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http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/
Jan Akkerman's amp is a Super Showman - solid state, from 1968-69. It was a very advanced concept for its day, with a head and powered cabinets so it could be expanded more or less indefinitely.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
I'm now no longer really interested in owning gear I can't easily lift - which given the low volume levels usually required on stage now, and the power-to-weight ratio of a lot of modern gear, is not a problem at all... especially as a bass player - I have a 500W bass combo that weighs less than a typical valve guitar head.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Band Stuff: https://navigationofficial.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-ep
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The Gibson Personal"I bought the Gibson Personal back in the seventies. I didn't like the pickups. I met Paul Hamer and I asked him to get the bloody pick-ups off and make me a maple top and put my old humbuckers back on there so I would have my old sound. Because the body is a little wider and longer it has even more sustain than the black Les Paul Custom, and it was lighter as well. So Paul refurbished it for me and the thing arrived in the studio in New York at the moment I was starting to record Tabernakel with Les Paul's son Gene behind the desk "
"I used it on most pieces on Tabernakel and, of course, Hamburger Concerto. After the Personal I also used a gold top Gibson." The Les Paul Personal "For some reason the gigs in the UK last year kind of triggered my interest in the old Les Paul again. It brought back memories but I didn't know I still had the tiger-stripe (Personal). I knew somewhere it was stashed away with a guitar builder called Anno Galema but I had left it there. I drove up there in summer of last year. The guitar was totally stripped and cracked up but Willem Heins restored it and he's done a marvellous job. It took him four or five months. He got the whole top out because it was totally spoiled, all the bindings were gone. He used 24 or 25 pieces of original lacquer and put on a new maple top."
"My gold top has gone, and also the Gretsch Super Jet (on the Live at Montreux cover). I've still got the Gretsch White Falcon. There's some knobs missing, because I used those on the Black Beauty."https://www.janakkerman.com/index_page.html
Both halves weighed as much as a car and it still had to come with the infinitely unportable leslie so it was, in fact, not portable at all. but i guess it's a relative term!
The two women were probably either ballet dancers or Olympic gymnasts .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I was delighted that my immediate thought "I bet someone has put one of those on the back of a truck" wasn't wrong.