Vintage Guitar Scene

I bought this guitar not long before recording the “Revenge of the Surf Guitar” album. It ended up on 90% of that record. Before buying it I had borrowed it for a project and then ended up owning it. […]

I bought this guitar while I was visiting Sydney – I was living in Perth at the time – some time in the mid 80s. I bought it simply because it was the best sounding Stratocaster I had ever heard. […]

This was the first Vox amp I had played so I guessed it sounded about right and bought it for AU$425. This amp is on about half the songs from The Atlantics album “Flight of the Surf Guitar “and also the “Surfersaurus ” album. I was lucky as this is one of the best sounding Vox amps I have heard and has served me well. […]

Everyone remembers their first time. This was mine. Attending an auction to bid for a guitar.
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1954 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top (Serial Number 4 0809) I first saw this guitar in Sydney in 1984 whilst touring with a band from Perth, Western Australia. It was the ‘cleanest’ vintage Gibson Les […]

These guitars were made in the U.S.A. as budget instruments. I would think quite a few were made back in the day, but not sure how many original examples would have survived until the present day. These original examples are very rare here in Australia. […]

I’d been quietly looking for one of these guitars for years and was very happy to find this one. It’s a great sounding and playing Gibson ES-175D which was made late 1961/early 1962. It has 2 excellent sounding PAF pickups and is from what is considered the holy grail period of 175s. […]

Back in the late 70s / early 80s I was becoming aware of vintage guitars and their sound. This was the time when second hand (vintage) guitars were starting to appreciate in value. […]

Not everyone is a songwriter, just like everyone is not a singer, instrumentalist, sportsman/woman or rocket scientist. […]

John Joseph Rogers from Millicent (South Australia) and Grace Mabel Beatrice Fitzgibbon from Williamstown (Victoria) were married in 1917. They lived in a modest weatherboard house on a vineyard in Merbein, North-West Victoria. John Rogers had purchased the virgin land and planted it with grapevines – primarily sultanas – soon after the Merbein irrigation settlement was established in 1909. John and Grace raised 13 children on the property. My father John (Jack) was the first-born, whilst the last was Kevin, born in 1931, and later to be known throughout the clan as “Unk”. […]