The Sears archives note that The Sears Silverton guitar really made its mark in music history as the unofficial "first guitar" of guitar's icons. Chet Atkins, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix among many other...Silvertone guitars are considered prized pieces of many guitar collections, particularly models such as the 1963 "amp-in-case" guitar...
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In an interview with Guitar Player Magazine regarding Richards' technique for producing distortion using two amps, Richards' referred to some...little relics [I have] lying around...a Champ or a little Silvertone, a Kay thing..., which suggests that Silvertones have been in his collection for some time.
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