Guitar Stories
Details Guitar: Ibanez ST-55 (may have been a ST-50) Year Purchased: 1981 Price Paid: $250.00 ($711.80 in 2021 dollars) Notes: … Continue reading Guitar Story #5: Ibanez ST-55
Guitar Stories
Details Guitar: Vantage Avenger Year Purchased: 1981 Price Paid: $300.00 ($854.16 in 2021 dollars) Notes: Brand new Made in Japan … Continue reading Guitar Story #4: Vantage Avenger
Guitar Stories
Details Guitar: Cortez LP Copy Year Purchased: 1980 (or so) Price Paid: not sure Notes: Late 70s Made in Japan … Continue reading Guitar Story #3: Cortez Goldtop
Guitar Stories
Details Guitar: Epiphone ET-270 Year Purchased: 1977 (or so) Price Paid: $150.00 ($640.62 in 2021 dollars) Notes: 1970s Made in … Continue reading Guitar Story #2: Epiphone ET-270
Guitar Stories
Details Guitar: Teisco EP-something? Year Purchased: 1976 (or so) Price Paid: $20.00 ($90.97 in 2021 dollars) Notes: 1960s Made in … Continue reading Guitar Story #1: Teisco EP
Pedals
In the late 90s a friend lent me a Roland 201 Space echo. I had it in my possession for … Continue reading Unsolicited Review of the BOSS RE-20 Space Echo
Pedals
The other day a Facebook memory came down my feed. It was a photo from a tour one of my … Continue reading My Spartan Pedal Board
Guitars
I’ve worked my way through 3 Telecasters in my playing career. One made in Mexico model from ’92 or so, … Continue reading 1990 Fender 52 Reissue Telecaster
Pedals
Phase shifting is one of my favorite guitar effects. You would never know it by watching me play live or … Continue reading Something for Nothing: Maestro PS1-A Phase Shifter
Amps
This here is a Marshall model 1974x 18 Watt head built from a Mojotone kit by an old friend and … Continue reading My Marshall 1974x 18 Watt
Amps
Some time in 1997 I lined up 3 Fender Bassman heads and this Sovtek Mig 50 in a large room … Continue reading My Sovtek MIG 50: Strong Like Russian Tank (Or Jet)
Amps
While we’re talking amps, this here is a 5f1 Champ I built. The transformers came from an early 60s Silvertone … Continue reading My 1961-ish 5F1 Tweed Champ
Amps
Today we have a super clean 1986 Marshall Lead 12 (5005) amplifier. It is styled liked its JCM800 series brother’s … Continue reading Solid Solid State: Marshall Lead 12
Amps
This is my 1964 transitional Princeton amp. It’s one of the smartest purchases I ever made and the only pre-CBS … Continue reading My 1964 Princeton Amp
Recording
In 1990 I moved to Seattle from Michigan. Outside of one good work friend and a few work acquaintances I … Continue reading Old Best Friend
Guitars
I love the Youtube “rabbit porthole” that appears on the right hand side of the screen when watching a video. … Continue reading Tele Talk Tuning Video
Guitars
My first (and only) eBay guitar purchase was a made in Japan Gibson Les Paul Knockoff. Sometime in 2005 I … Continue reading My Made in Japan Les Paul
Pedals
One of the greatest struggles for a teenage guitarist coming up in the late 70s was procuring an amplifier capable … Continue reading The Quest for LOUD – Electro-Harmonix LPB-1
Pedals
I currently own and use 2 Tube Screamers. One 90s reissue TS-9 and one 80s TS-10. I use them both … Continue reading My Tube Screamers
Amps
I was in no real hurry to enter the work force after high school graduation. I also had no plans … Continue reading The King of Cheap