Beat Instrumental Back issue No. 163 June 1980

Features
Competition — Win a Burns Magpie guitar worth £169 4
Saxon — NWOBHM unravelled by Pete Makowski 5
Steel Pulse — Jon Futrell on Reggae roots and dub recording 8
Supercharge — Tony Horkins talks horns with Albie Donnelly and Andy Parker 14
Styx — Mark Palmer finds Styx trying to drum up success in Britain 17
Pat Thrall — Pat Travers’ main man talks to Tony Horkins 22

Regular items
Getting Your Act Together — Gary Cooper with info on pressing your own disc 25
Tipped For The Top — Mark Palmer tips his hat to Mark Andrew and The Gents 28
Letters — The post with the most 30
Chris Gibbons’ Guitar Bar — Breaking the guitar barrier 31
Album Reviews — Plastic picks 32
New To You — New products and trade news 35
Shop Profile — Memphis Music 47
Studio Profile — The Skids’ Russell Webb swallows a Kwell for The Barge 49
Price Guide — Facts and figures 52

Reviews
Korg CX3 Organ — Hans Zimmer finds Leslie and Hammond together in one box 39
HiPercussion 56.11 — Peter Gill of Saxon gets HiP to Italy’s latest 40
Tom Mates Acoustic — English, hand-crafted and beautiful, and that’s Gordon Giltrap! 43
JHS Drum Synth — Tony Horkins jacks up and turns on 45

Very Good+ condition - 8/10