Sheer nostalgia. I can remember, as a 13 year old kid in the early 60’s, sending away for this catalogue, (and others - Hofner, Fender, Gibson etc.). I was obsessed with owning an electric guitar and spent many hours drooling over the pictures, and wondering how long it would take me to save up 27Gns (about £28.35) for a Watkins rapier. Laughable really looking back but it was exciting, and led to great achievements for me, and I’m sure many others. Similarly the amps. seem so quaint. I owned Watkins Dominator and it certainly seemed to have more power than 17watts!
"Ditto" I too remember sending off for the Bells Catalogue. I always wanted FUTURAMA 3 guitar (the poor mans Fender Strat) I would drool over the pictures. I never did get the Futurama, but my parents did manage to buy me a Fender Strat and a Vox AC30 in 1963!!
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Laughable really looking back but it was exciting, and led to great achievements for me, and I’m sure many others. Similarly the amps. seem so quaint. I owned Watkins Dominator and it certainly seemed to have more power than 17watts!