dave robinson wrote:JimN wrote:Jetblack56 wrote:...on the original studio recording of "MOVE IT" Ernie Shear was the "lead" guitarist and he played a Hofner President,probably through a Selmer amp.
The amplifier was a Fender Deluxe (obviously, the tweed TV front model, around 14 - 15 watts output and not either the front-panel Deluxe or Deluxe Reverb as we know that amp today).
The Hofner President, incidentally, was a carved top acoustic model and not the electric version. It was equipped with a DeArmond FH-C pickup on a sliding rail, held in the bridge position for Move It, with a pencil rubber wedged underneath to make sure it didn't move away from the strings.
Sorry Jim I got the info about the Fender amp from Roberto and got the names mixed up, it was indeed a Deluxe TV, Roberto had one in the Nivram room.
Well, it's bloomin' weird, but I was actually quoting Jetblack56 on the subject of the amp used by Ernie Shear on Move It, though I cannot now find the post which (erroneously) mentioned a Selmer amplifier.
I interviewed Ernie by phone over twenty years ago (definitely in the 1990s) for a submission to "Guitarist" magazine which they did use. The information about the Fender amp came directly from Ernie, as did the stuff about the guitar and the DeArmond pick-up (even the pencil eraser). When "Guitarist" published it, they used a picture of Ernie (not on the Move It session) playing a Hofner Committee in the studio and so changed my wording from "President" to "Committee". I'm sure they thought the photo was taken on that session (but it wasn't).
[I've found that post now - January 7th, 2010, about two pages above this post.]