series Jazzmaster and my learning curve shot up dramatically after that.
(about 1971)
In 1984 I sold the Sears amp and bought my first Fender, a Princeton Reverb, and
have been hooked on that "sound" ever since!
Bruce D
DP <> wrote:
--- John McCorvey <> wrote:
"Hey guys, how about a round on our earliest hardware?"
My first guitar was a garage-sale model Hohner electric. It
had a cool single coil pickup and a wild machined bridge.
My dad bought a cool early 70s Fender Champ Amp from a
friend at his work (for,like, $25!)...
My first bass was a "Sears Special" short-scale totally
cheap tiawan bass... think it was like $75 brand new from
the catalogue. It had flatwounds and didn't stay in tune
too well.
-dp
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