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Old 27th Jan 2023, 1:24 pm   #1
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Hello,

I was looking up some info as regards the late great Jeff Beck and I came upon some photos online of Jeff in his Surrey, home in the late 1960’s.

https://www.pictorialpress.com/music/jeff-beck-13/
https://www.pictorialpress.com/music/jeff-beck-6/
https://www.pictorialpress.com/music/jeff-beck-20/

There is a Tape Recorder, TV, and hi-fi equipment..., and as a bit of a diversion, can anyone identify the equipment in the three attached links…? I think the amplifier is a Rogers HG88 and the speaker a Leak [Mini?] Sandwich, the turntable (which you can just about make out) is possibly a Goldring GL75.

I’ve not copied the pictures and put them on the forum for the obvious Copyright reasons.

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Old 27th Jan 2023, 1:55 pm   #2
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Speakers look big enough to be original Leak Sandwich - just like the pair I've mostly been using for the last 25 years - and the tape recorder is perhaps a Series 420 Ferrograph.

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ferrog...eries_420.html

Control positions are right, but handle and case look more recent - so, yes, something more like a 632.

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Old 27th Jan 2023, 2:41 pm   #3
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THe amp is a Rogers. Not sure of model given the angle and resolution.

Agree on the Ferrograph and Sandwich.

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Old 27th Jan 2023, 3:17 pm   #4
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Rogers HG88 Mk 3 amplifier probably.
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Old 27th Jan 2023, 3:56 pm   #5
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Deck looks more like a G99 motor unit to me.

I'm not sure how stable it would have been on that spindly shelving unit though!
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Old 27th Jan 2023, 7:55 pm   #6
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The TV rings a bell, possibly a BRC job ?:

https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/wp-conte.../12/hmvds1.jpg

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Hello, and thanks for the replies and Lawrence, the BRC advert.

Looking again and using the TV as a scale I recon it was the full-sized Sandwich speaker.

I agree it’s an MK3 HG88. This was the big Brother to the Cadet, both of which, had a respectable phono input based, from memory, on a Brimar circuit.

I remember, as a lad, getting TVs like that from the council tip, jumble sales and from friends’ parents. I suppose these were earlier 405 sets, which were dumped en-masse when the BBC1 and ITV went over to ‘625’ and Colour TVs became more affordable.

As I said in the OP it’s just a bit of convivial banter.

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Old 28th Jan 2023, 10:43 am   #8
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Looking again and using the TV as a scale I recon it was the full-sized Sandwich speaker.
Another size reference is that if The Mothers poster was an original it would have measured approx. 14"x20"

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Old 28th Jan 2023, 2:11 pm   #9
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The guitar's a Fender Telecaster.

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Old 28th Jan 2023, 7:09 pm   #10
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The guitar's a Fender Telecaster.

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I figure that is the ‘bit’ of a guitar one can see in the bottom right corner of the second picture.

I suppose Jeff’s favourite guitar was the Stratocaster. He’s seen with one on the cover of the Wired LP.

I saw Jeff at Hammersmith Odeon (proper name) in 1980/81 on the There and Back tour, I think he used a Strat then.

Mind you, that’s from memory and through the mists of time and other such things one associates with going to gigs such as that back then!

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The guitar's a Fender Telecaster.

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I figure that is the ‘bit’ of a guitar one can see in the bottom right corner of the second picture.

I suppose Jeff’s favourite guitar was the Stratocaster. He’s seen with one on the cover of the Wired LP.

I saw Jeff at Hammersmith Odeon (proper name) in 1980/81 on the There and Back tour, I think he used a Strat then.
Yes, bottom right for the guitar.

I never got to see Jeff Beck.

The last time I was at the Hammersmith Odeon would have been around 1971 when I saw Ike & Tina turner on stage there.

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The guitar's a Fender Telecaster.

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Looks more like my old Gibson that my son now uses
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It has Gibson written on the headstock. The model is probably the 'Les Paul'
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Old 29th Jan 2023, 12:15 pm   #14
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It has Gibson written on the headstock. The model is probably the 'Les Paul'
There's no headstock shown in the main photo I'm looking at in Terry's 2nd link:

https://www.pictorialpress.com/music/jeff-beck-6/

But I've since found this:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-je...0&searchtype=0

Which means the one I was referring is a Fender and not a Gibson and looks to be originally an Esquire.

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Old 29th Jan 2023, 3:12 pm   #15
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Hello,

Whilst sitting here having cuppa I located the KRLA Beat magazine Jeff is reading in the photo on the worldradiohistory.com site

Link to the Magazine (its half way down)
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archiv...at-1967-03.pdf

Link to Wiki history of KRLA (its just down the page)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRDC_(AM)

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But I've since found this:

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-je...0&searchtype=0

Which means the one I was referring is a Fender and not a Gibson and looks to be originally an Esquire.

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Yes you're right it is a Tele, if all you saw were the pics in the original 3 links then kudos to you - it is a pretty good spot as only a small portion of the body is visible.
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Yes you're right it is a Tele, if all you saw were the pics in the original 3 links then kudos to you - it is a pretty good spot as only a small portion of the body is visible.
Yes, it was the body and scratch plate shape that set me off.

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