Re: OT: Earliest Music Gear I Went Ga-Ga Over

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

Very nice music, Tim.  Only one mistake -  i LOVE the band name The Bumping Uglies!

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On 21-Dec-06, at 5:20 PM, Tim Nelson wrote:

> Round bout late 70's/turn of the 80-ish blurry times,
> I once was the proud owner of a mid-sixties Sears
> Silvertone head that I added to my rig ('60 geebson
> melody maker single cutaway >>fuzz>>volume pedal>>
> looping with an akai gx400d sound on sound open reel
> into a tweed '59 gibson ranger that i still use pretty
> much daily, actually)... Brought me into the age of
> stereophonic loopage.
>
> Thing was: this here Silvertone had a bad habit. It
> was flammable. It would overheat and catch on fire
> with real flames and everything. Bad smells, tarry and
> electrical. Upset cohabitators. But RIGHT before I
> would dive for the power switch, it would have the
> most INCREDIBLE tone. The roar of impermanence, maybe.
>
> -t-
>
> --- Paul <paulrichard10@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> > Following loosely along with the comments about
> > earlier instruments 
> > purchased at 60's/70's/et al prices, I remember two
> > pieces of gear I fell in 
> > love with in the display window of Lomakin's Music
> > in Pittsburgh, PA: a Vox 
> > guitar-organ and an original Maestro Echoplex. I
> > ended up getting a bogus 
> > echoplex (don't remember the brand) but it worked
> > okay for its day. I think 
> > my nephew still has it (along with my first guitar,
> > a Harmony electric). I 
> > used to power the ax with a Bogen Challenger power
> > amp through a speaker 
> > that was either blown or defective but made a
> > distorted sound similar to 
> > Eric Braun's from the Iron Butterfly.
> >
> > The Kahuna
>
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