Obey Me!

[veinbuster]

I think I'll go rattle some windows with my paisley amp.

 

[Bluesboy998]

Good idea me too

 

[CatStrangler]

Well imagine Led Zep onstage. Page has his Hammer Of The Gods guitar. But he's playing it through a Roland Jazz Chorus.

Now imagine that Page is playing a Squier Hello Kitty guitar through his usual Marshalls or his Hiwatts.

Which rig will sound more like Zep's records when the concert starts?

I'll play. Given that choice I would go with option B. Page played teles often enough and you won't get much pleasing breakup from a JC for sure.

 

[kingsleyd]

The more experienced I get [read: older] the more I understand the truth of Les' OP. It took me a loooooong time to figure out that most of the guitar problems I experienced were actually amplifier problems.

Well, with that '89 Custom [24] I had back in the day, it was the guitar. But that's another story.

Anyway, while there's a certain amount of synergy between the two, my personal bottom line is that it's more important by a pretty long ways to get the amp end of things right. The guitar part falls into place a lot more easily when the amp part is all there.

 

[11top]

I like blondes, brunettes, and redheads.

 

[Dancing Frog]

I'll play. Given that choice I would go with option B. Page played teles often enough and you won't get much pleasing breakup from a JC for sure.

Well, it depends on what you put in front of the JC. Who am I kidding? There is no technology yet that you can use that will make a JC sound like a Marshall or a HiWatt convincingly. Roland tried, but it's all cheese.

I have to agree most guitar problems are amp problems in disguise. But I'll go one further and say that most amp problems from a tonal standpoint are cabinet/speaker problems. There is nothing that can make a great amp sound worse than the wrong cabinet/speaker combination.

 

[tiboy]

I have neither guitar nor amp problems. I do, however, have substantial lack of talent problems. To the original post: amp trumps guitar for sound. Guitar trumps amp for playing experience.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

I'm a shopaholic, so...yes. I would be excited about getting a new guitar or​ a new amp. Right now I'm eyeballing amps.

 

[alantig]

I like blondes, brunettes, and redheads.

Yet you hang around all those bald ones...

Les I enjoy reading all your threads but a paisley woody I don't know.

Don't be fooled - at his age, Les is probably more splotchy than paisley. :vroamaisley doesn't survive the centuries. That's why all the paisley Strativarius cases have disappeared.

 

[László]

I like blondes, brunettes, and redheads.

Yes, but do you play them all or do you keep some cased?

Me, I can only handle two at a time.

OK, I'm exaggerating.

Greatly exaggerating, actually.

 

[László]

Paisley doesn't survive the centuries.

Depends on whether you use a road case.

 

[11top]

I like blondes, brunettes, and redheads.

I should have added that they don't seem to reciprocate the feelings.


Which, in part, explains your response Alan.

 

[Texas_minor_blues]

For years I paid so little attention to my amps, always focusing on my guitars. It wasn't till probably 3-4 years ago that I started really looking at what the amp contributes to "my" tone. I think that why I found myself to fascinated by my Bogner Shiva. Even now I still find myself tweaking the amp and trying it with different cabs and such. I now find myself looking for a nice Single Channel amp - I find myself looking to the Matchless Chieftain and trying to talk myself out of it lol. Anyways right now I can honestly say I have new Amp on the brain just need to figure out what will work best for me!

 

[Chester]

To the original post: amp trumps guitar for sound. Guitar trumps amp for playing experience.

+1

20 years of guitar GAS has now morphed into 5 years of amp GAS .. bought 4 amps in the last year, but zero guitars

 

[László]

I have neither guitar nor amp problems. I do, however, have substantial lack of talent problems.

Lack of talent is no excuse!

We are talking gear here, my brother! Gear!

Now let's get busy and order up some new amps. I say a new amp cures all ills. Oh heck, and while we're at it, let's grab some more guitars!

What say you?

 

[JustRob]

Lack of talent is no excuse!

We are talking gear here, my brother! Gear!

Now let's get busy and order up some new amps. I say a new amp cures all ills. Oh heck, and while we're at it, let's grab some more guitars!

What say you?

Les is that devil in my ear. :evil:

The angel tells me to spend some money on lessons.

Pfffftttttt!! What fun is that? :dontknow:

 

[tiboy]

I say here's excuse #2. I bought a new car last week so guitar and amp purchases are on hold for the time being. I could accept one of the job offers that keep coming my way, but that sounds too much like work to me.

 

[László]

Les is that devil in my ear. :evil:

The angel tells me to spend some money on lessons.

Pfffftttttt!! What fun is that? :dontknow:

Exactly.

I say here's excuse #2. I bought a new car last week so guitar and amp purchases are on hold for the time being. I could accept one of the job offers that keep coming my way, but that sounds too much like work to me.

In the immortal words of Maynard G. Krebs, "Work?!?!?"

 

[Bluesboy998]

Les I think you and I are the only ones who know Maynard G Krebs.

 

[JustRob]

:laugh:

Les I think you and I are the only ones who know Maynard G Krebs.

Don't bet on that.

WAIT! I need gear money. Wanna bet? :laugh: