Four By Ten

Can’t put stress on the heart cath lab incision.
Out here in CA, especially for those that lived in SoCal, the usual trinity of specialists for us old anglo dudes is ortho, cardio & derm.

And speaking of SoCal, I'm getting Andrew Paul's old Santana Yellow Stripped 58 that had an intermediary stop in Palm Springs for a chunk of the last year; I'll guess that its MODCAT has some overlap with your PS. Your comments about your stripper had a not insignificant influence on picking that model for my first Core.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery and return to the studio to enjoy the 4x10 & other toys!
 
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Out here in CA, especially for those that lived in SoCal, the usual trinity of specialists for us old anglo dudes is ortho, cardio & derm.

And speaking of SoCal, I'm getting Andrew Paul's old Santana Yellow Stripped 58 that had an intermediary stop in Palm Springs for a chunk of the last year; I'll guess that its MODCAT has some overlap with your PS. Your comments about your stripper had a not insignificant influence on picking that model for my first Core.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery and return to the studio to enjoy the 4x10 & other toys!
Thanks! I just got home, and feel pretty good! I'll rest up for a few days and get back to what I call normalcy pretty soon!
 
Out here in CA, especially for those that lived in SoCal, the usual trinity of specialists for us old anglo dudes is ortho, cardio & derm.

And speaking of SoCal, I'm getting Andrew Paul's old Santana Yellow Stripped 58 that had an intermediary stop in Palm Springs for a chunk of the last year; I'll guess that its MODCAT has some overlap with your PS. Your comments about your stripper had a not insignificant influence on picking that model for my first Core.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery and return to the studio to enjoy the 4x10 & other toys!
I think everyone would be well served with a heart analysis in their 30s or 40s for a baseline. The single days of pizza dinners caught up with me. So I wish I would have gone Mediterranean earlier. Olive oil is your friend. I tell myself that red wine is too.
 
Out here in CA, especially for those that lived in SoCal, the usual trinity of specialists for us old anglo dudes is ortho, cardio & derm.

And speaking of SoCal, I'm getting Andrew Paul's old Santana Yellow Stripped 58 that had an intermediary stop in Palm Springs for a chunk of the last year; I'll guess that its MODCAT has some overlap with your PS. Your comments about your stripper had a not insignificant influence on picking that model for my first Core.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery and return to the studio to enjoy the 4x10 & other toys!
lucky dog!
 
My favorite 10's are the original Jensen P10R's from the 50's. That's what was in most 50's tweed Bassman amps.

Very lively speaker and not really a bass speaker at all. It's a guitar speaker.

My favorite replacement for that speaker is the Weber P10RT 10" alnico. "T" for twang!

I think Ted's son now makes them at Weber VST.

The Italian made Jensen P10R isn't bad.

Jeff Beck used them for a while so they must be good!
 
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My favorite 10's are the original Jensen P10R's from the 50's. That's what was in most 50's tweed Bassman amps.

Very lively speaker and not really a bass speaker at all. It's a guitar speaker.

My favorite replacement for that speaker is the Weber PR10T 10" alnico. "T" for twang!

I think Ted's son now makes them at Weber VST.

The Italian made Jensen P10R isn't bad but it's not a favorite of mine. Jeff Beck used them for a while.
I've always liked the P10Rs from the early days.

I don't know how long they used them, but some of the '60s brown panel Concert-Amps floated my boat, and they were 4x10s; unfortunately, I don't remember whether they used Jensens, Utahs, or whatever else Fender was installing at the time. I did a few sessions at a friend's studio and he had a dark brown tolex one I was quite taken by.

These 10" Creambacks are very different in frequency balance, but equally wonderful in their own way.

The Italian Jensen Blackbird alnico 12" speakers are fantastic with the right amp. They're different from the old stuff they put in Fenders, but sound great in their own style, too. The right amp is crucial, though. Mine didn't work well with all my amps, just the Mesas.
 
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I've always liked the P10Rs from the early days.

I don't know how long they used them, but some of the '60s brown panel Concert-Amps floated my boat, and they were 4x10s; unfortunately, I don't remember whether they used Jensens, Utahs, or whatever else Fender was installing at the time. I did a few sessions at a friend's studio and he had a dark brown tolex one I was quite taken by.

These 10" Creambacks are very different in frequency balance, but equally wonderful in their own way.

The Italian Jensen Blackbird alnico 12" speakers are fantastic with the right amp. They're different from the old stuff they put in Fenders, but sound great in their own way. The right amp is crucial, though. Mine didn't work well with all my amps, just the Mesas.

The best sounds came from Jensens, IMO.

Either P10R or P10Q. Bigger voice coil in the P10Q. Not as fast and lively as the P10R but snappier and cleaner.

Jensen C10N's are cool too but they're fuller and warmer. Not as fast, bright and lively. They handle more power and are more like the C12N in the original Pro Reverb.

CTS made the speakers for 60's blackface Super Reverbs. Too much treble for me. Loud, clean and a bit too sharp.

Turned up they always hurt my ears. Great for Robert Cray or Buddy Guy tones tho.

Utahs were the worst although a lot of guys used them because that's what Fender CBS put in the amps.

They were basically junk, but Utah did make some 1/2 way decent car stereo speakers in the 70's.
 
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The best sounds came from Jensens, IMO.

Either P10R or P10Q. Bigger voice coil in the P10Q. Not as fast and lively as the P10R but snappier and cleaner.

Jensen C10N's are cool too but they're fuller and warmer. Not as fast, bright and lively. They handle more power and are more like the C12N in the original Pro Reverb.

CTS made the speakers for 60's blackface Super Reverbs. Too much treble for me. Loud, clean and a bit too sharp.

Turned up they always hurt my ears. Great for Robert Cray or Buddy Guy tones tho.

Utahs were the worst although a lot of guys used them because that's what Fender CBS put in the amps.

They were basically junk, but Utah did make some 1/2 way decent car stereo speakers in the 70's.
It's cool that you know so much gear history!

I was oblivious of what speakers came in any of my amps until the '90s, when I kinda got into the gear more because I'd put together a studio for the broadcast work I was doing.

I never even bothered to look to see what was in there! Which, I know, is a bit weird, but when I was young they were just "speakers", just "tubes", etc. I was a babe in the woods.

Even today, I know a lot more about synths, recording gear, samplers, mics, consoles and tape machines than about guitar gear. I suppose it's because I still think of my main instrument as keys.
 
It's cool that you know so much gear history!

I was oblivious of what speakers came in any of my amps until the '90s, when I kinda got into the gear more because I'd put together a studio for the broadcast work I was doing.

I never even bothered to look to see what was in there! Which, I know, is a bit weird, but when I was young they were just "speakers", just "tubes", etc. I was a babe in the woods.

Even today, I know a lot more about synths, recording gear, samplers, mics, consoles and tape machines than about guitar gear. I suppose it's because I still think of my main instrument as keys.

I have lots of old speakers...most of them in old amps.

I like old 50's and 60's Jensens and 60's Celestions best.

I have some old Alnico G12 Celestion from a 60's Super Beatle. Great speakers!

My G12H30's are newish but at least Made in England.

Never been a JBL, EV or Altec guy although I've owned them all.
 
I have some old Alnico G12 Celestion from a 60's Super Beatle. Great speakers!
I remember those amps well - my dream as a kid was to have a Vox Continental organ with a Super Beatle amp, which was a worthy gear combination!

Guitars were an afterthought at the time. But when I finally had enough money from gigs to get a good organ, the Vox was already passe, and I got a Hammond. A beast, and I had one of the smaller ones!
 
I remember those amps well - my dream as a kid was to have a Vox Continental organ with a Super Beatle amp, which was a worthy gear combination!

Guitars were an afterthought at the time. But when I finally had enough money from gigs to get a good organ, the Vox was already passe, and I got a Hammond. A beast, and I had one of the smaller ones!

They were kind of awful organs, but what did we know? Even the Animals had one and they were good!
 
They were kind of awful organs, but what did we know? Even the Animals had one and they were good!
Elvis Costello's band had one later in the late '70s (?). It was a sound, and it worked for the time. The Farfisa was worse. Question Mark and the Mysterious used one of those, as did Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs. I started out with a Hohner combo organ that actually sounded like a decent organ, but I lusted after the Vox.

Turned out that later, Zeppelin used a Hohner in concert. Who knew? I eventually gave that one to my nephew in the '90s. He never played it and when I asked about it, he said he threw it out. Kinda pissed me off.

I remember seeing The Animals at Olympia. Herman's Hermits, who I couldn't stand, opened for them and I was PO'd. How dare a mere bubblegum group open for the real deal Animals!! Harumpphhh!

Seems Peter Noone and Eric Burdon were pals, and liked touring together. But I was a purist (or so I thought)!
 
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Here are a few more Vox Continental tidbits:

The Doors' Ray Manzarek's Continental is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY (!).

John Lennon played one on "Think for Yourself" on "Rubber Soul," and used one on "I'm Down" when on tour. You can hear it on the recording on Rubber Soul.

There was a Continental on Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl," "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees, and "In a Gadda da Vidda" by Iron Butterfly. Pigpen of the Grateful Dead played one, until he later switched to Hammond. You can hear it quite clearly on their early records.

The Sir Douglas Quintet used one on "She's About A Mover."

Paul Revere and the Raiders used one, of course. It was a big part of their sound, and their TB presence. The Dave Clark Five used one on tour and in the studio.

Semi-relevant side note:

The DC5's 2008 introduction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, given by Tom Hanks, is absolutely the coolest intro to anything, ever, I've ever heard! What a tour de force!! And at the end, a few of the stars of other eras come out to play. Awesome stuff! And there was a Continental on the stage, of course.


Most surprisingly, The Continental showed up with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on songs like "Don't Do Me Like That", played through a Leslie Speaker instead of an amp, which is why I never recognized it. Evidently there were times they wanted a transistor sound with more cut and less low end on recordings. Go figure, I didn't have a clue!

And yet if you listen, there it is.


Totally irrelevant side note: Petty meant a lot musically both to me and to my son, who opened for Petty's band at Bottlerock only a week or so before he died. We both loved everything about it, and when he visits, we jam some Petty every time.
 
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