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Also, if you want to save your back some trouble (Twins are HEAVY!), look for a Dual Showman Reverb. They are a Twin Reverb in a head cabinet. Then you can just pick any cabinet setup that you like (preferably at 4 ohms impedence)… They were introduced in ’68, however, so they only come as silver-faces…
Are you sure that you need an 80Watt, loud as hell, heavy as hell tube amp? If you’re willing to go smaller (which I definitely recommend), I can make some suggestions. My favorite amp, that I use when I gig, is a ’68 Deluxe Reverb, which rate around 22Watts. Granted, I like to crank it to where it breaks up just a little (I rarely play with a completely clean sound)…
The Bandmaster and Bandmaster Reverb (as well as Pro Rev., Vibrolux Rev., and Super Rev., if you can afford them) are excellent choices in the 40Watt range that will most likely cover most gigging situations you’re likely to come across, while being loud enough to hang with a drummer during practice…
Personally, I’d be wary of an amp that’s been "hotrodded" without knowing what the mods are, or at least being able to hear it in person first…
That’s a big part of why I don’t tab the solos… It takes way too much time and effort.
Also, I’m pretty sure that J just improvs them when he’s on stage, why shouldn’t the rest of us?
The AMG‘s pretty good… You have to sign up to get to some things (I haven’t) and not others. I don’t know if it’s quite what you’re looking for or not, but it might be worth checking out.
Glad to see you around FS again, by the way!
I’m not so sure that I believe that J and the gang put as much thought into this as you seem to think they have, but I did want to point out that dinosaur can also refer to the old, and jr to the new/young.
I’ve never been big on moshing either, but sometimes I get a little defacto revenge when one of the moshers strays out of the pit and runs into me. I weigh about 30 – 40lbs more than I look like I weigh, and most of this is in my lower body since I have naturally powerful legs (cleverly concealed by my loose clothing). This gives me a low center of gravity… I barely move at all when someone plows into me.
I hear that those sudden stops can hurt.
What model is the amp. If it’s too muddy then that could probably be fixed by reducing the value of the bass tone capicitor and maybe the coupling caps as well. It’d be a lot easier to tell if I could see a schematic though…
Oops! Teenage Riot’s not on that DVD… I forgot.
Daydream Nation came out in ’89. This DVD has all the videos from Goo – Murray Street. I heard somewhere that they’re going to come out with the pre-nineties videos at some point, but I have no proof to back that up…
It’s still a great DVD though.
A friend of mine gave me this for my birthday last year:
Sonic Youth – Corporate Ghost: Videos, 1990-2002
It’s one of the best things I’ve ever received in the form of a small disc-shaped object!
The cool thing about Audiogalaxy was that you could form groups and them opt to let members of that group send you stuff unsolicited. All of us Freaksceners with broadband went to town…
I know it’s not everyone’s cup-o-tea to have stuff sent to them without asking, but the group membership was moderated by us and it was great coming back to my computer to find that I had new stuff already waiting for me.
Now that I think about it, AG functioned similar to the way that Bittorrent does, albeit on a lesser level. You’d request a song to either send to someone, or download for yourself, and the AG client would search out others on the network to pull the song from. It really helped lessen the upstream hit on individual member’s connection. I wonder if something could be rigged up using BT? …and would enough people be interested. I make no promises to take on such a project, but I may look into it, just to see what it would take.
I miss Audiogalaxy.
I received so much cool music from the Freakscene group… Like two days straight worth.
I wonder if we’ll ever have one of those again…
That’s a strange article in that it doesn’t really mention anything about the case itself, just speculation on what the outcome means. I ain’t a lawyer, but from what I understand from the explanations from others, is that a lot of the effect of the descision focuses around this line:
"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties…"
In other words, the SCOTUS has ruled that it is illegal to distribute a product where your main advertising point is that of an illegal nature.
This, apparently, is precedence…
So, basically, the Supreme Court has sent this case back to the lower courts, and MGM will now have to prove that Grokster released their product with the intent that it’d be used primarily for purposes that violate copyright.
Anyway, p2p file sharing isn’t going to go away. Like always, it’ll just get driven further underground as the technology out paces the music industry and 2p2 software becomes more and more anonymous and invisible.
Here is a larger discussion on the issue by a lot of people who much more informed on these issues than I am.
Can you give us a little more detail on the nature of the track?
How complex is it?
How much detail do you expect from the tab? (basic chords, solos, etc.)
I’d probably be willing to look it over, free of charge, and pick out the basics, time permitting, but I don’t like to tab solos.
Fun Fact:
The original Face Faces were made using germanium transistors (two in the circuit), which are very inconsistant in their operational ranges from one unit to the next (unlike current silicon transistors, which are very consistant).
So, the deal was that if you just got lucky enough that both transistors in your Fuzz Face happen to operate within certain range, then you’d have one awesome distortion effect on your hands. Since the chances of having unmatched transistors was pretty high, a lot of Fuzz Faces sounded like crap. This can be compensated for to a certain degree with small adjustments to the circuit, if the transistors are at least pretty close to matching eachother, but Dallas Arbiter (the company the originally sold the Fuzz Face before Duncan bought the rights) either wasn’t aware of this back then, or was too busy trying to pump out as many units as they could, and therefor couldn’t bothered… Probably a little bit of both.
Warning: Highly Technical Stuff!
Here’s a much more technical article of how the Fuzz Face works, for anyone with at least some electronics knowledge:
I build my own stuff too.
Here’s a great place to get started:
They have a beginner’s forum which will take you through the whole process of one of the more simpler projects from beginning to end.
