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  1. I've watched a couple of his videos, but don't really follow him. I didn't even realize that he was a contentious subject to be honest. I'm really into the tweed amps. So Joe B.'s similar obsession isn't bothersome to me. If I had his success and a 35 year and counting career in music, I'd buy a bunch of cool amps and guitars too. I mean, yeah, it's a lot. But I'd probably trade it all for a little more. In that interview, he said if he had to have just one guitar and amp, it'd be the 1951 Nocaster (which came with a PAF in the neck position) and a reissue HP Tweed Twin with a green stompbox in between.
  2. I'll add that I find it infinitely more interesting listening to Mike Campbell talk about his guitar/amp collection.
  3. Mine probably is having to listen to Rush. Different strokes. I assume he posts here. Like I said before, I'm not bothered and am mildly interested in seeing/hearing about his collection. Glass houses, albeit smaller glass houses in my case.
  4. "Smoke free, pet free home." Lulz
  5. I get it and I was prepared to lose interest after a few minutes too. But here we are. Up is down. Day is night. Nothing makes sense. /edit. Just finished. Glad I did. He spends a lot of time talking about other musicians, influences, etc. His music may not be for me, but the dude can play.
  6. I honestly don't know who the first guy is.
  7. So I understand the consensus on Joe Bonomasa and never really have liked his style of playing. The collecting never has bothered me because glass houses (at a lower level). But the Rick Beato interview with him from yesterday goes a long way in humanizing the guy. I'm about half way through it after trying to talk my way out of it, and it's worth the watch, if only for the opportunity to stare at the 1958 LP he's fiddling around on. https://www.youtube-nocookie.c...bed/kUbo8mreVWA?feature=oembed
  8. Oh, that's right. It's got that awesome, built-in, harmonic-trem on it.
  9. You could run the Bassman head into those two Marshalls set for eight ohms since the extension jack runs in parallel. On a Blackface/Silverface 8 ohm combo like a deluxe, you can run a pair of 16 ohm cabs off the main and extension jack together. @Chad Fuck When you said Vibrolux, I assumed you meant an old 1x10 Tweed. If it's a Vibrolux Reverb, you can run the mains into 4 ohms just like the internal speakers. I can't remember which one you have.
  10. Nice. I never got a chance to try it. I had a Sunn 4x12 from the early 70s with four Emi square backs in it. But my 77 Champ had alligator clips for a speaker out, and I always was too lazy to find an adapter.
  11. It may not sound as good unless it's rated for 8 ohms like your Vibrolux. The Champ was set up for a 4 ohm load, which is why it seems to handle the 4 ohm cabs so well. You can try it, but always consider . . . When running an 8 ohm amp into a 4 ohm load, the amp runs hotter as there is less resistance from the output (closer to a direct short). Tubes and components experience more stress, but if built well will probably be okay. Alternatively, for example, 8 ohm amp output 16 ohm speaker load---tubes can run cooler, but the transformers can develop flyback voltages (what happens is the transformer generates a voltage potentially up to a 1,000V or so [some other poster has] read; this can cause internal arcing and eventual transformer failure). The opposite is true for solid state amps.
  12. Repost: Tweed Champ (5f1) into a 4x12.
  13. I think part of the point of the post I read was the Jupiter 8" speakers. They apparently sound pretty big. I'd be curious to hear them in a bassman sized cab just for grins. But in the line of no replacement for displacement, I'm reminded of how glorious a 5 watt champ sounds through a 4 ohm 4x12.
  14. Just reading on TGP in a thread about people wanting a smaller package Tweed Bassman and the common response is that it doesn't exist since 4x10 is part of the formula. Someone mentioned that a 4x8 with Jupiter 8" 25 watt speakers and while I'm not spending the money, I'm kind of curious.
  15. Gibson makes them as well. But I'm not pulling perfectly good T-Tops out of my ES335 to find out. I did consider them for my SG, but ended up going with some PAF knock-offs. https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/IMP4RBS--gibson-accessories-p-94r-humbucker-sized-p-90-pickup-black-and-silver-neck
  16. Walnut is where it's at.
  17. You're not wrong. I think the incremental progress might be easier to appreciate if it had been achieved with relatively-quiet dignity instead of with the overly hyped nonsense most, if not all, of us could smell from a mile below Boulder. In the end, last place is last place; only this year, it's wearing sunglasses.
  18. So in that video, the milkman has the horns up toward the end. I know nothing of aggy turditions. What's up with that? Is he too dumb even to aggy, or is it the simple fact that from the outside, you can't understand it?
  19. I always heard of people having success with using links of bicycle chain, running the screws from the pedal's base plate through one part of the link and screwing the other part to the board (assuming a wooden board). I ended up getting a Pedal Train Nano and a Nano+ when I decided I never wanted to deal with a larger board again. I've never used the Nano+ in a live setting in the years I've had it. The Nano always has been enough.
  20. dcbc

    Gumbo

    I used to have a few of those in a beer brewing rig, which has been moved on down the road to the next guy.
  21. Rewatching the game now. Blue should be played a lot. So fast.
  22. As a semi-old-fart, I'll say that maybe we should celebrate the end of the third quarter less and finish the game. I looked like we got a damned delay-of-game penalty because of all the orange smoke all over the place that hadn't made its way off the field by the time play commenced. Also, Wabash Cannonball > Don't Stop Believing.
  23. dcbc

    Gumbo

    It's a contributor in a great way for sure. But have a taste of it in a spoon.
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