dave robinson wrote:Yes The Searchers used their Burns guitars quite a lot. I first saw them at The Black Cat club owned by a very young Peter Stringfellow back in 1963, Mike Pender had the Burns Artist, John McNally the Hofner Club and Tony Jackson had the Hofner 500/1 bass (McCartney style)
They sounded great and had a very raw and earthy sound which I don't think they bettered by going onto the later 335 style guitars.
John McNally continued to play his black-sprayed Club 60 for a few years, occasionally going back to it from the Marvin and the (more-often used) sunburst Telecaster.
A few years ago, I had my ES175 (with flatwounds) with me at a local jam.
I got roped into doing some Beatles and other Mersey Beat songs - and with the bridge pickup engaged (which I hardly ever used on that guitar), the 175 aced the Mersey Beat sound. Perfect. You'd never have been able to get that sound with a Strat or Tele (or even a Les Paul) with 10-46...