Guest Book & Fans' comments

Hi Mike, I saw your show with the British Invasion 50th Anniversary Tour at Mountain Winery in Saratoga, California last Sunday night. It was an amazing show and I enjoyed meeting you and the rest of the boys at the signing afterwards. You looked and sounded great! It was so cool turning my Persian wife on to your music thru the years.

I just wanted to tell you that as a 63 year old American bloke, I was in 7th Grade when the Brit Invasion came and it was literally the soundtrack to my life and millions of others. But, of all the bands, including The Beatles, The Searchers were my 'Go To' band. And they still are. As much as I loved all the other groups, The Searchers were my favorite. I even thought the name for the group was so cool and appropriate for your sound…..a kind of searching for love, or a place in the world kind of thing….perfect! I was instantly and instinctively drawn to your incredible Everly Brothers-like harmonies and the unique sound of your guitars, which I assume was a function of using the electric 12-strings with the Vox amps.

I always thought that you Mike, had one of the greatest voices in rock. I would listen to those early songs, headphones on, and hear every nuance of your vocal interpretations and phrasings; the way you would pronounce words in the lyric; the way all your voices blended together.

Hell, I still catch that BOUNCE or MOVEMENT, for lack of a better term, when your harmonies mesh on the word 'Bound' (as in "…BOUND FOR MOVING ON…”) in your version of the great 'Four Strong Winds'. In my estimation, by far, the best version!!!!! It changed my life. 'Don't Throw Your Love Away' was 'our song' for my first girlfriend and me. And coincidentally, our other song was 'Bad To Me' played by Billy J Kramer just the other night. What memories. What innocence!!!!!

I guess my favorite album (and I don't remember the name of it?), contained amazing gems like the beautiful 'Each Time' , 'Four Strong Winds', 'You Got no Love', and the really exquisite 'Till I Met You' (one of the great love songs of all time). What can I say? I'll never forget seeing you all on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. I remember really enjoying the drumming and antics of Chris Curtis. What charisma! I remember hearing 'Bumble Bee' (the one you ridiculed the other night) for the first time and just wondering how you got that sound? I couldn't tell if it was the organ or the guitar or both getting that rich warm ANALOG sound. How did you get that sound?

I could go on and on. But, I'll close by saying that ever since I first heard your band and the others, like millions of guys/girls, I started playing guitar and have ever since. Again, I would love to know what the recipe was on how you got that distinctive sound? Was it simply the Vox amp and the 12-String? Were there other tricks? Beside being a guitarist, I'm a amateur sound engineer with my own studio in my house, so I'm always trying to pick a part sounds, almost like an alchemist, fumbling around with the knobs blindly hoping to strike gold. And I even have an old Vox AC30 hoping that I'll someday know how to use it to approximate your sound.

Thank you so much for the great music and inspiration!

Regards, absolutely your greatest fan, Tim Goodrich San Francisco.

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