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02/26/09 at 08:03 PM

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HAHAHAAHHAHA....yeah NICE stuff there!!!.... I used to play through a blonde bandmaster and 2x12 cab that was very VERY RAD!....never had a blonde bassman though. I'm VERY partial to 4x10's...that seems to be where its at for me...don't quite have the "roar" of twelves, but ohhhhhh that SNARL!!

As far as the gibsons amps....SHHHHHHHHH....dude, don't let the collectors hear that!! I have a '60 Explorer, that sounds VERY close to my '59 deluxe....and "worth" about 1/10th so I don't have to freak out in cold terror every time I switch it on!!

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02/26/09 at 08:09 PM

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I have a couple of the "amps that shall not be named" too. I bought them back when the "student" guitars that carried the same name were equally unpopular. I think I paid more to ship the little one than I paid for the actual amp.

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02/26/09 at 08:20 PM

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Very nice!!....how does that Les Paul amp sound? I have, I 'think', a bit later version, that I did a bunch of stuff too when I was in electronics school...I completely gutted it back to the transformers and then designed a ckt that is basically a tweed bassman tone section and a deluxe output section....never really go it quite right, its still a bit hot....BUT I 'remember' the amp did sound pretty great BEFORE I went crazy on it...DOH!!

Mine has the grill that goes all the way accross without the cool "LP" grill thing, these have always been one of my favorite looking amps!

I got mine at a garage sale, it had been covered (over the original covering) with a "turquoise" vinyl, that had then been very VERY badly spray painted black. I'll see if I can't take a pic of what it looks like now and post that.

I remember trying out alot of the gibson amps back when they were super cheap, and some did sound awesome, but alot of them had a very dark sound to them....but DAMN did they all look cool!!

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02/26/09 at 08:38 PM

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The 1955 GA-40 came from a garage sale. I think I paid $200 for it???? That was about 10 years ago. It sounds dark, like a Vox with a deep voice. It can bark at you like a big dog if you want it to, but it warms up and mellows out after you run it for a while.

The 1954 LP Jr. amp is a fierce little banshee. It only has one tone, but you can make it go from loud and louder. I can't imagine what some poor Dad must have thought back in 1954 when he brought that $49 amp and the $99 student guitar of the same name home for little Billy to practice on. He must have said "Lordy Myrtle, pack the Studebaker, we're moving to the country!"

You have to understand that I don't like too much treble in my tone. That's why I really don't like Strats, and I can't even stand to be in the same room if somebody is playing a maple neck Strat on the bridge pickup. The high pitched treble shreik makes my ears bleed. These amps knock that tone right down like whiskey on a scream.

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03/08/09 at 09:57 AM

#455

My new Acoustic Bass!

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05/25/09 at 07:32 PM

#456

Ok, got everything out for a group picture:

basses

guitars

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06/06/09 at 08:32 PM

#457

I'm not claiming I can play em!

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09/22/09 at 02:58 PM

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Have a buncha my junk on loan to a local studio and they took some pics for their website, kinda embarrassed to say this is a fraction of it (though the BEAUTIFUL 60's Ludwig set is NOT mine), and kinda shocked... never been one to really 'display' my stuff "collector" style..blah blah... and yes I PLAY ALL of it!!

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09/22/09 at 03:09 PM

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And here's what I am currently using live if anyone is at all interested... prolly not :-)... just happens to be sitting here in my office... crap phone cam pic

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09/23/09 at 09:36 PM

#460

the return of glam rock!

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09/23/09 at 09:48 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by deadlygammaray

the return of glam rock!

Lol! I hope, I missed the good ol' glam rock days. To WilliamBlaak: Those are all beautiful guitars and DGR is right. GLAM ROCK IS BACK! ... well not really but still
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09/26/09 at 07:18 PM

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Thanks Bored! HELL YEAH on the Glam Rock!!

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09/28/09 at 07:52 AM

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i'm far too envious to post what i think: that these are some awesome axes. i'm just thinking it

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09/28/09 at 11:34 PM

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Deadly... I admit I have a ridiculious amount of junk, but I DO loan out TONS of stuff to other bands/musicians for recording and such... And I want to stress... I am NOT some dumbass collector who 'hoards' his stuff... all of it is found and aquired for USE not just pointing at and bragging.

If anything, I'd like to think I've saved alot of this stuff from falling into the hands of collector assholes who had no intention of actually using it.

ALSO I want to stress, that I have scoured the countryside for decades, to find killer stuff at affordable prices... I'm not some rich guy who can just go out and buy this stuff.

Hope all that makes some sense. :-)

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09/29/09 at 06:11 AM

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i hope i didn't come across wrong - i myself own so many stuff i hardly find space to store it

and i know you are a guy who plays his instruments - as i do. although i have to admit, those toys look great hanging on the wall. but the greatest is always to take them off and play them.

i find a lot of inspiration and fun in regularly switching instruments, all guitars i have sound really different, even the cheapest (and i have some really cheap junk) have their own distinctive voice and i love that.

about 10 years ago i was totally frustrated by my guitar playing, i didn't progress at all (and wasn't any good). so i started to play banjo, learned it from scratch. after three years of exclusively playing it i switched back to guitar and have never put it down again since! it gave my technique a big boost. i'm still not very good, i'm just a hobby musician - but i love it!!

if i find time i'll take a new pic of my babies. i just don't have them all in one space, some are in the practice room, some at my partner's house.

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09/30/09 at 04:55 AM

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Hey deadly,

Naaaw.. totally not, it was me who got all ranty ha ha. But GREAT story!! Found myself completely nodding and relating to what you were saying!!

AWESOME on the banjo twangin. That is a HARD freekin instrument. I 'kind of' did the same thing when I was feelin in a slump. I started teaching myself bluegrass stuff with all of the finder picking and lightning fast runs, some of that stuff is CRAZY. But that really broke some new ground for me as well.

And HELL yes to the bit about all instruments having thier own personalities and quirks and 'qualities'. Sometimes it is the sheer funkiness of a wierd amp or guitar that can really be it's charm. Hell thats what makes Link Wray sound so good to me... those completely raunchy sounds from those old supro guitars. I actually got to play the wierd guitar that he used from the early 70's until he died when I was lucky enough to play a show with him bck in the early 90's. It was a VERY wierd guitar but damn did it sound cool. And as an aside, he was one of the nicest, persaonable people I have ever met. Was a HUUUUUGE thrill as I learned how to play listenin to an old record of his. woops... digression.

Another guy who has always been a HUUUGE influence on me sound wise (NO WAY I could ever even BEGIN to play like him!!) was Hound Dog Taylor, and there is no one who sounded as awesomely ragged and nasty as he did playing that old Tiesco with I think 4 pickups.... also he has FIVE FINGERS (not including his thumbs) on each hand!!

I was VERY lucky to grow up in a very rural area and get into "old" instruments and amps and stuff at a young age before the whole "vintage" thing went completely insane. It was the 80's and every other kid was into metal, and it seemed EVERYONE had an uncle or grandfather or some relative who played in a country band way back when and had these AMAZING instruments they inherited but "were lame cause they didn't get that distortion like dokken or whoever" and I would spend every penny I had on stuff.

It's really sad today that actual musicians can't even begin to afford even 70's instruments these days. Just rediculious that a 70's les paul or tele is in the MULTI thousands for even a beat up one.... too many colectors and worse yet "investors" driving the prices just stupid.

Alright, I am sure ya'all stopped reading this boring post ages ago ha ha. But Anyway deadly I am RIGHT with you with all of that!!! VERY good post... to me anyway.

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09/30/09 at 04:59 AM

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Oh and here is my latest one. Did some SERIOUS horsetrading for this... I pick it up thursday.... don't think I will be able to sleep for the next two nights

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09/30/09 at 09:10 AM

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a billy bo!!! awesome!!

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09/30/09 at 01:11 PM

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Thanks again Deadly!

IT was fed ex'ed to me, and actually is AT the Seattle location as of last night, but I can't pick it up till tomorrow!!!!.... so frustrating.... it is LITERALLY less than three miles from me, but I can't get to it!!!

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09/30/09 at 03:49 PM