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Pete's guitars and some hostile rantings and ravings



He had the '68 or '69 SG Custom (long reach neck (22nd fret on the neck, not
embedded in the body - nice for playing high leads).  Look CAREFULLY at his
SGs.  They look like the body was plane flush with the neck.  They look too
thin....  'Course we'll never know, since they've all been destroyed.

Oh, yeah, in the video Pictures of Lily Townshend used a 12 string Hagstrom
(from Sweden, I think...).  My friends used to collect Hagstroms when you
could pick 'em up for $75 in the used stores.  Now with the vintage guitar
craze, people jerk off on the damned things!  They're not that great to play,
though they sound great and I did record with a 12 string one....

The Rose Morris Ricks were three main styles.  1997 (2 pickup 6 string), 1998
(3 pickup 6 string) and some other number which was a 12 string two pickup.
Pete had that funny tailpiece on the Marquee poster (I compared my German
- -LP-print to the one from the Re-Ish Ltd. edition LAL, and the German one
is far superior.- but that's another story), and in a handwritten note from
John Hall (F.C.s son and current president), and he shucked and jived it away.
I'll have a machinist do a repro one day.... 

Uncle Brad is has the same setup as my Ltd. Edition.  I also got the George 
Harrison 360 12/V64 to round out the collection.  The workmanship on the
Ltd. edition Ricks are NOITICEABLY better than their standard Issues.  My
good buddy Spencer has five Ricks - two are Ltd. editions, two modern
standard models, and one unused '68.

Hiwatts.  Get the DR103 head and modify accordingly, or get outta my face.
Plus, the desirable cabinets have the lighter grillcloth.

They also apparently made slave amps... Probably what Townshend used for #s 
2 and 3 in his triple amp setup.  In my opinion, guaranteed to stir up 
hostility, all setups after 1978 sound winky-wanky to me and I have no 
respect for or interest in them whatsoever.
That's not the sound I like or was brought up with.

Oh, Kevin Winn's late sixties Hiwatt bass amp is the rulin'est head I've ever
seen in my short miserable life.  It is the genuine article.  I don't think
Entwistle used Hiwatt bass heads often, but I believe (and I do!) that this one
did once belong to him

Jeff