Iain Purdon wrote:I don't know. However, there are plenty of studio photos showing other instruments being used at recording sessions. I don't want to restart the Big Gretsch Debate but we all know it did turn up in the studio while never being sported on stage. Bruce often used acoustics for rhythm recording but electrics on stage. I'm sure Jet will have used what he chose on the day. I do know that Licorice used his own sunburst P-bass on Dance On but always appeared on stage with a bass in the "uniform" colour of the time. John loved his J-bass, and I'm sure it found its way into the studio many times during the Burns era. Likewise with the amps. If both Jet and Paul McCartney used the Abbey Road bass gear when recording, I have no problem with the "wrong" amps being used by Hank, and Bruce when using an electric.
I didn't mean to imply anything about amps being 'wrong'..
It's just that in that photo, the amps being used appear to be the earlier 15w models, whereas by that time they were using AC30s on stage, TV, film etc..also Bruce appears to be playing the Jazzmaster, not the red Strat he had by the time of the photo.
I can only assume the picture was taken late in 1961 just after Brian replaced Tony.