Retro Thing is a great blog. I found this nice little piece on the Silvertone guitars that once came right out the Sears catalog. A cool piece of vintage kit that had a humble start as a not so cool basic consumer axe. Many artist got their start with a Silvertone guitar. And not mentioned is Jack White who use that rare silver tone amps. There are some good links to other Silvertone links at the end of the Retro Thing article if you wish to learn more. The Silvertone amps sound great and the guitars look wonderful.
Nice blog you have!
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oh! i love it.beautiful……
Love the retro! Always liked the sound and of course the guitar look great. Thanks for the links.
Emailing you here because I couldn’t find access from your “Fuzz” entry, which I’m still looking at; cool stuff there. Just a correction though; The Kinks ‘All Day And All Of The Night” couldn’t have been a “culmination” of ‘Satisfaction’ by the Stones for two reasons: firstly, it’s not fuzz, but rather a ripped speaker cone. Secondly, it preceeded ‘Satisfaction’ in both session date and release date (in fact, ‘64 and ‘65, respectively). Chronology is important sometimes, eh? Truth be told, the first bona fide rock fuzz solo I’m aware of is by the Yardbirds, mid ‘64 … ‘A certain Girl’ (which would have been Clapton). Regards-