N.A.D. for Greg - it's one louder over here - classic Marshall w/ pics!

jonny deep said:
Lol - keep going - I like a good rant.
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Lol, no I'm about done with Dallas. I think I'll shift my focus to Austin. That's another suckass city. Austin is like Dallas but more hipster. Austin is like the Portland, Oregon of the south, but without the integrity. Portland people actually believe they're doing the right thing with their whacked out local organic farming and hipster ideals. Austin people only do those things because they want to appear cool. Austin is the home of dirty trust fund hippie wannabes that don't drive the BMW their parents bought them because it's cooler to squat and beg on the corner for money. The college fratboys at the University of Texas get a good head start at a life of douchebaggery for when they inevitably relocate to Dallas. The Austin music scene gets a lot of press for being "the live music capital of the universe". Sure, it's fine, if you like cheesy dated ZZ Top wannabe blues rock or talentless indie folk acoustic crap. And Austin is like 3 streets of bars all crammed together. Great for a pub crawl, terrible for everything else. And watch the crackheads. That little "scene" area of Austin is literally surrounded with junkies and crackheads. Literally. It's like The Walking Dead over there. Like zombies, Austin's junkies and crackheads are slow and easy to get away from, but if they surround you, you're done. If you want to play superhero, there's no shortage of women scared to walk back to their cars. You can escort them and keep the junkies at bay and look like a real gentleman. I heard better live music in NYC in one week than I have in 20 years of going to Austin. One afternoon in New Orleans on an otherwise benign tuesday will musically destroy anything Austin can muster up. There are 13 yr old black kids playing 5 string guitars and plastic bucket drums in the French Quarter that will blow your mind.....and they tap dance by gluing bottle caps to the bottoms of their shoes while doing it. So yeah, Austin sucks cock too, but the shit of Austin is more localized to certain areas. It's not the widespread douchebaggery that Dallas has. The rest of Austin is a pretty normal city. Austin is considerably prettier than Dallas though. Beautiful geography around Austin. Dallas, like Houston, is flat, huge, spread out and uninspiring. Austin is smack in the middle of the Texas hill country, and it's quite nice out there.
 
Greg_L said:
Lol, no I'm about done with Dallas. I think I'll shift my focus to Austin. That's another suckass city. Austin is like Dallas but more hipster. Austin is like the Portland, Oregon of the south, but without the integrity. Portland people actually believe they're doing the right thing with their whacked out local organic farming and hipster ideals. Austin people only do those things because they want to appear cool. Austin is the home of dirty trust fund hippie wannabes that don't drive the BMW their parents bought them because it's cooler to squat and beg on the corner for money. The college fratboys at the University of Texas get a good head start at a life of douchebaggery for when they inevitably relocate to Dallas. The Austin music scene gets a lot of press for being "the live music capital of the universe". Sure, it's fine, if you like cheesy dated ZZ Top wannabe blues rock or talentless indie folk acoustic crap. And Austin is like 3 streets of bars all crammed together. Great for a pub crawl, terrible for everything else. And watch the crackheads. That little "scene" area of Austin is literally surrounded with junkies and crackheads. Literally. It's like The Walking Dead over there. Like zombies, Austin's junkies and crackheads are slow and easy to get away from, but if they surround you, you're done. If you want to play superhero, there's no shortage of women scared to walk back to their cars. You can escort them and keep the junkies at bay and look like a real gentleman. I heard better live music in NYC in one week than I have in 20 years of going to Austin. One afternoon in New Orleans on an otherwise benign tuesday will musically destroy anything Austin can muster up. There are 13 yr old black kids playing 5 string guitars and plastic bucket drums in the French Quarter that will blow your mind.....and they tap dance by gluing bottle caps to the bottoms of their shoes while doing it. So yeah, Austin sucks cock too, but the shit of Austin is more localized to certain areas. It's not the widespread douchebaggery that Dallas has. The rest of Austin is a pretty normal city. Austin is considerably prettier than Dallas though. Beautiful geography around Austin. Dallas, like Houston, is flat, huge, spread out and uninspiring. Austin is smack in the middle of the Texas hill country, and it's quite nice out there.
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I watched a bit of that Portland sitcom/sketch show with Fred Armisen (I think his name is). It's not a very good show, but I see similarities between their satire and your description of Portland!

You make Austin sound like Fresno, California - I saw a documentary showing how pretty much the whole city's addicted to meth. There are tent ghettos there, it's like Pakistan after a flood or earthquake or something. All this in the richest country in the world - it's amazing!
 
jonny deep said:
I watched a bit of that Portland sitcom/sketch show with Fred Armisen (I think his name is). It's not a very good show, but I see similarities between their satire and your description of Portland!

You make Austin sound like Fresno, California - I saw a documentary showing how pretty much the whole city's addicted to meth. There are tent ghettos there, it's like Pakistan after a flood or earthquake or something. All this in the richest country in the world - it's amazing!
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Awww man, I LOVE Portlandia. Great show. Portlanders really are like that, and the show could easily spawn a spin-off called Austindia. I knew about Portland before though, so I quickly got the joke. I can imagine it might seem pretty uninteresting to someone that isn't familiar with Portland's ridiculousness.

I've never been to Fresno, but it does seem pretty bad. Phoenix has a really bad meth problem too. The US is getting to be like the former Soviet Union. A paper champion. We're a fucked up third world society full of morons disguised as a superpower.
 
i used to have an ampeg ss-150 1x12

i could turn that baby wide open with controlled feedback with a telecaster and a dod bi-fet preamp pedal

as soon as i took my fingers off a string it would sing loud and clear

i had a musicman hd120 4x10 that did the same thing only a little less defined

god i wish i had those amps back
 
i turned all the tone controls at my disposal all the way down and the volumes all the way up and magic happened

i could even do it with my yamaha classical guitar with a schaller oyster pickup

that was around 1991
 
Used the JMP last night at band practice. It was awesome. I played way louder than I should have and didn't give a fuck. Whatever the tech did made a difference. Very pleased.
 
Put a proper logo on the head cab today, well, it's proper for the late 60s/early 70s Plexi-style head cab. A correct 1979 head cab looks more like the traditional white piping, large logo head cabs. The large logo doesn't work with these head boxes, so I went with the older style. It's a little crooked, but it looks cool! Like it's been on there for decades. Lol. I also put some proper Marshall feet on it instead of those hockey pucks that were on it when I got it. Now it sits on the pads of the speaker cab just like it's supposed to. No slip-sliding around anymore.

 
I just saw this thread. My favorite amp is also a Marshall Plexi. I used a 50watt lead for years in the clubs. To this day, I have never played an amp that sounded as good. I recently bought a Class 5 combo. Its not quite a lead 50, but its a great little amp that was designed to be a mini plexi. Its perfect for recording!
 
Yeah Plexis/Super Leads are great, they're just too clean for my typical style unless they're jet engine loud. I'd certainly love to have one some day, but they're not high on my wish list. There's other Marshalls that I jive better with. I didn't like the Class 5 at first, but it's grown on me lately. I think they sound really nice through a big proper cab.
 
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