mlivingstone
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I had included the following anecdote in a previous post :
and once tried to bum a strum on Jimmy Armstrong's (ex Van Morrison's Them) original '58, 59 in a drunken stupor
and once tried to bum a strum on Jimmy Armstrong's (ex Van Morrison's Them) original '58, 59 in a drunken stupor
Jim Armstrong is a superb Blues/Rock player well known here in Northern Ireland. Somewhat in the vein of Geoff Whitehorn for GB members (even looks similar).
I didn't mention that around the late 70's or early 80's Jim gave the original LP (can't remember if it was a 58, 59 or 60 'burst but certainly from the classic megabucks era) a rest and started gigging a Love Rock and Springysound after Harry Baird's music in Belfast started importing them.
In recent years I was told that he had finally sold the Gibson original .. and replaced it with a Love Rock!!
It also just occurred to me that its ironic that we buy replicas of the original bursts and then swap out the pups presumably to get a more modern high gain sound as I've noticed a number of people have commented that the Tokai PAF's can be a little weak. Its a matter of taste obviously but the irony is that the most famous users of the original 'bursts (whose influence presumably made them so desirable) used them for the sound and probably didn't give a **** about how they looked.
Odd isn't it?
Cheers
Mark