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  1. SGRocker30 wrote: As far as I know the only tube tester on the market is the one Orange makes. I'm not sure if it is any better than the **** old one from the 50's that I have yet to figure out how to use, but I know it is on the market. I think you
  2. ALL Fender stuff was expensive and rare over here. Due to trade embargos enforced after the war to help rebuild our economy there wasn't an official Fender importer until the 60s. Even Hank Marvin had to order direct from Fender. I think that answer really explains it. It had not occurred to me that this might be due to postwar economic issues.
  3. You really have to study the context of everything. That
  4. ...but it's super cool. So are cranked twins. But where can you do that? Arenas and stadiums. That
  5. The Marshall JTM 45 is often written of as if it were the first high-output guitar amplifier, despite the fact that the Fender Showman was a much higher output amp and was released two years before the JTM 45. Why did the Marshall JTM 45 catch on rather than the Fender Showman? Was the Showman just widely available? Was it not available in England? Was the sound just wrong for the music of The Who? Was the breakup of the Marshall amps more desirable?
  6. fuzz pedals. $3 in parts, sell for $500=fail I was about to post the same thing. EHX is on the right path with the Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi; a germanium overdrive and a germanium fuzz in one with a bias control. If EHX would just throw in a full tone stack on each side and charge $125 the entire boutique fuzz market would crash.
  7. Here in NYC no stage amp seems pretty common. It
  8. I listened to them until I was old enough to realize that their awful attempts at evangelism were no less of a gimmick than guys tapping out scale runs. Stryper is a case study of why good songwriters write rock songs about Christianity and bad songwriters write Christian rock.
  9. You guys need to STFU and be happy that you got the Les Pauls made from illegal exotic ebony before Obama sent his jackbooted thugs to confiscate them.
  10. Guitar Center is selling a 1958 for $4,995.
  11. +1 for CK3. Communicates better than anyone on eBay.
  12. Well, he still whines like a woman about his Metallica days. What were the people at MF thinking when they didn
  13. I just watched it this morning. Interesting but it needed better editing; if I hadn
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