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Meh. Dual horns are essential for that, "watery", Leslie sound, but it's just more gear to hump. Why bother when there are so many great Leslie pedals out there?

Saw that. Incredible build. It's beautiful and sounds great. He really went all in. But... It's just too nice to gig with (which, I suppose, is what he was going for). A simple cab with adjustable fast/slow/ramp would be ideal. I use a Motion Sound AR112 and it's almost there. It's just a spinning baffle in front of a 12", with no horn. Very subtle (slow spin) but you notice when it's off. Great 3D effect. But having both low and high ends spinning independently like his would be better.

I'll just cut to the chase... This is the greatest tone I have ever heard in my life. End of review. OK, a bit more. This Bad Cat ERA 30 is basically an improved Matchless DC30 or C30 amp. I actually owned 3 of them over the years (One was formally used on the first Third Eye Blind record) If you ever played one, you know. You can't get a bad tone out of a DC30. And, pretty much every pro player and studio seems to own a DC30. They are just great amps with 2 channels: a 12AX7 Preamp channel and a Voxy EF86 Preamp channel. This new Mark Sampson amp (RIP, he recently passed) is basically taking that DC30 and improving it. Both channels are now foot-switchable, a cleaner signal path, better EFX Loop, a tweaked tone stack and now, you can mix/combine both channels by foot-switch! You all know how much I LOVE my Bogners (Goldfinger has been my gold standard) Side-by-side, this ERA tone-wise just killed it. Killed it!!!! (I just sold the Goldfinger) The detail and depth of the tone is so amazing, especially the tightness of lower end frequencies is mind blowing. If you live in the slightly dirty clean to classic rock world, this is it peeps. I can honestly say, with 67 years and owning 100+ amps later... there is a Nirvana and I am here. Sure, it doesn't cover every base. It's not a Twin Reverb country clean or Mesa Rectifier tear your face off metal. It just does the middle ground like no other. If I had one thing, I wish it had reverb. But, I put a simple Electro Harmonix Holy Grail in the loop and done. I highly recommend checking one out. Here's a YouTube review that shows it and Mark Sampson's interview (Plus, I love all of Paul's videos, they guy is a monster player)

Love it! I've always thought it would be nice to have a more portable Leslie cab for guitars. I absolutely love my Mesa Revolver especially since the speaker itself actually rotates but it is becoming a little more awkward to haul around to gigs as I get older.

yes it did !

Kinda reminds me of Shakira’s Special.

Saw a more recent interview with Huff and he said he played on the radio edit version.

Even this old dog has new tricks to learn, assuming that the veracity of Wikipedia is unassailable: In the Wiki article, Coverdale referred to the Whitesnake's hair-metal replacements as, "The Vid Kids." Ah, them cheeky Brits. Ya gotta love 'em!

Yeah, that's true, unfortunately. Lizzy definitely went out with a fart. Ironically, Marsden would have made an excellent pairing with Scott Gorham. Maybe they would have had one last, killer hard-rock album to release?

Thank you. That's going to be fun.

Glad to hear you're recovering well! This happened recently to a drummer friend of mine. As a result of a conversation we had during a practice in my basement, he requested a blood calcium test from his doctor, and within a few weeks he had undergone a quadruple bypass. That was in early June, and he's back to drumming in the basement again, and will participate onstage at my upcoming birthday party. He is only 58, btw. He "feels lucky" as he truly was a heart attack waiting to happen due to his blockage, which was nearly 100% in two different arteries. I personally had what I thought was a heart attack scare about 18 months ago. It turned out to be a high blood pressure incident, and all the tests done on my heart and arteries came back okay for a guy of my age, 70. Your advice to get checked is spot on.

Sold!

TSC in the Web Model tone stacks in real time online. (the app is DOS only)

It worked!

Very nice.

Thanks, Ted! I'll try to post to the thread that kicked me out twice and see what happens. Wish me luck...... ETA: It worked. WooHoo! All you jerks are stuck with me now!! ...I mean....except Ted. You're not a jerk, little buddy....

At the time the ML Standard was over $100 a pop. A $35 rewind would have been a bargain even with shipping tacked on.

It's never been this cheap before. $1.99 A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap, by Rob Reiner: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4MFQDDZ

1996 model. Says includes hardshell case. Doesn't specify if an original Hamer case a call might clarify. The look of gold hardware is fine with me but I find it isn't very durable.

Time you pay shipping back & forth, you may be able to find another pickup.

This must be a new development because I somehow clumsily ripped through the windings on an ML Standard and asked if it could be rewound. They told me they didn't do that - was about fifteen years ago. Unlike my normal MO, I am sure I threw the pickup away (I normally keep everything, just in case, you know?). As you said, a great bargain and great to know for my future clumsy operations.

Incredible top and love the crown inlays but not the gold hodware.