Pretty sure he wrote most of Tommy with it too. https://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/j200.htmlI wonder how many song of his he wrote on this F50? For instance, Townshend had a Gibson J-200 he loved, and I believe he wrote most of the songs from Who's Next and forward on it. But I am only really guessing. It's pretty to think so, as Hemmingway would say...
I was basing my comment on the Weedon model on his relative obscurity in the United States. I would guess most folks in the US who know Bert, only do so by being name-dropped by folks like Beck and Page in interviews. Unless they own Hans' book.That's a good question for Hans!
I just looked up the Bert Weedon guitar and the Guild he played had DeArmond pickups and not Franz. So it looks like the guitar in the Kingsmen has the Master Vol like the Weedon model but different pickups. So it's possible it is not a hollow body Weedon guitar after all. However to my knowledge I wasn't aware of a early SF5 model with Franz pickups.
Hopefully other will chime in on this subject.
The guitar that Mike Mitchell of The Kingsmen is playing has DeArmond pickups.That's a good question for Hans!
I just looked up the Bert Weedon guitar and the Guild he played had DeArmond pickups and not Franz. So it looks like the guitar in the Kingsmen has the Master Vol like the Weedon model but different pickups. So it's possible it is not a hollow body Weedon guitar after all. However to my knowledge I wasn't aware of a early SF5 model with Franz pickups.
In the 1963 UK catalog she was 208 pounds (the pricelists showed £sd ("pounds, shillings and pence").The Bert Weedon must have been pretty expensive in England back then, especially for the "Play in a Day" crowd it was aimed at.
The Weedon model then works out to roughly $650 US dollars in 1963. I suspect there weren't a lot of folks willing to pony up that kind of money. The "average weekly pay" for a man working in industry in 1964 was £17 12s. Women made about half that.In the 1963 UK catalog she was 208 pounds (the pricelists showed £sd ("pounds, shillings and pence").
According the CPI Inflation calculator £208 in 1963 is worth £5,371.31 today which would equal to US$6,782,17!
compared to even higher 227 pounds for the Starfire V in the same catalog:
Ralf
Forgot about this
A Gibson bass pickup as found on the EB-0, EB-2 and EB-3. I think you would have to be pretty high to want one on your guitar. Or to cut up a Barney Kessel archtop for a third humbucker. Although that one looks like it had some custom pickup put in the neck, and the neck humbucker moved to the newly chopped hole in the middle of the top.What is that mod on the Starfire? Extra pup, I assume?
Not getting the reference? I see Boz Scaggs with an SF-V with the EB-O p/u in middle position.A Gibson bass pickup as found on the EB-0, EB-2 and EB-3. I think you would have to be pretty high to want one on your guitar. Or to cut up a Barney Kessel archtop for a third humbucker.
Think you're describing Miller's guitar?Although that one looks like it had some custom pickup put in the neck, and the neck humbucker moved to the newly chopped hole in the middle of the top.
Right. There's a whole lot of "hot mess mods" in that photo.Not getting the reference? I see Boz Scaggs with an SF-V with the EB-O p/u in middle position.
Think you're describing Miller's guitar?
I would guess most folks in the US who know Bert, only do so by being name-dropped by folks like Beck and Page in interviews.