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Albert Lee playing a Silo ????

I've got the same promo pictures over on the wall at Beller's, signed "To Spike"

I found it interesting that Albert was playing a Silhouette, but my edumacated guess is that was before he got a signature model, but he was beginning to play EB guitars.
 
Looks like an early photo shoot, probably before the Alber Lee model appeared.

Glenn |B)
 
Ya, Albert played a trans-pink S/S/S stoptail Silhouette for quite a while before he got the original AL from BP at an EBMM Xmas do in the late '80s... Obscure factoids alert: in Europe, the S/S/S Silhouette in trans-pink was even marketed as an "Albert Lee model" before the introduction of the AL; it was pictured on the same page as the Luke and the Morse in the Music Man catalog, though it did not come with the signature headstock.
 
Jimi D said:
Ya, Albert played a trans-pink S/S/S stoptail Silhouette for quite a while before he got the original AL from BP at an EBMM Xmas do in the late '80s... Obscure factoids alert: in Europe, the S/S/S Silhouette in trans-pink was even marketed as an "Albert Lee model" before the introduction of the AL; it was pictured on the same page as the Luke and the Morse in the Music Man catalog, though it did not come with the signature headstock.
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any pics Jimi?
 
Jimi D said:
Ya, Albert played a trans-pink S/S/S stoptail Silhouette for quite a while before he got the original AL from BP at an EBMM Xmas do in the late '80s... Obscure factoids alert: in Europe, the S/S/S Silhouette in trans-pink was even marketed as an "Albert Lee model" before the introduction of the AL; it was pictured on the same page as the Luke and the Morse in the Music Man catalog, though it did not come with the signature headstock.
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What year was that catalogue Jiimi?

robelinda2 said:
i've got a book of Albert Lee with plenty of pics of the AL, and a few of his Silo, and baritone looking EBMM too. Alas, i dont have a scanner.
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What book is that please Robelinda2

Thanks for the info!!!
 
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