The Spotnicks 1963 .. name those amps.

[Foz]

Nice...

 

[J-Bassomatic]

HOW DARE YOU!!!



The Spotnicks were a surf band dressed as astronauts or aliens. A very good one, too. Devo was a full-on art project with a well thought-out theme of de-evolution being the driving force of mankind behind every move they made. However, at one point, 3 of the guys in Devo did a side project called The Wipeouters where they did surf music:

Yeah, we used to see Devo when they were playing clubs. They, Like Trent Reznor (Exotic Birds), did pretty well for themselves.

 

[iiipopes]

I don't know about the amplifiers, but the first song they are playing is España Cañi, a traditional pasodoble which I have played everything from lead trumpet to tuba in concert bands, but not on guitar or bass. As you can hear, the song lends itself especially well to surf guitar. Or space guitar.

 

[JimmyM]

Yeah, we used to see Devo when they were playing clubs. They, Like Trent Reznor (Exotic Birds), did pretty well for themselves.

I'd have loved to have seen Devo back then. Not so much Trent's earliest bands, though

 

[Ostie]

The bass player isn't playing a Fender Precision, I don't know what it is, here is the head stock.
Hagstrom? It's not a VOX.

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I’m seeing a zero fret and some really strange tuners.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Nothing like a little Spotnicks with my morning coffee....

No clue.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Actually 1965 was my 1st band.... still gigging at 74

Mine was in 66, but I didn’t have anything that big that would cause an issue for a 13 year old to haul around. Actually, I think my first electric guitar outweighed my first amp, that wasn’t around long

 

[2tonic]

I’m seeing a zero fret and some really strange tuners.

As well as two pickups, which appear outwardly, to be some type of humbucker.
At least, twin coils showing.

 

[BassmanPaul]

The Shadows, Cliff Richard's backing band, were what got me into playing bass. In 1962 myself and three Grammar school chums, got together to play their instrumentals. As I did not have an instrument I was shown using the bottom four strings of a guitar. That summer I worked on a potato farm for six weeks to earn the money to buy a VOX Clubman II two pickup bass. It was terrible but it taught me the basics.

Memory tells me the following:

Lead Guitar: Hank Marvin
Rhythm Guitar: Bruce Welsh
Bass Guitar: Licorice Locking
Drums: Brian Bennet.

the thing I liked about the Shadows was the clarity of the recordings. Each instrument was easily heard. Made it great to learn the parts.

 

[Redbrangus]

Instrumental E-Lek-Trick guitar rock and roll was a big thing in those days, and from what I'm hearing, Mr. Winberg must have listened to a lot of Hank Marvin (from The Shadows), with some Dick Dale and Duane Eddy on the side. Those plastic plexi helmets are being rushed into production again for use on the road by everybody later this year . . . . .

So for the kiddies and our other younger readers, THIS is where your vintage guitars came from :









Guys starting on guitar back then had to learn this one, or you'd get laughed out of the neighborhood:



. . . . . and what a lot of people think is the very first rock and roll record, Ike Turner's 'Rocket 88':

In 1967-68, when I was 15 and 16, I worked at a small-town music store. We had a lot of guitar students. I didn't teach, but I did get pressed into service as a bass player when we had the occasional "recital" at the high school auditorium. All day long, morning until nightfall, our combo backed up countless boy guitar players blundering their way through guitar instrumentals like Apache, Wipe-out, Walk Don't Run, Pipeline, Rebel Rouser, etc. And Wildwood Flower, for the country folks. I grew to dislike those tunes so much that I couldn't stand hearing them for about 20 years. I'm over that now--I like a lot of that stuff... but if I were to ever hear a cover band cranking up Wipe-out, I'd still probably find an excuse to take a powder.

 

[Yellow Bang66]

The huge cabs could be organ 'tone cabinets'. The amp 'head' looks like it could be a monaural hi-fi amp. Sharp act...I really dig the precision choreography. Even more than the uniforms. Like I say...sharp!

das Spoootnicks!

 

[JW56789]

In 1967-68, when I was 15 and 16, I worked at a small-town music store. We had a lot of guitar students. I didn't teach, but I did get pressed into service as a bass player when we had the occasional "recital" at the high school auditorium. All day long, morning until nightfall, our combo backed up countless boy guitar players blundering their way through guitar instrumentals like Apache, Wipe-out, Walk Don't Run, Pipeline, Rebel Rouser, etc. And Wildwood Flower, for the country folks. I grew to dislike those tunes so much that I couldn't stand hearing them for about 20 years. I'm over that now--I like a lot of that stuff... but if I were to ever hear a cover band cranking up Wipe-out, I'd still probably find an excuse to take a powder.

I know that feeling exactly !

Although it was a hoot more than a few years ago, some sort of show I saw with a lot of the English greats, and Hank Marvin was part of the tribute. A real hoot to see Clapton, George Harrison, and others hanging with him and watching him play Apache, just all google-eyed like the little boys they were when they first heard him.

 

[bassdude51]

Swedish Surf Music.........don't get no better.

 

[iiipopes]

The bass player isn't playing a Fender Precision, I don't know what it is, here is the head stock.
Hagstrom? It's not a VOX.

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The tuners, pickups, and general body shape look like Höfner solid body, but the pickguard and bridge do not look like the models I'm familiar with.

 

[BassmanPaul]

The tuners, pickups, and general body shape look like Höfner solid body, but the pickguard and bridge do not look like the models I'm familiar with.

Agreed. The hardware looks much like those on my violin bass I once owned. Hofner did have some solid body basses similar to that pictured and the string spacing is about right too.

 

[iiipopes]

Agreed. The hardware looks much like those on my violin bass I once owned. Hofner did have some solid body basses similar to that pictured and the string spacing is about right too.

Custom pickguard to look more like a P-bass?

 

[Winoman]

Instrumental E-Lek-Trick guitar rock and roll was a big thing in those days, and from what I'm hearing, Mr. Winberg must have listened to a lot of Hank Marvin (from The Shadows), with some Dick Dale and Duane Eddy on the side. Those plastic plexi helmets are being rushed into production again for use on the road by everybody later this year . . . . .

So for the kiddies and our other younger readers, THIS is where your vintage guitars came from :









Guys starting on guitar back then had to learn this one, or you'd get laughed out of the neighborhood:



. . . . . and what a lot of people think is the very first rock and roll record, Ike Turner's 'Rocket 88':

Don't forget Link Wray from 1958!

 

[dbase]

Don't forget this little diddy

 

[ac100X]

Custom pickguard to look more like a P-bass?

I tried to find the bass but all I can say is it has Hagstrom characteristics, First four are of the Sputnik guys bass, next four are 60's - 70's Hagstroms see photos:

 

[iiipopes]

I tried to find the bass but all I can say is it has Hagstrom characteristics, First four are of the Sputnik guys bass, next four are 60's - 70's Hagstroms see photos:

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Agreed. Quite an enigma!