Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject: EQUIPMENT PAST AND PRESENT
Just out of interest,how many musicians can remember all the gear they have owned since thay have been playing,first guitar and amp though to present ,
should make interesting reading _________________ www.myspace.com/eddie_bass
I arent a muso on stage but played recorder cello at school guitar as a teenager and now a banjo Strange permitation _________________ Ranch Festival 2009
ok,my turn.past to present,
amps
audition bass amp
( bought when woolys had a music dep).
vox foundation bass(head and cab).
sound city 120 valve head with 2 x 15 h/h cab.
vampower 100w valve head, same cab.
laney line backer(practice amp).
carlsbro stingray 150.
carlsbro viper 250 bi amped with carlsbro snakebite 2 x 8
100w powered top head(got nicked ,nice rig)
peavey 210 combo with 115 cab(bw)
trace elliot 1215smx combo(had to go needed the money )
behringer 300w head 115 cab.
roland db700 combo.(current)
plus a few currently fixing & restoring,1976 h/h vs100 bass combo,1976 h/h studio 50(finished),circa 74 londoner L100A(guitar/bass/organ amp) works but needs cosmetics done,1972 carlsbro 50 top valve head(nearly finished).and others bought to sell on,wem,traynor,etc etc.
Guitars
1966 vox stroller(their budget guitar)
jedson bass (my first, it was crap)
maya telecaster bass copy( less crap, both of jap origin)
ecko ranger 12 string
1974 gibson ebo bass(kept it for years, gone now)
1972 fender telcaster (should have kept that one )
varous acoustics
1979 musicman stingray(pre erny ball)current
there must be some ive fogot
plus loads ive bought to sell on
seem to change amps more than guitars wonder if others are the same _________________ www.myspace.com/eddie_bass
Small 5watt Kay thing that I learned on about 30 years ago. Played everything on 10 (still do !!) and the speaker cone gave way after two years of incessant abuse ! Particularly when trying to get it loud enough to cover a drummer !!!!!
Yamaha 15 Watt practice Amp - still got it, great sound but only used in the bedroom (yes, I know, it's a bit kinky but it makes her smile !!) after the lesson learned from the Kay amp.
Joined a Pub Rock band.... MARSHALL !! Got into using Rack stuff - had a Digitech GFX-1 (I think) which was a valve-driven preamp (2 - 12AX7 valves) plus FX which you changed through a midi floorboard, that ran through a Marshall 160Watt stereo power amp, pushed out through 2 MArshall 2*12 cabs (one each side of the drummer. Good and Loud !!! Had that for many happy years until I got fed up with lugging three heavy boxes around when one would do.
Discovered this 'amp-modelling' stuff and bout a Line6 FlextoneIII XL - absolutely superb amp - does everything you could ever want. Played that for a few years before joining Settlers, used and abused it on teh road with Settlers and recently sold it back to them !!
so now I'm back to the Yamaha, oh, and a Johnson J-Station for PC recording, but hoping to upgrade to a Line6 POD XT soon.
GUITARS.
Started with good ol' Kay - one of their Acoustics. Had that for about a year when I first started - MASSIVE action on it, I think I lost more blood learning to play that than I've ever done through being a blood donor !
Replaced with a Kay Electric (you'd think I'd have learnt by now)...the one with the on/off switches for the pickups, responsible for the early death of the Kay Practice Amp..... Hated this guitar...
When I was 17 - bought a Westone Thunder 1 (remember them) - first 'proper' guitar. Great to play. Resprayed it from it's boring wood colour to pearlesent white (very 80's !)...Still got this - in the loft in a case, needs a fret polish but it'll work just fine I reckon.
Few years later, browsing round the Music shops locally came across a new Jap Strat - Lake Placid Blue, Maple Neck....fell in love, played it back-to-back with American Fender (Clapton Strat) and still preferred the feel of the Jap one - so I bought it - that was 20 years ago and it's still played every day (although it stopped being a stage guitar 3 or 4 years ago). In fact, it's propped up against the desk next to me as I write this - Mans Best Friend !! If the house burned down I would go back in for this..that's how much I like it.
Moved into Acoustic stuff 8 years ago and bought a Yamaha APX-6. Not the best in the world but a nice, slim body menat it was perfect for me style of playing, i.e. beating the sh!t out of it. A few gentle strokes of teh local Guitar-makers woodworking tools and the action was nicely lowered. This was my main guitar with Settlers.
Oh forgot - I had an Applause bowl-back acoustic for a while. That was good but it clashed with my bowl-front so wasn't really an option for playing live. I sold it to Terry - guitarDuncs dad.
My wife (god bless Her) spotted me drooling over a guitar in a music shop a few years back when it was close to my birthday. guess what - she went back and bought me the guitar. It was a Gibson Les Paul Studio Lite - this was made in 1994 and they didn't make too many of them. I've never seen another like it, it has two humbuckers and a single coil pickup and a 5 way switch with a coil-tap. Really unusual guitar, not as nice to play as the Strat tho - but I'm keeping it just cos it's so unusual..This one HAS been played on stage but not with Settlers.
Next I got a stonking deal from Terry (remember him from earlier) for a telecaster with an Esquire neck. Beatiful thing. that's been out with Settlers a couple of times too.
When settlers decided to play Peaceful, Easy feeling we decided we needed a 12-string acoustic - enter stage right a Yamaha FG720-12. I bought this with no electric and had some fitted. The elctrics had a piezo under-bridge pickup, a standard pickup across the sound hole, and a condensor mic inside the sound hole, all could be mixed. Top guitar, just takes ages to tune !!
A mandolin arrived from Ebay - cheap and cheerful but I love it, again a bit of fixing from 'The Man' and it was a mainstay of the Settlers Shows.
Finally......... I fell in love with Duncs new guitar and had to have one so I went out and got myself a Fender American deluxe Lite Ash Strat.....What can I say - it's sex with strings !!!!!
_________________ Neil
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene'
hmm ,a Westone Thunder 1, they made good basses as well,they are getting quite sort after now and prices are increasing there is a good site on them at http://www.westone.info/
pity you resprayed it might affect future value,dont matter if you are keeping it though.APX yamaha,s make great stage guitars i like them.
i saw a guy on holiday with a line six variaxe seemed quite versatile.there seems to be more and more modeling type things about, a glimpse of the future maybe ?.but i think big rigs are a thing of the past now, let the pa do the work,look good on stage though! _________________ www.myspace.com/eddie_bass
They look really good but, for live work, are very battery hungry. I beleive you can attach a power lead to it but that doesn't work if you use wireless stuff...
They're great for Recording tho...... For folks on a limited budget they save fortunes _________________ Neil
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene'
Yes,Bowl backs and big bellys dont mix well,infact when it gets to a certain size no guitar sits right,they should market a guitar with an ajustable belly insert _________________ www.myspace.com/eddie_bass
spanish nylon string guitar to learn on ( papa still has this and still uses it at home)
Marlin Slammer strat copy
1987 USA Fender Strat plus. Had 3 gold lace sensor pickups and sounded gorgeous. Played this guitar on stage from 1987 - 2007 when I bought my next guitar for stage...
...1952 RI Telecaster. And now, Im in love all over again. The telecaster just adds something extra to my sound.Its mine ... ALL MINE!
Fender Pro 1 8 5 (red knobs)
Fender Hotrod Deville (unreliable thing)
Fender black face Twin (main stage amp, heavy but gorgeous)
Fender champ (practice amp)
1965 VOX AC30 - oh yes! this is a keeper. It has retired from gigging now.
yes,them twins do weigh a bit definatly not good for the back,ok on the ears though .i do wish id kept my tele _________________ www.myspace.com/eddie_bass
Martin 000C-16RGTE Aura - electro acoustic;
Fender Strat plus (1996 - 50th anniversary);
Fender lite ash telecaster (Korean);
2 x Simon and Patrick S&P6 Spruce (one is Nashville strung);
Angel Lopez nylon strung acoustic;
Tobias bass (no idea what model!);
Ozark banjo
Jagard lap steel;
MG electro-acoustic mandolin;
Aria Pro II electric guitar - now, this I've had since I was a kid! Covered in stickers and set up for thrash metal playing! Hardly gets touched!
First guitar was a Marlin Slammer strat copy and a £15 amp. Loved it! Had allsorts, including a Gretsch hollow-bodied electromatic that I sold recently.
I've got shedloads of studio stuff too. Based on an iMac running Logic Pro 8. _________________ Check out my music: http://www.stevemccormick.co.uk
audition semi
hondo les paul
epiphone crestwood
csl sg twin neck
gibson les paul deluxe
71 gibson les paul
gibson hummingbird
eko ranger
csl strat
gibson 345
fender custom tele 60's
fender custom tele re issue
mexican strat
epiphone les paul
yamaha msg
squier tele
vox clubman x2
encore acoustic *
hohner L59 *
avon tele
kay les paul
marlin sidewinder
kramer steve stevens
aria explorer
+ many others,long forgotten
Basses
hagstrom
62' jazz
hagstrom
gibson eb3
68' precision
musicmaster
hondo ricky copy
encore precision
79'precision
westone thunder1a
danelectro long horn
hohner 2ba
custom built jazz x3, 1 with trem,1 with graphite neck,1 5 string *
custom built precision x2
italia modulus 3 *
jim deacon mm *
jhs vintage 5 string *
50's upright
fleetwood acoustic
westbury
ibanez musician fretless
fender telecaster bass
gibson grabber
rickenbacker 4001
columbus precision
washburn 5 string
+ others
* = still have
p.s.
ovation copy
ovation celebrity - both crap
polytone 200w bass amp - brilliant
audition woolies special
watkins rapier 44
red marshall valve practice amp ? _________________ keep country music live
some nice amps in there ,bet you wish you had some of them now its realy amazing the amount of gear muso's have bought and sold over the years _________________ www.myspace.com/eddie_bass
thanks,funnily enough, the only ones that i wish i still had,is ALL OF THEM, but 12 amps 14 guitars,3 basses was a bit much at the time. _________________ keep country music live
yup i know what you mean ,its bad enough having pa gear all over the house,wifes always moaning about it,bass bins can make quite nice coffee tables in the lounge with a table cloth thrown over _________________ www.myspace.com/eddie_bass
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Strange permitation
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nice one Sheriff
,its bad enough having pa gear all over the house,wifes always moaning about it,bass bins can make quite nice coffee tables in the lounge with a table cloth thrown over