General Music Chat

I had 2 original pignose amps. battery power. great for running stereo from the rockman. there's a couple things I miss. I still laugh thinking about going to a jam with the little guys and the other players look at my little amps. wtf are those little things... then they heard all this sound come out. and my casio midi guitar. I wish I'd kept that. went looking on ebay for one and only one I found was $2500!!

I had a Yamaha 30th anniversary Maple Custom drum kit.....8/10/12/14/16 toms, 22 bass, and an incredible 5x14 snare, all in a gorgeous red sparkle lacquer. They sounded just ridiculous, and were truly beautiful drums. They sat in the showroom of the local music store for about a year and a half, and I finally saved up enough $$ to buy them.....I was the original owner.

One word: D I V O R C E !!!!!!

I just about cry when I think about it!

Crown DC 300a
Crown OC 150
Crown IC 150
ESS Heil Air Motion Transformer Monitors
Empire 698 Turntable with a Empire 2000E/III Cartridge
Generation One of the Koss Pro 4a headphones.

It was being shipped from Germany to the U.S. and found itself on the bottom of the Alantic Ocean. Bummer.

Ugh.

My first PA was from Traynor. It had a big power amp, a small 4-channel powered mixer, four main speakers each consisting of a 12 and 10 inch speakers and a horn, 2 small monitors. The only thing I have left is the power amp which I haven't used in many years (hope it still works). I really miss having the four main speakers. They were very versatile and sounded great. I could use them for monitors (side fill) today. I also owned at one time the 142 Fender Bass ever made (1952). We think at one time it had been refinsihed which reduces its value. I believe they call it a Telecaster Bass. The body was one big square hunk of wood, the neck very thick. It sounded great but wasn't that easy to play as my current bass. When I moved from New Jersey to Kansas City I sold it to my old guitar player. I miss having it in some ways, but I never really had an emotional attachment to it. I very much like my current bass (Fender Precision Special solid walnut throughout, active elctronics, gold hardware) a lot better. It's VERY heavy but the tone is orgasmic.

All my old, and I mean old Fender Strats and Les Pauls (70's) My 30 watt pignose head, My old 100watt English Marhsall head and cabinet, Another 50 watt Marhshall head, My gorgeous 1979 one of a kind "kalamazoo" Les Paul Custom, My special Kramer Baretta made by Eddie Van Halen himelf, my Alverez Yuri Acoustic, and a few more beautiful instruments... I think I'm gonna cry now..

Here's a pic of my Kalamazoo Les Paul (plant burnt down 1 week after purchase) and my pignose head which souned AWESOME live on stage!



Here's my wall of marhsalls with both my 100 watt and 50 wat heads!

That was a painful read.

Where can a person get orange pants anymore?

Well, whoever is crying, I'm crying with you. My condolences on the loss of your stuff.

Where can a person get orange pants anymore?

LOL.. Mike, they were actually red and the faggiest looking pants around....Can't believe what you could get away with in the 80's (some of my other flaming outfits):

I wouldn't mind sporting those gauntlets though.

Pants that tight will make one infertile. One must stuff the frontal area for a good impression.

Yeah..it was called a low slung guitar!

Stuff I miss:
64 Fender Vibrolux Reverb amp
65 Fender Princeton Reverb
83 G&L SB-1 Bass
Altec 417s
Altec 418s

Stuff I don't miss:
Altec A7 Cabinets (sounded great, weighed 250 lbs ea, ugh!)
Fender 61 Duo Sonic Guitar - short scale, played lousy, sounded lousy
83 Fender Princeton Reverb II- was supposed to compete with a Mesa, never sounded good to my ears.
Music Man 112RD-50 Amp- painfully clean, Albert Lee loved em though.