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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 09:24 AM CDT
A long, long time ago... I can still remember...
My first amp set-up that could actually be used for a gig was something I cobbled together: I saw a silver face Bassman head in a TV repair shop in Brookline. I went in and asked about it: someone brought it in to be retuned, and never picked it up. The repair guy sold it to me for $60. I then bought an amazingly ugly, how-was-this-EVER-hip Kustom tuck-and-roll cabinet, cream colored, with two Altec or Altec Lansing 12" speakers in it. Ugly and heavy. Thankfully it had big tough casters, although it also had metal handles that cut into your hands when you tried to carry it. That combination was ridiculous. I have not often had to play loud, but back in those days, for a brief period of time, playing in a barn, that set-up had impact and tone, both. Aided and abetted by a Big Muff Pi and then a Small Stone and eventually a DOD chorus, it sounded great... "We have to remember...when it's surrender that's called for, it's not surrender of your brains. It's surrender of your ego. It's a different thing." --Bruce Cockburn |
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 09:26 AM CDT
I also, for a little while, borrowed a very ancient Lafayette tube amp, just a little thing, that smelled of hot dust when it warmed up. It had the coolest singing sustain, coupled with a really neat reverb sound. I don't know what ever happened to it...
"We have to remember...when it's surrender that's called for, it's not surrender of your brains. It's surrender of your ego. It's a different thing." --Bruce Cockburn |
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 04:59 PM CDT
when I was a kid I wanted one of those Kustom cabinets real bad. they just screamed rock n' roll for some reason. |
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 06:18 PM CDT
My very first Amp was Yamaha 25W combo amp with reverb , I did
gigs with it everywhere and rehearsals and all the cool thing about it ,It looks like a small Champ fender ;-) for me at least ! «Blues is easy to play, but not to feel » (Jimi Hendrix) |
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 09:57 PM CDT
i've gone through a lot of guitars and amps through the years. the one thing that i have held onto is a electro harmonix big muff pi with the rams head. i bought it back in '74 when i was still in high school. it is in perfect condition and still roars. this model is now selling for $650 to $850...... i think i'm going to hold onto for a long time yet.
btw, Ed & Michael there is a early '70's kustom tuck and roll head and cabinet at a vintage guitar store a block down from where i work just waiting for you! another guitarist that i use to be in a band with had one and i had to help him lug that monster all over the place. well, you don't see that everyday |
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 09:11 PM CDT
Great tone AND great track. I reckon a lot of the goodness here is also down to plying with the fingers rather than a pick. Always gives more varied attack imho. Thanks for posting this! N News Is Gonna Break - just do it. |
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 09:59 PM CDT
My first amp was handed down to me by my dad when he upgraded to a brand new silverface Bassman 100. This would have been sometime in the early 70s. He gifted me his late 50s brown face Fender Pro with the tremolo and a 15 inch speaker. I didn't know what I had and a few years later traded it in for some solid state piece of junk (he says kicking himself).
Later in my teens I acquired a mid 60s bassman, the model with the 50 watt head and 2x12 cabinet. I then got a Marshall 4x12 slant cab. That Bassman head through the Marshall cab just screamed. I played a Les Paul Deluxe with those mini humbuckers through that rig. No pedals, no reverb, just a cable. I was in a band with some high school friends playing covers of Bad Co, Foghat, Thin Lizzy, etc. I would pull one of the power tubes out so I could crank the amp without getting too loud. Damn I miss that rig! Peace be with my friend Jerry! |
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 10:21 PM CDT
I played solid state for alot of years, then once i began recording, i went digital direct ala Line6 PodX3... I got back into playing live and decided to dive into tube amps begining with a B-52ATH-100 head and a Marshall 1960DM cab loaded with V-30's.. Now i run the same cabinet with a Jet City 50watt head, designed by Mike Soldano. I can get the hot rod 50 tone with a bit of Eq and presence....
The color on these Jet City amps is great! |
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Friday, June 08 2012 @ 12:32 AM CDT
I was never a guitar player and never had cool amps but I really enjoyed reading these stories
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Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Friday, June 08 2012 @ 01:53 PM CDT
I picked up a Fulltone OCD and have never looked back. It makes EVERYTHING sound better. On any amp from full stacks, to clean Fender tubes, to direct recording. I will use it to add fullness in front of a Distortion pedal or when I want a clean sound I will turn this thing on and roll back the volume. It cleans up so well and sounds so organic and natural.
And it roars on it's own if want it to. Basically, a "make good sound" pedal. |
