Same with Stephenson Amplifiers...Canadian too.
Kind of Odd Conversations at Gigs
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Same with Stephenson Amplifiers...Canadian too.
Clockworkmike
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Some people fall into bubbles with gear I guess, only knowing what they see all the time. You can find anyone who has no musical interests whatsoever and ask them if they've heard of Fender or Gibson and 9/10 times they know the name based solely on those companies' brand power. But it gets a lil weird when you meet someone who IS into music and playing, who doesn't know larger names. Yet, I suppose that's the bubble again.
Living in rural areas like I do for example, I can see that dilemma because A) Music shops only carry limited brands and B) People are in a small window of music genres in general. Basically around these parts: It's Fender for the masses, Gibson for a few, Ibanez and Jackson for the young start outs and amps are pretty much Peavey, Fender, Crate and sometimes a Marshall. That's it. Any bigger brands outside of these aforementioned, just don't pop up in people's minds around here.
But sadly, I'm finding out more and more, is that is the case in areas outside of where I live and in bigger regions which is yeah, kinda fascinating and bizarre at the same time lol
I guess I was both a dweeb and a weirdo ( who the hell am I fooling, I still am) in the sense of when I got into music I became obsessed with any and everything out there, who was using what and also the off-beaten path stuff. I'd read Guitar World and Guitar Player, snuck into my text books in the middle of class, looking up gear both new and old, and just being intrigued by it. I would see ads or reviews about brands and models that I knew I'd probably never touch, let alone see in my lifetime, but would totally nerd out when I would happen to stumble across one.
I still do lol
Living in rural areas like I do for example, I can see that dilemma because A) Music shops only carry limited brands and B) People are in a small window of music genres in general. Basically around these parts: It's Fender for the masses, Gibson for a few, Ibanez and Jackson for the young start outs and amps are pretty much Peavey, Fender, Crate and sometimes a Marshall. That's it. Any bigger brands outside of these aforementioned, just don't pop up in people's minds around here.
But sadly, I'm finding out more and more, is that is the case in areas outside of where I live and in bigger regions which is yeah, kinda fascinating and bizarre at the same time lol
I guess I was both a dweeb and a weirdo ( who the hell am I fooling, I still am) in the sense of when I got into music I became obsessed with any and everything out there, who was using what and also the off-beaten path stuff. I'd read Guitar World and Guitar Player, snuck into my text books in the middle of class, looking up gear both new and old, and just being intrigued by it. I would see ads or reviews about brands and models that I knew I'd probably never touch, let alone see in my lifetime, but would totally nerd out when I would happen to stumble across one.
I still do lol
Nobody???
Dickey Betts formed The Jokers sometime in 1962 with a guy named Tom Kiefaber. At that time, Bobby Johns was on drums and Harold Miracle on guitar along with Dickey.
The lineup changed around 1965, but according to Joe Dan Petty, they didn’t have a keyboard player until the band evolved into The Soul Children around 1966, when Dale Betts came onboard as the organ player and Larry Reinhardt on guitar.
The Soul Children would become Second Coming, and this would eventually evolve into the Allman Brother's Band.
Joe Dan Petty said he formed an early band called Grinderswitch along with a buddy of his named Drew Lombar, and Lombar would later go on to create a band project called Dr. Hector and the Blues Injectors in their native Jacksonville Florida.
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I guess that sort of describes my slightly baffled reaction. I was much the same way - diving into guitar magazines and geeking out over new things, even if I never expected to own them. I also seemed to end up around others who were better players than me and had more than I did, so I tended to get exposed to stuff by accident.
For me, i grew up in a household where it was 1950's Country or 1950's Blues/R&B and ANY kind of hard rock was absolutely forbidden.
This only made me more curious about rock n roll in general and i fell in love with Leslie West's guitar tone on Mississippi Queen and I've been addicted to that sound ever since.
Musically, i don't love everything i hear and i don't follow any social norms or trends.
For example, i have never been able to get all the way through a song by The Who. I can find absolutely nothing interesting about their work and I have no plans to listen to anything else by them.
I learned a TON of songs that i had NEVER heard before because a bandleader added it to our setlist. Had those songs not been added, i would have NEVER even listened to them.
A very good example is Neil Young's Cinammon Girl. I couldn't bring myself to endure his singing voice and the lacklustre guitar tone, so i would pop in a cassette whenever he cam on, but i wss told to learn it and learn it i did.
But, because my Mom worked in the music industry, i was "in tine" with what was going on in different genres and who playrd guitar for who, etc., plus i was attending the CMA Awards since i was a child. I literally grew up in the music industry.
We had to kill several containers of Jacksons for mis-machined nut slots and factory-stripped lock nut screws.
When i started failing these, the brass got alarmed because we had already passed several containerloads of them, so they pulled a few samples from those containers - which had already been "passed" by other work stations - and they were far worse than the photo posted above.
I failed a ton of guitars...
You want to know which guitars were absolute poop??? The EVH Wolfgangs.
The absolute BEST guitars i saw at Fender were the Charvels.
A few Fenders made it through my QC, but not many...
When i started failing these, the brass got alarmed because we had already passed several containerloads of them, so they pulled a few samples from those containers - which had already been "passed" by other work stations - and they were far worse than the photo posted above.
I failed a ton of guitars...
You want to know which guitars were absolute poop??? The EVH Wolfgangs.
The absolute BEST guitars i saw at Fender were the Charvels.
A few Fenders made it through my QC, but not many...
eclecticsynergy
Ambassador of Electric Synergy
I had no idea Rhino had been in the Soul Children. Thanks for that.
The first Captain Beyond album blew my mind when it came out.
Still a favorite.
One of our forum mebers now owns Rhino's complete rig; purple guitar, Rhino strap and Marshall Valvestate amplifier.
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
I was under the impression that Reese Wynans was also in the Jokers, but he was only with the Second Coming, the initial jam that became the Allman Brothers Band, a short stay in Captain Beyond, and eventually with Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble.
But I had known Dickie Betts was in The Jokers since I was a kid. Dancing slowly backwards while typing, I have been a fan of Captain Beyond since I first heard them in the late seventies. By then, their records were out of print, and I had to always scour the used record stores until I found their first and third records.
I love this kind of trivia!!!