The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #47068   Message #1169307
Posted By: GUEST,woodsie
23-Apr-04 - 04:17 PM
Thread Name: Eko Guitars
Subject: RE: Eko Guitars
Eric The Viking

The shop "around the corner from the town hall" in Brixton was Cramer's (or Kramer's) in Acre lane I bought my first guitar there by paying weekly installments (from my paper round) for months finally picking it up when The 21 guineas! (That's how they priced them in those days)was paid just before Christmas 1969. It was a Jedson semi acoustic with f holes an' all! In 1971 I swapped it for an EKO jumbo. a couple of years later I purchased a Folk Ranger 6 from Ally's Owl Shop, near Streatham ice rink - it was a part exchange deal involving several mint condition copies of Cream's "Wheels Of Fire" Abums (mono deletions nicked from work at the time) + £10. I don't know what became of those guitars, I was in a lysergic/amphetamine haze back in my foolish wasted youth - but I agree they were great guitars.