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Something I found curious about Warren Haynes's rig was that he didn't use his Soldano. Instead he used a white Marshall. It sounded a lot like his Soldano though.

I prefer Mule to JB because Mule is more of a band, whereas everyone on stage with JB is there to back him up. JB's keyboard player was very good, mind you, and he got a lot of solos, but at the end of the day it's JB's show. Whereas Mule sounds like more of a cohesive band. Here's each performers' set list from that night (sadly, Ron Holloway's solo was off by half a step, he's in pretty bad shape physically): Mule: Hammer and Nails (Staple Singers cover) Rocking Horse Wake Up Dead Banks of the Deep End Game Face > Mountain Jam > Game Face I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) (Howlin' Wolf cover, with Whip It tease) Painted Silver Light (with Josh Smith on guitar) Revolution Come, Revolution Go Key to the Highway (Charles Segar cover, with Joe Bonamassa on guitar) Soulshine (The Allman Brothers Band cover, with Ron Holloway on sax) Bonamassa: Breakthrough Trigger Finger Twenty‐Four Hour Blues (Bobby “Blue” Bland cover) Mainline Florida (Eric Clapton cover) I Fall Apart (Rory Gallagher cover) Drive by the Exit Sign If Heartaches Were Nickels (with Warren Haynes) Last Kiss Well, Well (Delaney & Bonnie cover) Stratus (Billy Cobham cover, with Warren Haynes) A Million Miles Away (Rory Gallagher cover)

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Very sad news. RIP Ed...

This is what I was going for when I got the Tubesteader gear. I wanted to essentially platoon a bunch of preamps on the pedalboard and feed everything into either a power amp or the effects return of a combo amp. I didn't want a modeler or profiler - there are plenty of great sounding pedal preamps now. Right now I'm getting by fine with the Tubesteader Roy with the Valbruch Kaluna Drive in front for plexi tones. I'd gladly audition the Royalist in the same setup, but I doubt at this point if I would need both the Roy and the Royalist. Maybe.

I suffered from inflammatory arthritis in the 90s. It stopped me from playing altogether for several years. Believe it or not, a round of poweful antibiotics eliminated it. I've been taking some of the newer injectible T-cell inhibitors for years, and it has enabled me to play more easily. I have permanent joint damage in my left index finger, which makes it nearly impossible to play open chords like C, so I have had to learn different fingerings and voicings. Osteoarthritis is a different animal. I know some people respond well to glucosamin and chondrointin. I would get it diagnosed.

For me, owning a lot of guitars has zero attraction. I've owned four Hamers for years, and have no desire to own more. Amps and pedals, on the other hand... I am in constant search for the 'best' Plexi preamp pedal, the 'best' boost pedal. I'm 90 percent happy with my current performance rig but whenever Tone King or Friedman or Tubesteader makes a new preamp pedal, it's like a moth to a flame.

Nope. XVive says they'll send me a new one. We'll see. I've been using the Boss unit the past four gigs and it worked great through three of them.

NUX - first the transmitter died, and they replaced it under warranty. Then the receiver died, and when I submitted a request to replace...they ghosted me. So I decided to go with the tried and true brand... BOSS - when it works, it works great. But often it will sputter, rendering it useless. I'd say it sputters about 50% of the time, which led me to purchase... XVive - It had worked flawlessly since I got it last June, but it stopped working last weekend. Sounds like an open circuit in the receiver. My bass player let me borrow his to A-B test and his worked fine. XVive initially they'll send me another but they aren't returning my emails after sending them the documentation, and there's no stateside customer support. Assuming XVive lets me down as well, what do you suggest I try next?

Whoa, I thought this would be something from PornHub!

I have heard of Pirateship but never checked them out. Wish I had.

From Maryland to Kentucky.

I haven't shipped a guitar in about 15 years. Just shipped a Rickenbacker 12 string I sold on Reverb ($2650). Cost with insurance: $166!

So what doe THIS band make you want to do?