Watkins Electric Music

Watkins Electric Music

Watkins Electric Music (WEM) is a British company known for manufacturing guitar, bass and PA amplifiers and the CopiCat tape echo machine. The company was founded in 1949, initially as a record shop in Tooting Market, London, by Charlie Watkins and his brother Reg Watkins. Two years later the brothers moved to a small shop in Balham, London and began selling guitars and accordions.

In 1967-1968 The Who used the WEM (Watkins Electric Music) Audiomaster five-channel mixer and multiple WEM 100-watt transistor PA amplifiers chained together as their sound system. [ [http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/equip-pa.htm The Who PA and foldback] ] In the concert movie (1972), the band is shown using WEM PA equipment as it performs in the ruins of an ancient amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy.

The company still exists in 2007, focusing on accordions and a new version of the CopiCat tape echo units. It is still run by Charlie Watkins, 58 years after founding the company.

References

External links

* [http://www.wemwatkins.co.uk Watkins Electric Music official web site]


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