tbonesullivan

I do have a 2x12 with two Texas Heat speakers in it, which handle 150 watts each, and it's an 8 ohm cab, so it would only get 150 Watts anyway. I wonder how they would play with it. First I need to sell off like 4 amps though. I have no room for more amps OOPS.

My main squeeze now is an Avatar closed back 2x12 with Fane Avatar M65 speakers in it. I also have an open back 2x12 with Eminence Texas Heat speakers, as well as another with an Eminence Black Powder and Blue Tick hound. I am seriously tempted by the Hybrid as well, but part of me is still a tube snob. I also tend to favor real spring reverb. I know the Digiverb on the current ODS is excellent, and have some amps with it, but man I love springs.

I still keep thinking about picking up an ODS classic. The ODS II is a fantastic amp as well, but as I'm a "D-style" newbie, it seems better to go that way. They also are a lot more economically priced than the D-style amps from Amplified Nation, Two Rock, and others. I mean I could always snag an overtone special from ceriatone, but even they aren't cheap. I'd rather also get a Jersey amp. I just need to stay off reverb. Also gotta worry about whether my favorite cabinets will work well with it. I didn't stay off reverb. This is TEMPTING as hell. https://reverb.com/item/101268193-fuchs-tripledrive-supreme-blonde-made-in-usa-50-watt-d-style-ods-tds-tube-amplifier-head-w-original-footswitch

I've got a small stash, but nothing huge. I do have a bunch of SED EL34 tubes, and a pair of SED 6L6GCs, but for preamp tubes, I really got on the boat too late. Also, I'm pretty sure the audiophile crowd, who pay $600 for a 3 foot RCA cable / interconnect, are the ones most responsible for hoarding and driving up the prices. One of the guys who worked at the local music shop where I take lessons had helped clean out a lot of old music shops in NYC, and many of them just kept all the discarded tubes in boxes. The stuff they found from the days when tubes were just replaced routinely was insane.

Definitely something useful for everyone, especially as the number of tube makers continues to dwindle. I still mourn the loss of "The Tube Shop", who used to have email "telefunken@cox.net". I got some great ANOS and NOS tubes from them about 7 years ago. Not sure when they went away, but I think it was early 2021. I remember a few other dealers trying to get into ANOS, but I think those days are unfortunately over.

Yeah... I purchased a spare for every hamer I have that has the dang barrel jack, just in case they ever discontinue them. Not likely considering how many other companies use them for jacks on the side of a rounded body.

Yeah... only the original. Titebond II and III are intended for wood that may be outdoors, and remain rubbery, unlike the original Titebond.

I keep getting tempted by the Fuchs ODS classic. This will tempt me even more, even though I have no room or money for more amps right now. UGGHHH. GAS go away!

I mean, if you want to play Mississippi queen all day, they are PERFECT. Just not sure why Hamer decided that the HOT P90 for the neck and CUSTOM P90 for the bridge was the way to go. They were taller than normal P90s, so they had to route out more material. I guess they didn't want the "standard" low out put SP90-1 pickups.

Has anyone ever broken down exactly which songs featured the drum machine in the final mix, and not Beard? There are also multiple versions of "Legs", with the original album version sounding much more raw than the super polished version from the video. The CD I have of Eliminator unfortunately has the Video mix, but I think if you get a new CD now (while you can) Eliminator is back to the original mix.

Wow, I didn't know he had been sick. Reading that he had formally left March 2026, after leaving in late 2025 for surgery that was expected to cause a temporary absence. Jeez that sucks. Any, looks like the tour goes on. Thankfully Elwood has been with the band for decades already, and there's also lots of long time staff there to keep things going as long as BFG wants to. I just pulled up this rig rundown from 15 years ago and man did Elwood look different

Such a shame. Aren't they currently on tour? I don't know if this was a sudden thing or whether Frank had been sick. Still, he had a good run, and made it a lot longer than so many of their contemporaries did. Such a solid player, and him and the double kick drums go waaaayyy back.

I never really have understood the preamp topology of the MACE, or why when tubes were still plentiful, Marshall, Peavey, MusicMan, and others decided to go into solid state preamps with tube power sections. Is the "combine" feature of the MACE supposed to be like jumpering a four input Marshall?

I will admit, she's a case queen. I play my EBMM Steve Morse a lot more than the Axis or my Stingray RS guitar, though the Stingray does have a nice chunky neck. For me its always more the shape of the neck than the size. Like, I love the current Ibanez Wizard HP profile, even though it's kinda thin, because it has nice shoulders on the profile.

I had a choice of three, same model, same color, and I still think this is the best top ever made. I'm much more into "irregular" tops than the tight flamed ones. One of these days I need to get better pictures of the other figured top guitars I own, which really aren't many.

I've seen some pretty bad ones on Facebook, but this guy is far beyond what I usually see. These are accounts entirely built on getting clicks. It's possible that it's just stolen content, which is all over facebook. I mean, they are humorous, but I really hope that people aren't actually paying money for them to wreck their guitars. Seriously, "secret pick holder"??? What the hell is secret about that???

He really did make some interesting guitars in the years after he sold the company to Grove Jackson. I still remember how gutted people were when his home burned in 2018, as it contained a lot of truly unique items, and also probably pretty much meant the end of his guitar building days. When you lose all of your stuff and equipment its hard to start from scratch in your 70s.

Yeah, he's really the "father of the superstrat", or at least an uncle. Even though I think he sold the company to Grover Jackson in 1978 after bankruptcy, he'd already changed the landscape.

Oh man, that's sad to hear. The importance of his shop to the guitar community in the LA area cannot be overstated, and without Charvel, there very possibly would have been no Jackson. The list of people who had worked with his shop, from just getting work done to getting a full custom guitar, reads like a Hall of fame for LA guitarists of the 70s and 80s.

Bill had a heart condition and has had two heart attacks in the past, which may have something to do with this. There are also tons of other conditions that could lead to this. He was a heavy drinker for decades, which doesn't help. I admire his honesty, and always wish that somehow they could have made a final tour work, but honestly I think with his health and also the drummer being far more physically demanding, it wasn't in the cards.

The Five Watt World stuff is really great. I also love how honest he is about his own gear tendencies. There's one where he talks about having guitars that are almost "too good" to actually play, and revealed that his PRS S2 guitars are his number one players. He's also right that the Deluxe really is the sweet spot for vintage Fender amps, if you want to drive them hard to get some nice chewiness. Sure you can do it with a twin but you'll level your house. So many of the popular mods for Fender amps are fore the Deluxe.

Well, Thomann is Suing Fender. Being in Germany, they are also best positioned to take on the original ruling head on. The fact that Fender scored a default win in Germany and started going after U.S. makers was just plain stupid. Thomann is one of the largest music retailers in the world, and their CEO is worth 1.6 Billion. They also have a larger revenue stream than FMIC. https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/thomann-is-suing-fender

I've been trying to learn to use 9s for a while now. EVH used 9s downtuned to Eb. Jake E Lee uses 9s. Seems like almost all of the 80s players used 9s. My biggest issue is that I cannot, for the life of me, get good fast palm muting with 9s. I have no idea how the hell people did it. Billy Gibbons... he uses 7s now. Still sounds great. Learning to use 7s though will definitely take a lot of adjustment.

NICE! I've been seeing pictures of all the basses that Geddy Lee has been rocking, including the throwback Rickenbacker 4001 style bass. Always amazed at how nuts people go over Rickenbacker basses, including myself.

Not really news I expected to see, but I guess they decided that the "Beatle Bass" was something they wanted to keep being able to sell. Hopefully they'll be able to maybe improve the neck joint, though many may just want the OG. I'd also love to see more of their other short scale offerings more available. Maybe also make... GASP... some long scale basses. https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/hofner-has-reportedly-been-saved-from-bankruptcy-by-thomann-and-gewa-music/