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27th Jan 2023, 1:24 pm | #1 |
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Spot the Equipment...
Hello,
I was looking up some info as regards the late great Jeff Beck and I came upon some photos online of Jeff in his Surrey, home in the late 1960’s. https://www.pictorialpress.com/music/jeff-beck-13/ https://www.pictorialpress.com/music/jeff-beck-6/ https://www.pictorialpress.com/music/jeff-beck-20/ There is a Tape Recorder, TV, and hi-fi equipment..., and as a bit of a diversion, can anyone identify the equipment in the three attached links…? I think the amplifier is a Rogers HG88 and the speaker a Leak [Mini?] Sandwich, the turntable (which you can just about make out) is possibly a Goldring GL75. I’ve not copied the pictures and put them on the forum for the obvious Copyright reasons. Terry |
27th Jan 2023, 1:55 pm | #2 |
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Re: Spot the Equipment...
Speakers look big enough to be original Leak Sandwich - just like the pair I've mostly been using for the last 25 years - and the tape recorder is perhaps a Series 420 Ferrograph.
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ferrog...eries_420.html Control positions are right, but handle and case look more recent - so, yes, something more like a 632. Paul Last edited by Paul_RK; 27th Jan 2023 at 2:00 pm. |
27th Jan 2023, 2:41 pm | #3 |
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Re: Spot the Equipment...
THe amp is a Rogers. Not sure of model given the angle and resolution.
Agree on the Ferrograph and Sandwich. David
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27th Jan 2023, 3:17 pm | #4 |
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Re: Spot the Equipment...
Rogers HG88 Mk 3 amplifier probably.
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27th Jan 2023, 3:56 pm | #5 |
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Deck looks more like a G99 motor unit to me.
I'm not sure how stable it would have been on that spindly shelving unit though! |
27th Jan 2023, 7:55 pm | #6 |
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The TV rings a bell, possibly a BRC job ?:
https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/wp-conte.../12/hmvds1.jpg Lawrence. |
28th Jan 2023, 10:25 am | #7 |
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Re: Spot the Equipment...
Hello, and thanks for the replies and Lawrence, the BRC advert.
Looking again and using the TV as a scale I recon it was the full-sized Sandwich speaker. I agree it’s an MK3 HG88. This was the big Brother to the Cadet, both of which, had a respectable phono input based, from memory, on a Brimar circuit. I remember, as a lad, getting TVs like that from the council tip, jumble sales and from friends’ parents. I suppose these were earlier 405 sets, which were dumped en-masse when the BBC1 and ITV went over to ‘625’ and Colour TVs became more affordable. As I said in the OP it’s just a bit of convivial banter. Regards Terry |
28th Jan 2023, 10:43 am | #8 |
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28th Jan 2023, 2:11 pm | #9 |
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The guitar's a Fender Telecaster.
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28th Jan 2023, 7:09 pm | #10 |
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I figure that is the ‘bit’ of a guitar one can see in the bottom right corner of the second picture.
I suppose Jeff’s favourite guitar was the Stratocaster. He’s seen with one on the cover of the Wired LP. I saw Jeff at Hammersmith Odeon (proper name) in 1980/81 on the There and Back tour, I think he used a Strat then. Mind you, that’s from memory and through the mists of time and other such things one associates with going to gigs such as that back then! Terry. |
28th Jan 2023, 8:17 pm | #11 | |
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I never got to see Jeff Beck. The last time I was at the Hammersmith Odeon would have been around 1971 when I saw Ike & Tina turner on stage there. Lawrence. |
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28th Jan 2023, 11:38 pm | #12 |
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29th Jan 2023, 12:17 am | #13 |
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It has Gibson written on the headstock. The model is probably the 'Les Paul'
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29th Jan 2023, 12:15 pm | #14 | |
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https://www.pictorialpress.com/music/jeff-beck-6/ But I've since found this: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-je...0&searchtype=0 Which means the one I was referring is a Fender and not a Gibson and looks to be originally an Esquire. Lawrence. |
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29th Jan 2023, 3:12 pm | #15 |
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Hello,
Whilst sitting here having cuppa I located the KRLA Beat magazine Jeff is reading in the photo on the worldradiohistory.com site Link to the Magazine (its half way down) https://worldradiohistory.com/Archiv...at-1967-03.pdf Link to Wiki history of KRLA (its just down the page) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRDC_(AM) Terry |
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30th Jan 2023, 11:21 am | #17 |
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