You COULDN’T HEAR a session coming out of L.A. Oh, by the way, do yourself a favour and catch up with Henry Kaiser.ĪNY musician (who’s actually a WORKING musician) SHOULD know about how important GLENN CAMPBELL was in MOST of the 60’s west coast sessions AS an ‘ax man for hire’ in the WRECKING CREW with HAL BLAINE/JIM GORDON – LARRY KNECHTEL/LEON RUSSEL – CAROL KAYE etc… etc… But sometimes you catch a really big one, and relling it in is so much fun! As a customer once stated, it is like fishing, catch and release. Once I get them, I start looking for the next and the initial romantic attraction wanes. Cool things come and go every month, but this one was worth a mention for sure. So goes the lifetime obsession of guitar collecting. But wait… this one was a plexi Spectrum!! What the hell? Apparently they made 100 or so in Japan (where Henry got it earlier in the decade) so I’m guessing not many – if any other than this one – ever made it across the pond. Yes, a Teisco Spectrum is always in the top ten in my “trade-for” list. What did Henry have to trade? A Teisco Spectrum. He saw an older article from the My Rare Guitars website that circled around a particularly wierd guitar and was interested in trading something for it. Vintage 1960's Teisco Plexi Spectrum 5 GuitarĪ while back I got an email from one of the worlds best “out there” guitar players – Henry Kaiser.
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