Steve Wariner’s ’62 Fender Jazz Bass
An eye-popping collectible in its own right, this Olympic White ’62 Fender Jazz Bass scores a few points higher on the scale not only...
1968 Teisco May Queen
While many Japanese guitars from the 1960s took their inspiration from American and European models, to the observant eye, there's a strong undercurrent of...
Renaissance T-200G
What is it about Plexiglas? It's so cool. You can see through it onstage. It's dense, yet resonant. You'd think it would be the...
Etched in Time
In 1984, Christian Roebling went from being just another guy watching TV to creating what was likely the first television program to focus on...
Forty Quid of Klunk
Duh-Duh-Duh-Duh-Duh, Klunk!
It’s not the most artful musical introduction, but it was effective. And by the time a screaming Hammond organ slides in over...
Ronnie Wood’s ’69 Hiwatt 100 DR103
1969 Hiwatt 100 (Model DR103
Preamp tubes: four ECC83
Output tubes: four EL34
Rectifier: solidstate
Controls: Normal Vol, Brill Vol, Bass, Treble, Middle, Presence, Master Vol
Speaker: four Fane...
Peavey Forum Basses
In his 2003 book, American Basses, author Jim Roberts noted that for all of Peavey’s innovative offerings in the 1990s, “...the company hadn’t forgotten...
Gretsch Jet Firebird
Given the number of jet-related model monikers in Gretsch’s 1950s and ’60s catalogs, one might get the impression the company built airplanes. There were...
Spectrum 5
Joining playful mid-’60s cultural icons such as the Ford Mustang, NBC’s “The Monkees,” the Beatles’ “Nowhere Man” and Cassius Clay, the Teisco Del Rey Spectrum...
Yamaha Image
Some years back, an insurance company promoted itself as “the quiet company.” While they probably wouldn’t like to hear it, in many ways that...