Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Cool! Never seen so many photos! :)
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Great photo's Nik!
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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Looks like fun but what are those big fat guitar shaped things with just a hole where the pick ups are supposed to go?
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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Well that was good fun!
Highlights
  • - Swapping guitar shipping stories
    - Finally hearing some MK V's (Mini and big) sounds pretty damn impressive
    - Irretrievably fucking up the Bohemian Rhapsody solo through a wonderful sounding Marshall halfstack
    - Winning the "who has the heaviest guitar" competition by a whisker
    - Actually hearing each rig in its glory with the rig rundowns
    - Hamo's magic box of pedals
    - Fudge and Scones
    - Hearing some of my Silverpistol pedals making people happy
    - Coming home wanting to play my guitar instead of firing up the soldering iron
Thanks very much to Darth Sabbathi for organising this, and the treats too! Really great to catch up with everyone and hear the rigs as intended instead of a raging cacophany
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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Awesome photos Nik! All mine look a bit shite... But here are a few of the better ones:

Hamo rightly suspects, this might get loud...
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Nice LP Nik!
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Note the secret tone scone...
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Sirvill thinking he should have brought more guitars...
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Polar Bear: you think that's loud mate, just wait...
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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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hamo wrote:Yes indeed! I'll post properly later from my laptop. Keen to know if Darth got enough cash to cover costs?
Close enough. That was fecking good fun - thanks guys! :thumbup:

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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Happiness is...

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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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slash-ed wrote:Happiness is...

Image20151818-12-31-54 by Nik Player, on Flickr
TmcB looks quite intrepid.
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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Thanks guy's, I enjoyed today but it all went so quickly!

Highlight for me and I think everyone was Darth's 69 Plexi. It completely stole the show and had everyone queueing for a go, Superb.

Other awesomeness...
Tony's (TMCB) rig I really liked. His AC30 sounded fantastic and his homebuilt pedals (Silver Pistol) were really great.
Tod's (Polar bear) Gibson's had so much Mojo. Especially the black e330 thingymaggigy
Scot's (Scooter) 5150 was fab. Such a usable amp on all levels. Not just an EVH machine, so much more. Lovely cleans and everything between.
As was Nik's (SizzlingBadger) Mesa. 9 amps in 1 and not a single bad one in there.

All great stuff though. Very good variety of amps and guitars, something for everyone I think.
It was great meeting ya'll and a big thanks to Darth for sorting everything as well as the baking! Scones! Such a civilised bunch. I thought it was great how we all did our own rig rundown. "What gauge strings are you using?" lol
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slash-ed wrote:Happiness is...

Image20151818-12-31-54 by Nik Player, on Flickr
It's our new boyband, it's called Insatiable Desire.

Here we are, assuming our sexy powerstances
GrantB wrote:Tony, your taste is, as always, very refined. Or as HG would say, "bloody awful".
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TmcB wrote:
slash-ed wrote:Happiness is...

Image20151818-12-31-54 by Nik Player, on Flickr
It's our new boyband, it's called Insatiable Desire.

Here we are, assuming our sexy powerstances
You are.

My fire.

PS - what's the big honkin' P90 looking thing you've put in my old Tele?
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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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Great fun day with a cool bunch of guys! It was great to hear everyone run through their gear without the volume wars, even though it meant less hands on time on the gear.
Everyone had awesome stuff, I liked all of it!
Thanks to Darth for organising!

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Oh Oh Oh!!! I forgot to mention Darth's Fuzz board of epicness!!!
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Re: Wellington Gearfest - 12pm, Sunday 18th October 2015, Goodtimes Petone

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TmcB wrote:
slash-ed wrote:Happiness is...

Image20151818-12-31-54 by Nik Player, on Flickr
It's our new boyband, it's called Insatiable Desire.

Here we are, assuming our sexy powerstances
:rofl: This photo's going in the scrapbook.

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