Sam Andrew
Sam Andrew's Gear
Interviewer: "Gear-wise, what did you [...] like? You played some Telecasters, but you were mostly an SG guy, right?"
Sam Andrew: "Mostly SGs, that's right. The amps changed more than the guitars, but the guitars changed over time. What happened was, we signed with Columbia Records, and Columbia owned Fender, so we got a lot of Fender equipment, amps and guitars. We got a Coral electric sitar, too, which was real interesting.
I preferred the SGs. They went out of tune because the necks were real thin. But they were good guitars. I always thought Gibson guitars were like General Motors, like a Cadillac or a Buick. Fenders were like Fords - light and hot-rodded."
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In a photograph accompanying an article by Peter Keepnews in The New York Times titled "Sam Andrew, Guitarist for Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dies at 73," Sam Andrew is seen playing a 1964 Gibson SG Standard through a JMI Tone Bender MK I into a Fender Dual Showman Reverb TFL5000D Head on a 2x15 Fender Cabinet (circa 1968-69).
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