Brooks

Thanx Nathan (GH cd's still available, see my sig). I hope to see a day when quality musicians can earn a decent return on quality releases, and the public is willing (or forced thru a new online technology) to pay a reasonable price. I still pay for downloads from artisits that I deem worthy of my dollars (newer quality artists, or established non-millionaire artists). That said, I'm guilty lately of using the youtube mp3 converter to steal old stuff that I paid for vinyl copies of years ago (Lynyrd Skynyrd and WASP are not getting another dollar from me, but I will always pay for John Scofield's work).

i liked my vox tonelab st better than my axe fx. way cheaper & better tube tones, although vox kinda skimped on the FX.

i've had a few drinks, so i will be crass and say that you got the best one! cheers

i have spent more than $1k maybe a half dozen times on guitars, yet not one of them was a keeper. same w/ amps.

my mid 80's metal band did that one; verses like the record, chorus chugga chugga guitars and 16th note double bass drums. fun. went over ok.

well then, rawk the hell outta that V !! oh oh..

this.

i'd go for something different, like a duotone or newport; or a special or artist w/ P90's or phatcats; or if you like fender-ish stuff, maybe a mirage 1 or daytona; or if you like shredders, a cali or chap. depends on what you're into music-wise and guitar-wise.

good luck broseph! i hear they need more killer guitarists in nashville . swing thru greensboro on yer way if you can, me casa es su casa.

i like the mirage 1 because the 1st few times i met/sat in w/ HHB thats what he had. it seems like it has all the good things that makes a strat (25.5", 3 singles, trem) but on an upgraded guitar (neck thru, no pickguard, blingy koa). the mirage 2 is cool but ventures too close to PRS for me.

big +1 to truth & soul, and diablo's new ride!!!

i took a sharpie and put a marshall logo on a dryer i had years ago.

me too. those along w/ moving pictures & signals remind me of my teen years the most.

nooooooooooooooo!!!! thats what god made epiphones for, for christs sake!!!! like seeing a tiger with a club foot, disturbing. make it right.

thats the 1st a'smith show i saw, rock in a hard place tour. great show until tylers mic went out, so he left the stage for a long time. dufay & crespo ran around shredding and putting on a great show. i presume tyler left to go shoot up, because he was a zombie when he came back; he leaned on crespo w/ his arm around him to share the mic, and fuckin' NODDED OUT WHILE SINGING, so crespo started singing the lead vox!!! tyler staggered off and we could see him throwing up behind the PA stacks from our side stage seats. although the last 3rd of the show was an unproffesional mess, it was kinda entertaining in a rubbernecking-at-a-car-crash kinda way. saw 'em at the texas jam a few years later when joe & brad came back, then ~10 years ago w/ kiss, much more together but not as interesting. not my fave band, but i do love ROCKS, what a great album.

so true. same w/ most rawk bands too (stones/kiss/VH/etc).

surprised ace made it this long!

glad you found one that plays good. as for value, our heros are dropping like flies, so just hang on to it for awhile, it will be more valuable when ace kicks the bucket.

when i was ~15, used to do a gamma tune w/ these older guys that i jammed w/ for a brief while, it was called "four horsemen" (this is pre metallica, a different tune). i tried to find a youtube link, but they've all been disabled. too bad, cool tune. i'm also a fan of the 1st montrose album, and agree that its the only sammy stuff i actually put on & listen to... r.i.p.

a guy i used to jam with had redone his squire headstock to say "stratocastrator", so you could try telecastrator

thanx gray. yeah, when i put this rig together i was having back problems related to my last job (where i was driving 300-800 miles a week, which resulted in a compressed disc). good news from being unemployed since oct 2010 is my back is in much better shape!

this is one of the reasons i like the tonelab over the axe-fx i had. tonelabs use a 12ax7 to simulate the power section of a tube amp; it "felt more real" than the axe-fx. #2 reason was that i liked the basic clean & crunch tones better (i don't use much effects). i also compared a rack carvin SS amp to just the power section of my crate powerblock (bypassing the powerblock's preamp via the rca jacks in back); i could not tell the difference at all between the class D SS amp (powerblock) and whatever class of poweramp the carvin is. later i compared the powerblock to stikes peavey 60w all tube poweramp. there was a slight difference in the high end (the peavey was slightly softer sounding), but it was very very subtle (my blind bassist couldn't tell the difference, and i probalby wouldn't have been able to tell except that i was switching the cables from one to the other). the peavey was 2 or 3 rack unit sized and weighed a ton. so, thats how i ended up w/ such a ghetto rig. yes, i am cheap! but i honestly set out to have a state of the art axe-fx system, but my ears (and my back) led me to this; this is my rig for the rush tribute, but when i jam covers w/ wizard sleeves i just use the tonelab, powerblock, and a cab; everything but my guitar and cab fits in a medium duffle bag (tonelab/powerblock/cables/folding guitar stand), weighs maybe 20lbs. the other thing that always seems to come up in these tube/modeler threads is folks totally dismissing one for the other, which i don't get. you can have a modeling rig AND a tube rig, they are just tools. you don't have to swear alleigence to just one.

yeah, that def needs to be mentioned. i hope someday soon to see that and daves FB rawkin the same stage.