by cockroach » 28 Jan 2011, 12:30
Speaking from experience, and being a teenager who wanted to rock hard at that time (no Shadows, but the Kinks, Who, Cream, Hendrix sounds etc)the problem with a lot of guitars back then ('60's) was the pickups...
Both Matons and Hofners didn't cut it for me, but the Burns Tri Sonics were up there with Fender pickups for power and tone.
The Matons sounded week, thin and sharp, and the Hofners sounded like banjos...even some of the early Jap guitars had more guts- my mate's ghastly early model Teisco solid used for rhythm blew my Club 40 (the lead guitar) away!
It wasn't until about 1969/70 that I was earning enough that secondhand Gibson, Fender or Gretsch models became affordable...an ES 125TDC, an Esquire, and an Anniversary in a period of about two years in fact.
See Bill? I got a Burns reference in, which justifies using this thread!