Vox Bulldog Guitar

[Dennisthe Menace]

Thanks Mr.Bill!
I just did a check, and there it was. It seems that Vox also decided to
change the neck on this model, or at least the Headstock design.....

[Mr. Bill]

I guess they needed more weight on the headstock to offset the weight of all the FX!

[brutus]

Lets not forget the outside of sanity genius that is the Guitar Organ
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[JimPage]

The Brutus wrote:
>>Lets not forget the outside of sanity genius that is the Guitar Organ . . .

Oh, I will never forget my first sighting of the Guitar Organ, and neither will my best buddy, John, who was skipping school with me that day to drive from Naples, Florida, to visit the REAL music stores in Tampa.

We could not believe what we saw and heard that day!!!

I can't remember the year; it must have been very late 1960s.

It was the dangdest thing I had ever seen in the way of a guitar. Prior to this, the Echoplex unit was the most amazing thing we had ever encountered. Our minds were well and truly blown.

--Jim

[101Volts]

Brutus: Dave Gregory of XTC played one of those, or a copy.

[TerryTNM]

110 volts,

In the picture the Guitar Organ is the one on the left. Quite unlike any other guitar. The neck was aluminum. The frets were actually electric contacts acting like a switch.
Not unlike pressing down a key on an organ. It did sound like an organ. Although it had the same general shape as the Phantom series guitars it was a
totally different animal.

The other is a Phantom 12.

The one in the video is a Phantom 6 or a copy.


- Terry

[Sixstringer]

I remember seeing a band called Gomez on MTV and the guy was playing a Bulldog like mine. I looked for the video to post but I couldn't find it. I have no idea what song it was.

[JimPage]

Terry wrote:
>>The frets were actually electric contacts acting like a switch.

Yes; I remember each fret being sectioned into six seperate contact points, so I guess if there were 21 "frets" this thing had 126 contact points or so on the neck. And a TON of knobs and switches on the body.

It sounded great and I wanted one badly. Problem was it was hideously expensive compared to a normal guitar, or at least the one that I saw was.

--Jim

[101Volts]

Wow, I never knew that. When I first saw the picture I thought it was a Teisco because I had seen pictures of Teisco's copy. Now I'm going to see if there are demonstration videos of the Guitar Organ on Youtube.

Edit: Here's a video.

Austin

[brutus]

Thanks for vid Austin. That Jennings is one out of sight hipster, to bad Vox was kinda swiped from him.
Now, could you play the G.O. as just a electric guitar?
Great post Sixstringer, do you have some photos of the Bulldog and any other Vox stuff? It would be great to see the Bulldog up close. If only Vox and Mosrite had teamed up, could you imagine that!