I’ve been working on a duo thing with my old buddy Bill Dees and we are dipping our toes in the water this weekend with a couple of road gigs.
Friday night in York, Nebraska and Saturday in Pella, Iowa.
Bill is a truly one of a kind and he has been putting in some serious work on this little “project”. I’ve been kind of hush hush about it but, it’s real cool.
I’ll let you how it goes and there will be some canned posts until I get back including a deceptively simple cage match.
It was out in Texola, Oklahoma which is on the border of the Texas panhandle. It was a cinder block building. The bar was in the front room and there was a single door leading to the room where the band played which had a lower ceiling. It had the effect of walking in to a cave.
In an effort to improve the acoustics, the club owner attached burlap bags all around the “stage” area; on the walls and ceiling. The thing was though, these were cotton seed sacks.
It was a three piece rock and roll band; real loud affair (power trios are always the loudest).
Anyway, we got to thumping pretty good and, all of the sudden a boll weevil dropped on my shoulder. You ever look at a boll weevil eye to eye?
The cotton seed sacks were infested with boll weevils!
All night long boll weevils came falling down like hail.
I’ve seen a ton of gear gimmicks during my tenure but, the Silvertone amp in case was one that was truly cool.
The photo above photo is a one pickup model.Here’s some info on the double found at VintageSilvertones.com…
Here’s the original description from the 1963 Sears catalog:
An Electric Guitar with dual pickup .. a Carrying Case with 8-inch speaker .. an Amplifier with tremolo for rich vibrating sound
The Guitar .. longer 21-fret hand-rubbed Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. Two magnetic pickups widen and enrich sound. Tremolo adds exciting pulsating professional effects. 2 volume, 2 tone controls. Tremolo speed and strength controls. Black finish solid center body, silver-color accents; guard-plate. About 37×13x2 in. Case and Amplifier .. 3 tubes plus rectifier, bigger-toned 8-in. speaker. Finer vinyl-covered hardboard, red rayon plush lining. About 39×14x3 in. 45-rpm How-to-Play Record, charts, pick included.Description from VintageSilvertones.com
57G1449L-Wt. 27 lbs. $9 mo. …. Cash $99.95
There were several cats in the neighborhood that had these. I don’t recall the guitar as being particularly noteworthy but, the amp positively screamed. I think it was in the under 5 watt range. I see so many tube micro-amps these days for big bucks, it got me to wondering what these handy items went for back in the day.
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