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Scooter Monzingo

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  1. On 2/2/2022 at 10:42 AM, Chad Fuck said:

    I have to say, though, my experience with my Lone Star has been great at home, but I'm still trying to work out getting what I want out of it in the field.  There are so many damn options that it's at both times thrilling and overwhelming.  I get great live dirty tones.  I mean, the best I've ever played out.  It's great.  But when I try to switch between clean/dirty I've still not found the right volume/tone settings.  It goes from perfect dirt to muddy clean.  But I suspect this is an issue with my brain adapting to the amp rather than an issue with the amp.

    By chance are you using one of these?

     

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  2. 8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I know SRV was a Dumble guy, but what's so magical about them?  I find it hard to believe there aren't boutique amps voiced in a similar manner for, oh, I don't know, 1% - 2% of the price.

    I mean, if I'm playing through the amp, any problems are mine, not the amp's.

    I just looked at some of the used pricing, damn they proud of them fuckers.

    I would like to hook up a comparable model next to my 70 Mesa. It would be interesting to hear them side by side. 

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  3. 12 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, since I brought up AIC, I'll defend myself -- I "knew of" him.  I knew the band well.  i just ignored them, they didn't resonate, for whatever reason.  You know, kind of the point of the thread.

    I could take or leave them, Nephew thinks he was pretty special. 
     

    More importantly…Wasn’t there a claymation celebrity death match back then that had Staley and Eddie Vedder fight to the death. 

  4. 12 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    Catching up on this thread - Straight Fret is also where I took my ruined duo jet. Julio did the work rather than Danny, and it wasn’t plek’d, but great results. I think Julio still works there (I also have his contact if anyone is looking for a guy to take on a project like that), and Danny is also great.


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    That is a great restoration…

     

  5. 5 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    Looks like the good Deans are their USA line in the $3k range

    This fucker is on Reverb, a touch over $3k. I’m normally not a fan, but the tiger stripes are bad ass.

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  6. 8 hours ago, Goredho said:

    Single pickup guitars have always made me wonder why someone has not made a sliding position lock for the pickup.  Maybe because it would be hard to accomplish without allowing vibration that might negatively affect tone?  Or our brains are kind of married to traditional guitar aesthetics?  Maybe its just bad business considering they have us buying N guitars chasing the varied tones we want to hear?

    It just seems like from a purely functional standpoint, I should be able to unlock the pickup, slide it wherever I want between the bridge and neck, lock it back down and start playing with a new tone.  Extra points if the pickup could be popped out and replaced with a different style pickup without changing strings like this guitar.

    Good idea, but….If it changes the distance from the string to the pick up it would fuck with the intonation. How much is anyones guess…

  7. He won a ring early in his career. That made what was already an asshole, an insufferable prick.
     

    If we’re honest he isn’t alone. Rodgers loves the cameras on him so he gets more airtime. But you don’t have to look very hard to find a shit ton of other players with diva problems. 

  8. 4 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

    Why do people continue to ask?

    According to Colonel Klink, they are known as "boot butterflies."

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    I’m asking as I have not seen a pair of these in the wild. Obviously I do not know one of these dumb mother fuckers.

  9. I took my grandson’s to Mecum last week. They had over 3500 cars, along with road art, motorcycles, and complete engine assemblies from modern cars for use in resto-mods.

    If you haven’t attended one of these, give it a try. I actually stopped looking at Hemi Cuda’s, GTX’s, Road Runners, Challangers, because the fucking things were everywhere. You become somewhat desensitized because of the high level of quality. Park any of them at my local Wal-Mart and you would get a crowd of 20 in 30 minutes. Around 100 others…not so much. 

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  10. 2 hours ago, AnotherUTFan said:

    Howard Dumble has passed away, taking a lot of amp building secrets with him. If you couldn't afford a Dumble already, doubt you ever will now.

    https://www.musicradar.com/news/howard-alexander-dumble-death?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=musicradar&utm_medium=social

    It reads strangely similar to Randy Smith’s journey. Just change the names to Carlos, Richards, and Jerry Garcia.

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