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Re: OT: Bay Area Music stores/Thanks!

7/24/2003 4:02 AM
aron	Re: OT: Bay Area Music stores/Thanks! Thanks everyone! I just went to the usual - Guitar Center, Showcase, Starving etc.... It turns out my friend Oliver has all the equipment to drool over! I played a Diesel (sp?) amp - wow, amazing. Those 4 channels are very cool. A good clean, crunch, slightly sedated Marshall and Soldano channel. This amp is pretty killer and has MIDI too!??? It's also very heavy! I also got to play a Two-Rock modded Bassman. IMO, the mods don't _look_ that great, but the amp sure did. Channel switching, tone stack bypass and overdrive made this amp pretty cool. It was a modded silver face amp; was fun to play. I also got to play '57 and '59 strats - a very good Torres strat, a number of guitars in the Showcase $$$$ room - including a flying V with split headstock. I also played a couple of ES-336s and about 15 or so Strats. I found one I really liked but realized a little later it was tuned low. Oh well. Aron

7/24/2003 4:02 AM

aron

Re: OT: Bay Area Music stores/Thanks!

Thanks everyone!

I just went to the usual - Guitar Center, Showcase, Starving etc....

It turns out my friend Oliver has all the equipment to drool over!

I played a Diesel (sp?) amp - wow, amazing. Those 4 channels are very cool. A good clean, crunch, slightly sedated Marshall and Soldano channel.

This amp is pretty killer and has MIDI too!???

It's also very heavy!

I also got to play a Two-Rock modded Bassman.

IMO, the mods don't _look_ that great, but the amp sure did. Channel switching, tone stack bypass and overdrive made this amp pretty cool.

It was a modded silver face amp; was fun to play.

I also got to play '57 and '59 strats - a very good Torres strat, a number of guitars in the Showcase $$$$ room - including a flying V with split headstock. I also played a couple of ES-336s and about 15 or so Strats.

I found one I really liked but realized a little later it was tuned low. Oh well.

Aron