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My Greenstone of Doom is covered in leather. Looks awesome, but is a lot more susceptible to damage than tolex, one of my old cats thought it would make a great scratch post, I suspect it wouldn't have shown up anywhere near as much on tolex (if at all).

Pretty much all of the guitars, amps and pedals people on here fuss over.

Paul Urbana Jones used one for years until he got his first D28 and that man could hit a guitar! My brother had guitar lessons from Paul, he was as intense with his teaching as he is with his playing, my brother had a few absolute bollockings off him for not practicing. Nothing physical, bar a few ...

hamo wrote: ↑Sun May 07, 2023 5:41 pm If I knew more about amps when I had my Valvestate I'm not sure I would have moved it on.

You wouldn't have. The band my band in the UK befriended used them, they had crushing tone. We were their default support for any gig, we had a pair of block letter 5150s and didn't show them up.

That is cool!

Eric Gales is a motherfucker. This is 10min well spent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx5Zvi8K1vk I was enjoying that, thinking his sense of timing was impeccable, his sense of melody incredible and his ability to just make music with his guitar on another level. Then I finally noticed his right ...

Nuno's Schizophonic album is massively under appreciated, some great stuff on there. I have to say I'm not in the same camp, for the new stuff I find Nuno's riffs are all a bit pub rock and his solos lack the incredible sense of melody he has shown in the past. Rise I quite like, but the other two s...

I'm not the worlds biggest Metallica fan, they passed me by a fair bit due to my preference for the music that influenced them, however I've grown to like them over the years. I liked the first singles teased out from this new album and gave the album a couple of listens to from Spotify when it was...

Current playing an 87 Japanese made Squier and it's a mean guitar. Slight note to add to this, there is an 80's production period of these Japanese Squiers that have a reputation of being way better than they should be. Having played an 80's Japanese Squier that was absolutely sublime and one of my...

Current playing an 87 Japanese made Squier and it's a mean guitar. Slight note to add to this, there is an 80's production period of these Japanese Squiers that have a reputation of being way better than they should be. Having played an 80's Japanese Squier that was absolutely sublime and one of my...

robthemac wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:32 pm

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robthemac wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:21 pm I don't know what Ants has done to me, but this thread is now giving me strange warm feelings.

A dud batch of anaesthetic maybe?

Seems pretty effective I reckon.

He may have figured out how to control your bladder remotely. Is the floor wet under you?

I contend they haven’t made a good amp since the JCM800 so whatever happens can only be good The Astoria series were genuinely new, and are fantastic. Steve Dawson the designer did leave Marshall after they were released which was a shame. Marshall seem to be quite a cool company, the other guitari...

jeremyb wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:48 am If everyone played metal then we could all get by with plywood bodied guitars

With active pickups.

They'll become the new gibbons of amplifiers, expecting terrible things... Wouldn't that be Mesa now that they're owned by Gibson? I wonder how much Zounds were making off licensing the Marshall name for their speakers & headphones if they're now able to buy the company. Maybe the lifestyle/aud...

The more recording I do, the more I realise that sound engineers are the real geniuses of Good Tone The few times I've recorded with a decent sound engineer, they have gone to my amp, looked at how I've set up the tone and gain controls and gone "No", then set it up to sound good recorded.