One Of The RAREST & Most SOUGHT AFTER Amps | Watkins Joker
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- While we’ve had a Watkins Dominator amp in our showroom before, this is the first time we’ve had not one, but two Watkins Joker amps! Previously owned by Richard Fortus and Josh Klinghoffer, respectively, these Watkin Jokers were the first-ever amps to feature a Master Volume control and come equipped with a tube-driven tremolo circuit, plus a tube-driven tape-echo. As far as we know, this is the first time two Watkins jokers have been recorded in stereo!
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DID YOU KNOW?
The company was co-founded by musician Charlie Watkins and his brother Reg Watkins in 1949, initially as a record shop in Tooting Market, London. Two years later the brothers moved to a small shop in Balham and began selling accordions and guitars. Watkins Electric Music was one of the first to manufacture and sell guitar amplifiers in England, introducing the Watkins Westminster in 1954, followed up by the V-fronted Dominator.
In 1958, Watkins Electric Music introduced the Copicat, one of the first-ever portable tape echo units. The shop sold the entire first production run of 100 Copicats on the first day, including the very first Copicat sold to Johnny Kidd of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, whose guitarist used it on the group's UK hit song "Shakin' All Over".[2] The Copicat would become one of the company's most successful products, with various different Copicat models released over more than 50 years. By the end of the 1950s, selling amps, echo units, and a line of solid-body electric guitars designed by Reg, Watkins Electric Music was one of the top 3 companies of the U.K. music trade.
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Chapters:
00:00-01:15 Watkins Jokers In Stereo (Wicked Game) | 1963 Fender Jaguar
01:16-02:55 History of Watkins(Watkins Electronic Music)
02:56-03:35 Crunchy Tones | Epiphone Riviera
03:36-05:19 These Amps Were Owned by Rock Stars!
05:20-06:07 "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" | Epiphone Riviera
06:08-07:20 Built in Tape Echo
07:21-07:55 "Run Like Hell" Pink Floyd | 1960 Fender Esquire
07:56-08:41 Watkins becomes WEM
08:42-09:51 Rolling Stones | 1960 Fender Esquire
09:52-10:57 The More You Knowledge
10:58-11:29 "Breathe" Pink Floyd | 1960 Fender Esquire
11:30-11:53 Outro
11:54-13:33 Watkins Jokers in Stereo Some More | Fender Stratocaster 1970
13:39-15:19 More Stereo Goodness! Orangewood Rubber Bridge Acoustic
TRANSCRIPTION HIGHLIGHTS:
So these are both extremely rare as you were saying now this one actually used to belong to Richard Fortus pretty cool and this one actually used to belong to Josh Klinghoffer and the case as well so it seems like you know top players really like these amps yeah exactly it speaks a lot to the Quality these things that the two we have both belong to verified Mega Stars.
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Nathaniel's playing... man oh man, fantastic indeed!!
Awesome amp! Fun fact: 1953 Ray Butts Echosonic amp (Scotty Moore used it on Mystery Train) was the first amp with built in tape echo
Cooler than a penguins ring piece 🤘
Didn't Scotty Moore have an amp with a built-in tape delay?
Said it was a nightmare to maintain.
I remember seeing The Move in Wexford , Ireland with a whole backdrop of WEM speakers
i would love to see Pisionic audio go through these amps!
That would be quite expensive
Nathaniel and this amp is like Ham& Cheese.
it gives me the farts
WOW, that tremolo! 😎🎸
wowzers. amazing tone. obviously made even better under Nathanual's hands
That is a great sounding amp
Thanks for watching!!
Can I ask about those shoes?
Ray Butts echosonic was the first built in tape echo I'm pretty sure. Sorry for being a nerd
Is that the one Scotty Moore played?
@@CaptainCraigKWMRZ yep
Love you guys but whenever I call you I have to wait through to the end of the dial to actually get a department which is weird
Is that a Lucy Rose song?
Dan are those the Thursday Boots?
Lads what's this heartbeat effect or is this a track??
That's from an old tape in the amp. Where the tape loops.
Not bad , have you got one in green
Now that would have been amazing! We’ve never seen a green one!
But do you have THREE PS3S?? 😏🙂↔️