JEEZ guys...I'll be the first to admit that I never knew of/watched everything Jimi did/played. I mean I was too busy playing New Orleans Rhythm and Blues to get past the first coupla albums. Did wanna make me burn my guitar, though and not just on the surface.

Doc,
Thanks I already knew that. My first amp was Dano DM10. I also own an original 57 U1. Very cool guitar. The Silvertones had different headstocks.

My first amp was the Dano Centurion.

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My first amp was in the guitar case that came with my black/white Silvertone guitar!

Five of us owned Danos. Three chose the then new Convertible. I had the DC short horn in black which had a more conservative pickguard than what is known as the 'Page' guitar. Another had the single pickup DC short horn in bronze. There must be some kind of error in dating because I know for sure that owned that guitar by mid-'59 and when I was selecting my guitar I was contemplating the Guitarlin but didn't have enough saved to match the price. We actually bought them wholesale from a neighbor who owned a musical instrument and supply company in lower Manhattan. We paid 50% off catalog price for them. So these guitars were already being manufactured and shipped ahead of the times they seem to appear in these vintage catalogs. We had three Centurions in this gang of five and I also owned a Danelectro reverb. What ever happened to this gear is lost in the mists of time, though I do have one photo of myself with that black guitar.

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Here is the picture of one like my dad bought me Doc. He always shopped Sears! Model 1448
http://guitarhunter.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... uitar.html

Scroll down to it.

A interesting read from the comments section of that page.

http://www.pen4rent.com/pen4rent/tribute.aspx

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That's some story Niki! Thanks for the link!

I remember when those happened. I used to prowl the Sears Catalog every year when the new one was issued. Our guitars predate that model by about 3 years.

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Well, I'm a somewhat younger stud!

When you read down the list of dates of innovation, you come to the Guitarlin which is said was introduced in 1958. So I know that for a fact because I saw that guitar in the warehouse when we went shopping about 6 months later.

HOWEVER.....the FIRST time I EVER saw that guitar it was on American Bandstand, on the shoulder of Link Wray, the day hei ntroduced
"Rawhide".

It was my perception that it was the guitar which was responsible for that sound which is one of the reasons I wanted it but it was just out of my price range. We were to ultimate find out otherwise, many years later, how Link Wray created the early fuzz tone by holing the speaker cone.

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I still play my 57 Dano and my 63 Supro Martinique is still one of my favorite guitars. Never had the amp in case but I always wanted one as a kid.

Hindsight will always live after men. Foresight is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Doc.

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Nikininja, In regards to Janie Hendrix, this is all I know, I heard her speak with some other attorney guy on a radio show in 2004. I believe her husband might have been on the show also (It was something on KLOS 95.5 FM with an anouncer named Bob Coburn) she was promoting a Hendrix Tribute CD that had come out at the time. She spoke saying that she was Jimi's sister, etc. blah, blah, blah! The big however is I read a book about Jimi by Sharon Lawrence who was a music journalist and friend of Jimi Hendrix, the book is called Jimi Hendrix the man, the magic, the truth. About 4/5 into the book, after Jimi's gone, she goes into the aspect of the Hendrix business afterworth. From what I read it seems an aging Al Hendrix signed off everything to Janie and she took others to court to boot and won! One of the things I find that is scary about it is that Janie Hendrix is not a blood relative of Jimi or Al Hendrix! Somebody email me and tell me how full of it I am or correct me because that is what I read. Also I believe on the radio interview Janie also mentioned Miss Lawrence in a less than flattering way. I just like to pass it on not to be a hater and buy Jimi's Art, I do! Don't deprive yourself Baggy's Rehearal!

[quote="JACSTRAT"] From what I read it seems an aging Al Hendrix signed off everything to Janie and she took others to court to boot and won!

Considering the aforementioned. then the matter is of public record and all the proofs would found therein, in that she prevailed. (This is a step-sister I understand.) It would be one helluva search but would certainly answer the question.

Meanwhile, go to www.ultimateguitar.com and search "News". You Hendrix followers will have a stroke with what's coming down the pike from Janie and Company in the exploitation department. The commentaries by the readers are as well worth the time.

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