Hello all,
I just got my copy of Vintage Guitar Magazine in the mail and there is an article about KRs Mesa Mark 1. Will post it soon.

Please do, I'd love to see it.

Thank you in advance.

I need to learn how to copy it out of the magazine, scan it, and post it

Ugh! Good luck with that, I wish I knew what to tell you in order to it. Outside of just placing the pages on the scanner, I don't think there are many options. I've seen postings on here where you can tell people have done that.

Rockman seems to be able to post articles that look like perfect copies, maybe you could ask him what he does. Also, since you have a subscription, maybe it's on the VG website and you could get it from there.

Good article. It states that The Stones have bought 42 Mesas over the years.

If you have a decent digital stills camera, you can skip the scanning bit. Take a nice snap without reflection and voila! Upload & post the link

Good luck. Look forward to it.

Sounds very interesting...waiting for it

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The article talks about how KR acquired the first amp. Stu called the owner of Mesa and told him that Keith wanted his amps.The owner of Mesa told Stu that he needed money as this is how he makes his living. Stu told the him that the Stones don't pay for gear and they went back and forth until Keith came on the line and they then went back and forth.
They got into a discussion regarding tour riders, drugs, and money and Keith got the amp and ended up using it at El Mocambo and possbily the 78 tour. He had an Ampeg rig as a backup.

A Mesa collector that lives about 100 miles from me has that amp as well as a number of other "famous" Mesa's
I am going to reach out to this guy and see if I can talk to him. I;d love to see his collection.

Well,the guy who mentions Cafaro made a website about the Boogies,and yes he owns one of Keith´s amps (the El Mocambo amp he says) that i thinks probably he let to the magazine to made a special (i didn´t read it)

Keith Richards "El Mocambo" Mark I



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Stu called the owner of Mesa and told him that Keith wanted his amps.The owner of Mesa told Stu that he needed money as this is how he makes his living. Stu told the him that the Stones don't pay for gear and they went back and forth until Keith came on the line and they then went back and forth.

"We're the Stones, we don't pay for gear. It would cut into our profits."

cool guys.

Indeed, please post the article!

Mathijs

[www.vintageguitar.com]

dude please post this article....

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Indeed, please post the article!

Mathijs

I second the motion! hehe

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I´m waiting, i´m waiting...oh yeah oh yeah...

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dude please post this article....

yeh i def have to figure how to get to these articles. they dont see to have links openi g. for keith piece yes but also i saw a nels cline authored article bout LOVE AFFAIR W A JAZZMASTER and im blessed to have a 61 jazzmaster w the contoured back. these contour gits were only made for a short while early 61 and the previous year 1960 from what ive read. sometimes i see a shiny new white jazzmaster in a publicity photo of early touring black r&b vocal groups (keep ur eyes peeled o Rockman archive neister) ! ;-) . . . and i wonder if its mine. i got mine used at mannys nyc in summer 67. u know one of these days im gonna figure out how to play it. . . . interested in the keith mesa story. ha stu sez we dont pay for gear. ever the loyal road manager with his . . . what did he call them? his little 3 chord wonders or something? i can imagine him doing much the same in 62 when they had nothing but a hope that george wud follow thru and make some calls to labels and john wud throw them a beatle original get them goin mebbe have a hit and really get in the business. stu mustve been the guy on the phone and in the van and backstage coming up w a miracle every ten minutes and being frankly tough about it. tho it do seem the bit smarmy in 77. well these mustve bin those wonderful full throated warm dimensional monsters they blasted the classic HG tour with. i remember buying my fender twin and a wurlitzer 200 in boston in 75. my hip friends at the time said dohh u eediott theres this new company mesa that has a better more evolved but similar wattage etc.... but im conservative and insecure and went w fender. but i felt i wanted better master gain in tandem w channel volume pots so a tech hot rodded the twin . im curious to c keiths amps. this is creme de la creme gear porn.

working on it. Give me a day or 2

Hey Mr. Cafaro what about the article..?
I´m still waiting for it if you could post it here

Thanks!

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Well,the guy who mentions Cafaro made a website about the Boogies,and yes he owns one of Keith´s amps (the El Mocambo amp he says) that i thinks probably he let to the magazine to made a special (i didn´t read it)

Keith Richards "El Mocambo" Mark I

Just some more info....

According to Randall Smith (owner and founder of Boogie) 10 amps where build in one go in late January 1977 (marked February 1977 on the chassis), all 100/60 watt Mk1's with reverb, EQ and Altec Lansing speaker, five in hard wood and five in black tolex. He shipped four hard wood Mk1's to the Stones in Canada for the El Mocambo gig, 1 hard wood to an unnamed but known guitarist (Andy Summers is named), and the five tolex Mk1's where shipped to Germany, which at the time was the sole importer of Boogie's in Europe.

Keith's Boogie is A804, and number A808 now resides in Holland, where it is used in the studio and on stage at selected occasions by Tim Knol, a very popular singer and band in the Netherlands. In the first clip from Paradiso Amsterdam he plays a Telecaster Custom through the A808 Boogie, which stands right behind him. The second clip is the opening of Lowlands, with the Boogie, A Fender Deluxe and an Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar right beside it.









Tim's second album 'Days' will be out it a week, and he will play some major festivals including main stage at Pinkpop.

Mathijs



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Very talented guy, this Tim Knol

Check out his very Stones-inspired sounding 'Gonna Get There' here:





or the uninterrupted version here:

[soundcloud.com]#

Some time ago like 1 1/2 year i had a Boogie Mark IIA from 1979 for a few months and with my Teles it sounded from sweet(Beast of burden) to raw and crunchy (When the whip comes down) specially using the graphic eq...i loved it...

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I'd love to know more about how this collector acquired the Boogie amp from Keith, how much he paid for it, etc. It's an amp Keith used a lot in the past so I wonder why he would sell it.

I wish the old days could return...

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