It was 35 years ago today.....

[Mark Hammer]

....that Sgt. Pepper used this gear to play.

I just posted a playful file over at http://hammer.ampage.org

I stumbled upon an old issue of "Downbeat" magazine from June of 1969 recently, and got a chuckle out of the ads, most of them for amplifiers.  I figured I'd scan and post them.  How proud Fender was of those solid-state units!  How loudly Kustom proclaimed the virtues of tantalum capacitors!  There was power in them flowers, baby!!

Included in the largish (2.9M) zipfile is an ad from that issue which is one of the earliest Electro-Harmonix ads I have in my possession.  I seem to recall earlier sparser ads than this one, but most of you have probably never seen ads (and prices!) from that era.  An LPB-1 listed for $14.95.

A trip back in time.  Nice cover shot of Mike Bloomfield too.

Enjoy.

[Doug H]

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[Mark Hammer]

Yeesh!!! You are correct.  Not sure what happened, since all the other files load nicely.  I'll look into it.

[Mark Hammer]

FIXED!!

[Peter Snowberg]

That's totally groovey Mark!

Thanks for posting it!

Take care,
-Peter

[Hal]

cool!

Look at the fender one...I love how they boast "Sold State" as a feature!  So great!

[BILLYL]

Really Great!!!!!!
I didn't know that there was a LAWRENCE amp with a Life time warranty -

COOL


BILL LAWRENCE

[Fret Wire]

COOL


BILL LAWRENCE

Are you the Bill Lawrence? If so, nice to meet you I've read your posts, and always found them to be very informative. Here's an official welcome from me  (I'm nobody lol) Never too old to be a little star struck, lol.

BTW, Brian Wenz, you could tell me Lord Sutch and Ritchie Blackmore stories all day, and I'd never get tired

Pete

[DaveTV]

Shhhh....I'm busy digging on the big Ace Tone catalog...mindblowing! Say, could anybody tout me on where to find the nearest Ace Tone dealer?

Yeah, man! Send me a catalog while I'm still picking up on the colors!

[Doug H]

Great stuff, Mark.

I especially love "The Exterminator".

250 watts of "screaming treble that is almost unreal".

Man, I need one of those!

Doug

[RDV]

I've played through one of those Standel amps. They were one of the better SS amps out there.

Regards

RDV

[snorky]

What model Hofner is that guitar in the Ace Tone catalog??

Thanks for posting those!  :-)

- Mark

[RDV]

What model Hofner is that guitar in the Ace Tone catalog??

This one maybe?

1961 HOFNER V3 SOLID GUITAR


Regards

RDV

[snorky]

That's close, but the ad guitar has 3 tuners/side.

[StephenGiles]

Sorry chaps but don't get too excited about the that guitar - they were awful, believe me!

[lvs]

Hehe, nice memories. I still have a Kustom 250 made in Chanute... over the years it has begun to snapcracklepop a bit but still a cool machine.  I used to have a LPB1 also.