This article was submitted by Guitar Jar contributor: Mark Angel
I was 11 when I got my first guitar. Actually it was my second guitar; the first was a complete junker from a jumble sale, so we’ll ignore that one, but as my mum thought I had a flair for the guitar she bought me a “proper” guitar.
That was back in January of 1974 and the guitar in question was an Egmond Lucky 7 Semi-Acoustic in a beautiful cherry red.
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This review was submitted by Guitar Jar contributor: Mark Angel
I had a Sound City 100W valve head in the late 70′s and early 80′s. It was a beast of an amp but eventually it was replaced with a solid state Peavey combo. That combo was gigged and gigged and was smaller, lighter, more versatile, and more resilient than the Sound City. The valve head ended up in the garage – worthless – and got given away many years later. Such was the destiny of valve amps it seems. (Now those heads are worth mucho $£. Wish I’d kept it!).
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This review was submitted by Guitar Jar contributor: Mark Angel
I saw Steve Marriott (Small Faces, Humble Pie) with his band Packet of Three in a pub in North London in 1985. As many folks will know his guitar for that era with a red Gibson 335. I’d always loved the 335 – I guess I first became really aware of them when I noticed it was also the main guitar of Alvin Lee of Ten Years After. Fast forward 20 or so years and I was on the lookout for something a little more mellow than my Strat, Tele and Ibanez. I took a long look at the Epiphone 335 but didn’t really see one I liked and then I set my eyes upon the Washburn.
This review was submitted by Guitar Jar contributor: Mark Angel
I bought this guitar in 1979 from ESS Music in Barnet High Street (London, UK). I think it may well be a Digital Village shop now. I was a spotty youth of 16/17 and I’d saved and saved to get this. It was £229 and I still have the receipt. I didn’t even play it before I bought it; if it was good enough for Jimi, it was good enough for me.
This review was submitted by Guitar Jar contributor: Mark Angel
So, I’m an electric guitar player really, but when I moved to leading the music in my local church, acoustic guitar seemed to be most appropriate. Over the years I’ve owned several acoustic guitars, and I eventually settled on a nice Ovation bowl back Celebrity Deluxe in cherry red. I had the guitar professionally setup and it played beautifully. The trouble is, when you hit the prime age of 40 you start to expand in places that were previously not so flabby, and I eventually found that my Ovation’s bowl-back was incompatible with my bowl-front. Hmmm.
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