Performing on a wide array of what he calls, 'el cheapo guitars,' Texas-based instrumentalist Teisco Del Rey (born Dan Forte) has brought the sounds of surf music to the Lone Star state. Also, James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins played a K-2L, which can seen in the music video for Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins song) as well as the inside of the Pisces Iscariot CD jewel case. Teisco Del Reys Songs Stream Online Music Songs Listen Free on Myspace. These were basically rectangular cabinets with dark tolex covering and large checkered grillcloths with the Teisco Del Rey and Checkmate logos on either corner. Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain used a Spectrum V. At least eleven solidstate Checkmate amps were offered in U.S. Hound Dog Taylor famously used a variety of these Kawai-era Teiscos, which he bought at his local Sears department store. After Kawai bought Teisco in 1967, they started to produce all the Teisco guitars, as well as their own brand, Apollo.
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The vast amount of controls typically an individual switch for each pickup, plus a tone or phase-cancellation switch, along with as many as five tone and volume knobs gave a wide variety of sounds yet were easily switched while playing. Teisco guitars became notable for unusual body shapes, such as the May Queen design resembling an artist's palette, or other unusual features such as having four pickups (most guitars have two or three). However, in the early 1960s Teisco products became increasingly unique. From 1948 to the early 1960s Teisco products often, like many Japanese products of the period, shared several designs with American and Western European products of the time including Hagström and EKO.