Dear Lesteban:
I have a lovely, petite, girl next-door amp at home that's only twenty watts. The neighbors like her, she's popular in the social circle of non-guitarist bands I play in, young, and is really all I should need.
The problem is, I occasionally feel like our relationship is a little too basic and vanilla. I promised to myself when we first got together that I would remain true, there are times when I long for the excitement of a big, loud, heavy-set amplifier. Even though I know it's wrong. I've started jacking into other amps.
The first time was a matter of convenience. We were introduced at a rehearsal studio by some friends, seemed to hit it off, and spent a month together. I knew she was a married amp when we met but she was feeling neglected since her partner was more interested in drums. I thought it was just me having a weak moment where I didn't feel like carrying an amp up three flights of stairs, but it just felt... So right to be that loud and authoritative. We traveled a bit together and really got to know each other, I thought I was developing deeper feelings for her.
Clearly you can see what a great couple we made, and though I still see her here and there, the initial affair opened the floodgates of my desire. On the eve of Thanksgiving weekend this past year I found myself at a nightclub that she had been taken to with her partner, where she kind of pushed me into jacking into another amp,
while she and the whole club watched! It was this 100 watt silver faced amp ( which to be fair really looked good on her for an amp her age) that was named after her cones: The Twin. I turned her up... really rocked out, and when the end of the night came?
Went home without her!
It is so freeing to be a mooch! No tubes to replace, no fuses to feed, nobody passing judgment on you for leaving the windows cracked in the car and her in it while you go to the bar and have a few drinks! Hell, I'm not even stuck driving a minivan...... at my age!
It would seem as though I stumbled into a circle of amplifier cuckold fetishists. Last month I resumed seeing the first amp. Our time together was infrequent enough that we both realized it was turning into a FWB kinda thing, to just have fun, and know that it wasn't really gonna get serious. It was too late, it had already dawned upon me that I didn't need to dump my amp at home, and that I could continue on quite easily I may add, plugging into other people's amps.
There was a night out with this one:
Met her at the club fifteen minutes before we made "music" together. I can assure you that the frown EQ she was wearing on her faceplate wasn't there when I was done!
And then there was this British amp I met that swore she was only 25 years old:
Her bottoms didn't match her top, but I was tipsy enough not to notice, and it didn't matter anyway 'cause we did it right there... Oh God! I'm hooked on other people's amps!
So I guess my main question to you is.....
Can I borrow your amp? :creep:
And while I love the PRS pine 2x12 the best of all my cabs, the PRS 1x12 is the perfect, scaled-down, option.
