squire5 Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Remember when you could spend hours poring over this?Wishing,hoping that maybe one day............? Look at the price of Fender basses. [url="http://personal.inet.fi/surf/lorse/bellcatalogue/bellcatalogue.html"]http://personal.inet...lcatalogue.html[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Bell Catalogue! Haven't seen that for a long while! Selmer Treble 'N' Bass 100... £94. Classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingBollock Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 (edited) Never saw the catalogue before, but it has made me miss my old Laney Klipp (p47). Edited January 31, 2014 by KingBollock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 My first 'shop window' for guitars I could not afford!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymondo Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 My first amp was a Laney 100w "Klipp" bought from a kays catalogue. I also ordered a Fal speaker cab too but when I got it I thought it looked cheap and lacked "street cred" (it had a 15" Fane speaker inside) so I sent it back .... I went to a Carlsbro dealer in Mansfield and bought a second hand 2x15" Carlsbro cab for £90 instead.....it weighed a ton and was a nightmare to get upstairs to my bedroom!!!! This was in !975 by the way if anyone was wondering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Does anybody else remember a very similar catalogue from a company in Manchester? Maybe this is the catalogue I remember and I am getting confused after all these years . I remember a girl who played in a punk band that worked in the same office as my dad gave him a copy of a catalogue just like this for me to look at not long after I first started playing. I can vividly recall the black and white photographs of Shaftsbury Rickenbacker copies, nondescript Hohner basses and , the crowning glory, a Sunburst Fender Jazz Bass with all the metal covers on in all its' blocked and bound 1970's glory. Looking back now , it's like remembering some era of Soviet-like austerity and shortages. This catalogue reminds me why I am not nostalgic for the 1970's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 At the moment Bell's is empty. Last used as a discount footwear store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stu Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 First place I ever saw a Park 100w Treble n Bass tranny head & wanted one instantly. Didn't know about the Marshall link at the time, but it was a Marshall I bought. A few years ago my son bought a s/h pair of the lower Marshall PA columns on Pp53 for £60. Between them they had 4 pristine Celestion Greenbacks & also similar in 10". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynepunkdude Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertbass Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 A Wem ER40 and Starfinder cabinet for me along with a left handed Wem Sapphire bass in sunburst. All from a Bell's catalogue and easy payments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAlonBass Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 15 years old, with a 30 watt Fenton-Weill Combo to my name, and I had just been offered a job with my Dad's Dance Band. Off we went to the showroom in Newton Aycliffe, where he signed as Guarantor for a Selmer Treble/n/Bass 100 watt Amp and a Selmer Goliath 15" Cab. £90 for the Amp and £80 for the Cab. I was out that regularly, I managed to pay the bill off in three months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobVbass Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 used to spend ages at Bell's Music (and Bootleg in epsom and ABC in Kingston) all gone now - Bell's used to have a fantastic mural on the side of it as well - wish I'd taken a photo at the time. Sadly it went downhill very quickly in the nineties selling cheap stock very badly set up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Admiral Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 The preface refers to 2% reduction in VAT, which puts this in 1974, so that Jazz for £288 would be £2,553 in today's terms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonBassAlpha Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Wow,my SG special is on p30! Never seen any literature relating to this model before! Mini humbuckers _ mmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squire5 Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 Yeah I thought that this would stir a few memories.I cant remember how it was possible to get the catalogue in the first place.Whether it was mail order or whatever,but I do remember having recurring editions.I know it was during the 60s when I used to read it because I was still at school at the time, and I would always have it in my schoolbag and me and other kids would pore over it during breaks.Ah heady days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bottomfeed Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 Geez! that takes me back.... Used to have a subscription... Me & My '1st band' mates used to paw over it, dreaming!... The guitarist eventually ended up with an Epiphone Coronet.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fasting showman Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 [quote name='squire5' timestamp='1391347323' post='2356011'] Yeah I thought that this would stir a few memories.I cant remember how it was possible to get the catalogue in the first place.Whether it was mail order or whatever,but I do remember having recurring editions.I know it was during the 60s when I used to read it because I was still at school at the time, and I would always have it in my schoolbag and me and other kids would pore over it during breaks.Ah heady days! [/quote]I recall a mate at school sent off for it (circa '82) from a Bell's ad in the Exchange and Mart. Wish I still had a copy, 'Making Music' magazine (A5 sized) was the other source of out of reach gear to read about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Admiral Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 [quote name='The fasting showman' timestamp='1391364522' post='2356267'] I recall a mate at school sent off for it (circa '82) from a Bell's ad in the Exchange and Mart. Wish I still had a copy, 'Making Music' magazine (A5 sized) was the other source of out of reach gear to read about. [/quote] I've still got some copies of Making Music on my bookshelves. I wonder what happened to it - subsumed into another mag I presume? I'll have them out and scan som pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fasting showman Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 [quote name='The Admiral' timestamp='1391367231' post='2356328'] I've still got some copies of Making Music on my bookshelves. I wonder what happened to it - subsumed into another mag I presume? I'll have them out and scan som pages. [/quote]Yep, me too. I've got the one with a review of the Steinberger bass, Hiwatt Maxwatt (the real one CP103) and a John Entwistle interview! Feeling very misty eyed about the music shops back then in early '80s Birmingham...I'll stop at this point! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschirons Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Brilliant. Not one cut-away acoustic in sight and some guitars supplied with "waterproof cover" Classic stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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