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Why all the expressions of hate? If you don't like the guy or his music, don't pay any attention to it. All of this attention being paid to something someone does not like is IMO defeating the purpose of music.

Has anybody here played with Herbie Hancock? [video=youtube;JAZXEB-2IfA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL50B6D6C813791427&v=JAZXEB-2IfA&feature=player_detailpage#t=66s skip ahead to 2:00 min in if you are impatient

One of my students is 17 and he's quickly becoming a fine guitarist. He likes John Mayer - through Mayer he discovered Hendrix. [video=youtube;-i__R__umCA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i__R__umCA

We live in a marketing world. Fender is a marketing company. John Mayer is a marketable product. The fact that he is actually a good guitar player seems secondary in this marketing world and in this thread. Ritchie Blackmore has been described as "difficult" but that does not stop people from listening to and enjoying his guitar playing. Why should Mayer be treated any different?

I have a roomful of amps in the basement (literally). I love them. I also have a Yamaha DG1000, a PromixO1 and powered Renkus-Heinz speakers. I also love them. I'm good to go either way. It would work for me. I use a Yamaha DG80 and run the speaker emulated DI into the PA and back through the monitors. The DG80 has separate volume controls for the line out and for the speaker out so, sometimes I will just use the DI and it sounds fine. For the gig mentioned in the OP the Yamaha DG1000 would be perfect for me because it would be way easier than carrying the DG80 (55 lbs) around.

That's simply awesome! I bet your student was blown away by your generosity. He's seventeen and a natural guitar player. While all his friends are going for as much gain as they can with their pointy guitars he just goes for that sparkling clean strat sound and plays great blues and jazz with the neck pickup. He found Hendrix through John Mayer and currently listens to Bob Marley more than anything else. He's beginning to write his own stuff and I can't think of a better place for the big old Super. It's much easier for him to carry it around than it was for me.

The ultralinear SF line gets a bad rap but I like them. I inherited a 70 watt Super Reverb that needed repair and, once it was fixed up and adjusted it sounded great. Incredibly clean and very powerful and responsive. It takes pedals well and there are many great overdrives to choose from these days. One of my young students really appreciates Fender clean sounds and his MIM strat sounded so good through the monster that I gave it to him. (I took it to a few gigs and realized that I'm to old to be lugging a Super around any more - I have a '73 Princeton Reverb that works really well with a SM57).

I don't know if this is valid, perhaps someone here could comment, but I've thought about hanging carpet a bit out from the wall so the sound wound be dampened a bit as it passed thru the carpet before reflecting off the wall, then attenuated a bit more as the reflected sound passed thru the carpet again. As mentioned above, this would cut down on the reflections but not provide proper 'treatment'