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Need help identifying amp

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Hi. I have a vintage amp of some kind. The amp is black. It looks to have a couple of tubes. It’s got a few knobs but no labels on the front face, which is a metallic color. The amp emits no sound (might be because it has no speakers). Does [...]

Steve Winwood

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This guy has been in some great bands. Steve Winwood – Gimme Some Lovin’ (live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMtktf4wOzk&search=steve%20winwood

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> This guy has been in some great bands. > Steve Winwood – Gimme Some Lovin’ (live) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMtktf4wOzk&search=steve%20winwood
Did you see the Slash/Winwood/Cox/Mitchell version of "Hey Joe"?  Surreal…  Without Jimi there [...]

Fender Twin Suddenly Lost Volume Revisited

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Hello all, Thanks for your input before. I have taken the amp to my tech, and the worst possible thing that could have happened has occurred – it plays fine now! So you know what’s going to happen now – I’m going to go pick it up, take it to [...]

do you like Buddy Holly's amp

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Marty Stuart and Steve Earle performerd "Crying,Waiting, Hoping" and have really nailed the Holly rhythm guitar sound, to me.If you have any ideas how to get that tone with any of the kit amps available, I would like to know.The song is on the tribute album, "Not Fade Away".

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> Marty [...]

Need to be louder !

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If I add more speakers to my SS amp .. Will it make it louder ? It only has one 8 inch speaker, but when my neighbor is playing drums, he drowns me out. Man this electric guitar is great .. but I need to be louder than everyone [...]

Bass guitar amplifier knackered?

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Hi groups, I have a couple of questions to ask about my Trace Elliot BLX-80 bass guitar amplifier, but I suspect the questions may also be general to all guitar amps. I’ve been having various reliability problems with the amp, which manifest in the form of a loud hum through [...]

AMP-PORN

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OK, I’ve been going thru old catalogs, and old guitars.  NONE of these are for sale, at any price. But ya gotta love the porn… MORE is on the way.. JJT http://www.jtashjian.com/ampporn/ampporn.html

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  You are one sick individual ..  Yea, One really, sick,  demented individual.   [...]

John Frickin' Hartford!!!

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No eLECtric guitar on this one though John Hartford (with Roy Husky Jr.) – Gentle On My Mind http://youtube.com/watch?v=2fXXkybycsU&search=John%20Hartford

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> No eLECtric guitar on this one though > John Hartford (with Roy Husky Jr.) – Gentle On My Mind > http://youtube.com/watch?v=2fXXkybycsU&search=John%20Hartford
Thanks for posting this link!!!! His passing was [...]

Some 6L6 History or 6L6's Forever

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I copied this from a blog as the website it was on is now defunct. Interesting for tube amp newbys…including myself…M.M. 6L6 FOREVER By Eric Barbour (Note: This article does not include the full text, photos and graphics of the original one published in VTV Issue #4.) If [...]

Chinese amps?

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I don’t want this post to get in to a political realm if possible. I see that many popular amps are now being made in China. Even Fender’s. I’m not against buying foreign made gear. I have an Olp, made in China, bass that I like a lot. Been gigging [...]