Post by poppastarr on Jul 14, 2011 22:11:55 GMT
Hi John44
I apologise that I have only just realised I did not respond to your post above. Yep, it was the Echolette we were always striving to own. The first one in Canberra I ever heard was a band called the Casuals who had two friends of mine in the group. This was in very early 1963, my band the Ekos at the same time could only afford the Watkins copycat and mind you it wasn't bad at all I suppose in comparision it was like owning a Mercedes Benz and a Volkswagen. We got our first Echolette in 1964 in my band the Castaways. It was actually Charlie Hall that got me thinking about this. And I will be honest my ego was slightly deflated when through this thread I found that Hank did not use an Echolette. In our case in Australia it didn't matter and as you confirmed we didn't even know about the others. The funny thing is, in early 1970 a younger muso comrade told me he brought back a Binson echo from the States, I never heard of it and completly ingored the subject as in my mind ' It wasn't an echolette'. I can understand how your Echolette disappeard by some low life as many a muso in Canberra had the better gear stolen. I have some photos of a couple of bands in my town in the 60's using the klemt echolette. If you like for your curiosity I can post them on your private email for a look. Don't think I better clutter up this post.
Val
I apologise that I have only just realised I did not respond to your post above. Yep, it was the Echolette we were always striving to own. The first one in Canberra I ever heard was a band called the Casuals who had two friends of mine in the group. This was in very early 1963, my band the Ekos at the same time could only afford the Watkins copycat and mind you it wasn't bad at all I suppose in comparision it was like owning a Mercedes Benz and a Volkswagen. We got our first Echolette in 1964 in my band the Castaways. It was actually Charlie Hall that got me thinking about this. And I will be honest my ego was slightly deflated when through this thread I found that Hank did not use an Echolette. In our case in Australia it didn't matter and as you confirmed we didn't even know about the others. The funny thing is, in early 1970 a younger muso comrade told me he brought back a Binson echo from the States, I never heard of it and completly ingored the subject as in my mind ' It wasn't an echolette'. I can understand how your Echolette disappeard by some low life as many a muso in Canberra had the better gear stolen. I have some photos of a couple of bands in my town in the 60's using the klemt echolette. If you like for your curiosity I can post them on your private email for a look. Don't think I better clutter up this post.
Val
