Retro 1970s Disco Speakers. August Made In England Dave Simms, Simms Watts

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hear we have for sale is a pair of 1970s August Disco Speakers. They are extremal rare Pair, Made by Dave Simms for a very very short time before his business was bought by EMI. they come with some tatty covers. one speaker has been changes as per photos. it looks as if it was changed for an almost identical spec speaker I have never seen a pair for sale. hears a write up on Dave Simms. Nobody knows the business better than Dave Simms, and the business is glad to have him back. For years, Dave was a popular music dealer in West London operating from a small shop — MBC Music — in South Ealing and doing every passing musician one good turn or another. It was really those good turns that lead Dave away from the players. Because Dave cares , musicians started to patronise his shop with unusual regularity so when he and a designer — Rick Watts — started to knock out a few amps proudly called Simms-Watts, things started to go a bit well. Before he could turn round, Dave had one of the most successful amplification businesses in the U.K. and EMI bought him out. For the past few years he's been a director of the EMI section that paid lots of loot for Simms-Watts and he's also been the sales director of the musical instrument distributors Rosetti and Co. Today he's back in the shop. Not the same shop exactly, one just up the road in The Grove, off Ealing High Street in West London. The Dave Simms Music Centre is quite a big shop, much bigger than the original MBC premises "we've still got that for a warehouse" — and the second time around Dave knows most of the answers before he discovers the problems. "Even if I say it myself," grins Dave over his trademark, tinted glasses, " I had a lot of varied experience. I started gigging as a player when I was just over 14 and I first opened a shop in Ealing selling secondhand gear. I didn't carry any new items at all except for strings and plectrums and that shop did very well. Then we started making our own gear and that started going very well and from that start we developed the whole Simms-Watts thing. When EMI bought us out they asked me to stay on as a director because they naturally wanted my name on the board. They wanted me there for seven years, I said 'No, how about a couple?' In the end we agreed that I should stay for three years. During that time I became sales director of Rosetti and Co. and I really travelled the world learning about exports, meeting the people and trying to get myself known. The thing about exports is that you have to go to the places and get to know the language. I keep cassettes in my car so that I can practice on my way to work." All that experience has now been poured into Dave Simms Music Products, the company which umbrellas all Dave's activities. It's all centered around Project Electronics, the company through which Dave manufactures August amplification, disco equipment and lighting. The August gear is naturally featured heavily in the Ealing shop and Dave is currently tying up deals that will make the equipment available around the country. But isn't he repeating the pattern that took him away from direct contact with the customers? collection only.

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