by JimN » 26 Apr 2021, 23:42
I once did a telephone interview with Ernie, which was published (after some adaptation to the "house style") in Guitarist magazine.
Ernie told me that for Move It, he used a Hofner President (a cutaway acoustic archtop with a solid pine table), plus a DeArmond pickup (either the "Guitar Mike" FH-C model or the "Rhythm Chief" model 1000). The pickup was fitted to the guitar with the supplied slide-rod attachment (known in the trade as "The Monkey On A Stick").
The unit was slid down to the bridge end of its travel for a treble tone, and had to be supported from th underside by jamming in a pencil eraser. The amp was a Fender Deluxe. That'd be a tweed model from the 1950s (of course) and little to do with the Fender Deluxe reverb as we know it today.
Guitarist magazine found a picture taken as a (later?) Cliff session with Ernie playing a Hofner Committee and so changed that word in my report (!!). But Ernie definitely said it was a President on the Move It session.
So... Hofner president... DeArmond detachable pickup... Fender Deluxe.