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jpnyc

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  1. 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.

  2. 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?

  3. 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.

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