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Billy Gibbons' AMP(s) revisited...

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10/9/1999 2:11 PM
Fj	Billy Gibbons' AMP(s) revisited... Well I must say...WHAT-A-TONE!!!...lots-O-rack mount stuff...Marshall stuff...BUT... on stage he had >>>6<<< 4X12's!... and just ONE visible amp (that had a little "spot lite" on it at ALL times...a TWEED PRO.SUPER, oR DELUXE!...wide panel one w / the chrome bar dwn the middle!...FWIW...Frank....absolutely the coolest LIVE TONE I've heard in a LONG-TIME!

10/9/1999 3:31 PM
Steve A.	Fj: Do you think that the tweed amp was there just for "show", or maybe all of the other amps were slaved off of it? Steve Ahola

10/9/1999 4:37 PM

Did anyone catch the Reverend on David Letterman earlier this week? He and Dusty were playing through what looked like a tweed style bassman combo covered in balck tolex. The each used two, stackd one on the other. Gibbons was playling a Tele style guitar with a single humbucker and 2 goofy looking attenna-like things attached to the front (curb feelers?). I wasn't too impressed with his playing, REALLY laid back, but the sound - Fat,FAt, FAT!! It sounded like he was tuned down but I'm not positive. No boxes were visible. Mike

10/9/1999 4:52 PM
Steve A.	He and Dusty were playing through what looked like a tweed style bassman combo covered in black tolex. That must have been the new black tolex version of the Peavey Classic 50-410 I keep hearing about... NOT! < g > Steve Ahola

10/10/1999 1:41 AM
Fj	IMHO I think that yeah the Tweed was the 1st AMP in CHAIN...it just had that "LOOSE-vibe" kinda sensitivity thing...he also had a little TWEED CHAMP which I believe was converted into sort of a funky stomp-box fixture...it had @ 5-6 "PANDORAS BOX" pedals tied together on it!...Man is that man SMOOTH!...TONE+++++++++++++++!

10/11/1999 6:37 PM
Mark Hammer	Do you mean Pandora or Expandora? The former is a modest Korg digital multi-fx box, the latter is an analog distortion unit. A GP article within recent memory has a picture of a "tree"-type rack with 6 Expandoras on it. I assume it is the second you mean. The thought of someone running out and buying a bunch of Pandoras to get Gibbons-tone is a little surreal.

10/10/1999 4:43 AM
Bob S.	I'm sure you've got a sense of humor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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