Albert Lee playing a Silo ????

[Spudmurphy]

I just bought these pics off ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...R40&satitle=7422201356&fvi=1#ebayphotohosting

One shows Albert holding a Silo and one of Steve Morse with a very smart haircut

Whats the low down on the Albert Photo - any historians out there?

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

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.

 

[GWDavis28]

Looks like an early photo shoot, probably before the Alber Lee model appeared.

Glenn |B)

 

[Jimi D]

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.

 

[Colin]

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.

any pics Jimi?

 

[robelinda2]

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.

 

[Spudmurphy]

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.

What year was that catalogue Jiimi?

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.

What book is that please Robelinda2

Thanks for the info!!!

 

[robelinda2]

the book is Advanced Country Guitar.