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"Now We're Thru'"
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The Poets: Not Actual 12-String Guitars

The ringing, echo-drenched electric 12-string guitars on the debut single by Scottish rockers, The Poets, are such a striking sound for 1964 and yet a strangely familiar one:  might it be possible that the band later reincarnated as Brian Jonestown Massacre? “Now We’re Thru’” by The Poets (1964)play at strong

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"Shooting Star"
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The Shadows: World’s Tiniest Rockers

Vintage Guitar‘s well-researched history of the Vox musical equipment company contains a particularly delightful side story about “wee” instruments that were designed and manufactured strictly for marionettes!  Peter Stuart Kohman has the scoop: One of the most oddball Vox orders was for a set of miniature equipment for singing puppets, specifically,

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