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Platefire
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 We had a thread once where everybody threw in their 2 cents
on what kind of equipment they are using and musical influences that slipped off the forum before we realized it. I
think it would be a good idea to do a new one that could
be added as an achieve and would be a permanent record
or all the regulars and anybody else. Can you handle
going down that road again?? Plate  

Edited by: GroundhogKen at: 12/6/03 6:45 pm
 
EL34  
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 Go ahead, add to this thread and Ken or I can add it to the Archive.

I'll start it off.

Guitars
Two bastard strats with double single coils and a Jeff Beck humbucker in the rear.
(Sold the 66 Tele and 66 Jazzmaster)
Takoma Road King acoustic.

Amps
Hoffman 50 watt plexi.
66 Fender Vibrolux Reverb
Hoffman AB763 kit in a Fender deluxe reverb carcass with 2 x 10 Jensen speakers.
71 Princeton reverb carcass with a one-off Hoffman board in it and a 12 inch speaker.
100 watt purple Hoffman head.

Influences in no particular order
Hendrix
Jeff Beck
Carlos Santana
Eric Johnson
Beatles
Jerry Douglas
Led Zepplin
Leslie West
Robin Trower
Joe Satriani
Eddie Van Halen
Billy Gibbons
James Burton
 
KDakaWalt
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 Guitars - 70’s 335, Squire Tele w EMGs, Robert Cray Strat, G&L Skyhawk, 57 LP Spec, P-Bass, Santa Cruz Tony Rice, Danelectro U50(?)

Amps – Mission Amps 5E3, Self-Made (with lots of help from here) 5F6A Bassman, 70’s VibroChamp, Carvin MTS3212, Spectra-T60, Nemesis 210

Influences – Johnny Winter, Wes Montgomery, Clapton, Doc Watson, Django, Tony Rice, practically every other guitar player I have heard, Duke Ellington....

 
GroundhogKen
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 Ken
Age 39, Rochester NY
Married, 2 daughters
Electrical Engineer

GEAR:

75 Fender Strat maple neck ( for my 12th birthday)
'62 ( rosewood) vintage reissue Strat (1990-much nicer than the 3 bolt '75.)

Black Face Super Reverb
Black Face Deluxe Reverb
Vox Cambridge Reverb ( 2-EL84 10" Oxford "Gold Dog" ) 15 watts of tube fun.

1960 Hammond B3 organ and 122 Leslie
Hohner D6 Clavinette
Fender Rhodes ( 76 Key)

A few effects like MXR Phase 90, Roland 201 Space Echo, Mutron Octave Divider.

INFLUENCES:

Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Puple and Rainbow:
From when I was 9 until about 17, this guy was my primary influence.
Taught me scales, chords, and how to play by ear.

Steve Hackett ( His Genesis and early solo works )
Taught me to think of the guitar as a paintbrush and to pay attention to
the whole signal path--from the brain to the PA speakers. Introduced to me
to asymetric meters, fancy chords and restraint.

Jerry Garcia:
My biggest influence--from him I learned phrasing and improvisation skills--much
of which I should have picked up from Blackmore and Hackett. Garcia also
taught me to listen to the whole band. And he got me into brighter, happier tunes.

OTHERS:

Bach, Brahms, Chopin, The Band, CCR, Black Sabbath,
Charlie Parker, Pat Methany, Pink Floyd, BB King, Groove Holmes
Dixie Dregs, Zeppelin, Robert Fripp, Hendrix, Cream, Bob Marley,
Alice Cooper, Grand Funk, Rolling Stones, John Denver,
Willie Nelson, Sarah McLachlan, etc.
 
1967Vintage
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 Chris from England

Guitars
Fender US Std Natural Ash Strat - weighty, but she sings!
Gibson Les Paul Std w/Seymour Pearly Gates and 59 p/us - plays nice, but doesn't really cut it.
Late 80's Kramer - Jap crap that no-one wants to buy off me!
Seagull SG-6 Acoustic
Mandolin

Amps
Hoffmanised (?) Marshall Superlead 100w (quiet as a mouse until you play something!!!)
Carvin Bel Air 50w combo

FX
Various stomp boxes, incl TS10 Tube Screamer and a DOD Ice Box (lush)
Rack units, incl Rocktron Intellifex, Alesis Quadraverb+, Compressor

Influences
Hendrix; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Page (taught me it's okay to drop notes from time to time); Beck; early Clapton; Allen Collins, Gary Rossington & Ed King (it's the gaps in the music that make the notes more interesting); Rickey Medlocke; Paul Kossoff; early Billy Gibbons; Slash; early electric blues (Muddy Waters, Albert King, etc); big band jazz

 
bluesbear
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 Here's mine.
Guitars (in working order):
acoustics:
1930 Gretsch custom shop archtop
1939 Kay archtop
'40's Stella flattop
'66 Gibson LG-0
'72 Gretsch Sho-Bro resonator
Alverez-Yairi 12 string
Guild D-1CE
electrics:
'66 Gibson Trini Lopez Standard
'66 transitional Firebird
'70's Yamaha SHB-400
'70's Yamaha SSC-500
'72 Epiphone Emperor prototype
'80's Strat
OopS! Forgot the '72 Guild S-100
Basses:
'66 Fender Precision
'62 Gibson EB-3
'64 Harmony hollowbody
Forgot the Fernandez 5 string active bass

Amps:
Ones I made:
Allen Old Flame (kit)
Vox AC15 dual rectifier
25 watt sorta BF kinda Clone
Ones I bought:
Blues Pearl Double Trouble (prototype 5C3 clone)
Bedrock 50
2 - Seymore Duncan Convertibles + extra 1-12" cabinet
Peavey Delta Blues
'66 Bassman head with 2-12" and 2-15" cabs
Bassman 10
Super Champ
Bandmaster head
Ampeg Gemini ll
OLD Motorola w/1-6AQ5 & 8" speaker, believe it or not
Bogen PA with two 12" enclosure (hottest blues amp I own)
Another Bogen head set up for harp
Dukane PA waiting for modification
Also forgot the '59 Gibson GA-40 Les Paul amp,
the Music Man 65,
and the Harke head

Influences:
Muddy Waters
Lonnie Mack
Johnnie Winter
Lonnie Mack
Hendrix
Lonnie Mack
John Lee Hooker
and of course....Lonnie Mack (Hey, I'm from Hamilton, OH. He played out on Route 4 every weekend while "Wham" and "Memphis" were #1 and for years afterwards. I saw him last August and he still outplays them all! Get the "Wham of the Memphis Man" CD recorded in'62 and be amazed)

Dave (poster child for G.A.S.)


Edited by: bluesbear at: 11/14/03 9:07 am
 
coap01
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 Lev
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no wife (...is a band considered a wife??) , no kids!
electrical engineer, programmer

guitars:
ibanez rg570,
ibanez sc420,
epiphone spotlight ('89) really cool guitar, heavy but sounds amazing.
plus a whole mess of junky guitars/basses that are good for nothing but firewood

amps:
slo100 clone
sovtek mig100h. VEEEERY LOUD!
crate SS amp (my first amp ever)
all through a marshall cab of unidentifiable age, definitely older then i am :)

influences:
led zep, maiden  , sabbath, vai, satriani..etc

peace
 
bflat
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bflat
Florida
jack of all trades, master of none




1960 Les Paul (NOT SG style--the REAL deal)
1961 SG Reissue
1976 Gibson Byrdland
1994 Les Paul Special DC
Warmoth Strat



1965 Blackface Vibro Champ
1973 Fender Princeton
1974 Fender Champ
1978 Fender Champ
1976 Fender Deluxe Reverb
1984 Marshall 4210 Combo
1969 50 watt Marshall 1987 Lead Head
1970 4x12 slant front cab w/25 watt greenbacks
1967 Marshall 8x10 converted to 2 15" JBL d 130's
various other "works in progress"




Hendrix
Page
Robert Cray
Tommy Shaw
on and on.......



 
BertusJ
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 Jon 38
N.J.
married 3 kids

Guitars - Epi Dot (335 copy) , American Tele ,Acoustic Epi J200 copy
Amps - 65 Champ (not much left in it from 65)
mid 70's Twin Reverb ( pull out master volume)
Marshall Mk 2 50 w combo (2 12" G12-65's)
Influences - Dickey & Duanne,Carlos,Garcia,Angus Young, Audley Freed ,Marc Ford , Warren Haynes

Enjoy playing blues"Southern" rock type stuff .
 
stantana
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 stan

married... 3 kids

51

guitars:

68 tele butchered but sounds so good

hendrix strat

Gibson Les paul standard 2001... aged cherry

Yamaha electric from the 80s set in mahogany neck

Reverend Rocco

G and L signature strat

no named guitar that I scalloped the neck

Yamaha nylon string

steel string seagull

dobro 8 string (1975)

Carter 12 string universal stell