I love to see musical treasures like this find its way into the hands of the capable where it gets used and valued, instead of into the hands of a collector stripping it of its use and viewing it only as so much investment-grade art. So glad you have it!
So awesome, Andy! Congrats on the purchase!!! I live in Austin and was fortunate enough to have purchased an amp from Mr. Johnson as well - I bought a Fender Dual Showman Drip Edge from him a few years back and got to meet him in the process. I absolutely treasure this incredible amp!
I don't think that's a Plexi. I could be wrong, but it didn't look like it when he showed it. I couldn't see the actual plex material over the face. It's most likely a 70's model Super Lead (after they stopped using plexi material). 70's Super Leads were a bit warmer. I have 2 of them... 100 watts, and have owned at least 6 of them through the years. I also owned 2 real, original Plexi's. Truthfully, I like the 70's Super Leads with the metal faces better than any of the actual Plexi's I've owned... warmer, richer, and more dynamic. Plus better tone at a lower volume. Or, at least that my opinion... for what it's worth.
Your opinion is certainly worth something. Not money though. I’m not sending you any money. Sorry bud. But your opinion is to be taken seriously, because you have a resume of owning a bunch of them. I used to play through early 70s plexis. They always sounded great. I used to have a pedal called a Nady Overdrive. It was silver and pink. (Not the one with the tube, of which I have in my possession. The pedal I’m referring to isn’t tube driven). To me, it was sort of like the first Tim or Timmy. Very transparent. It was a great sounding pedal. Better than a tubescreamer, because it has separate bass and treble controls. Running that through an early 70s Plexi was a great sound.
Awesome buy!!! I know EJ through Doyle Dykes, a mutual friend, and I bought a 1964 blackface Deluxe Reverb (belonging to Doyle Dykes) that Eric took on his 2014 European tour.
There’s been many players that made great use of the plexi that all sound so different. I think the key to EJs tone is his creative use of his echoplex delay and how he modded it to affect the preamp in a way that really stands out because it does something to the amp that makes it windy with a lot of grip!
When I was a teenager in the 80s, everyone said that to get a good Marshall, they had to be modded, largely because of the whole Van Halen thing and everyone thinking that his Marshall was modded. Years and tons of experience later, and knowing more than we did back then, it’s nice to know that wasn’t the case. Congratulations on the new amp, buddy! Sounds incredible! Lookin forward to hearing more of it. 🔥👊🏼
So I could have seen Eric play with that amp when I saw him for the first time December of 1988 in a small club called the stone in San Francisco and he had two blackface Twins and two Marshall Plexi half stacks... I was standing a less than 10 feet from the stage and my ears rang forever but it didn't matter because I finally got to see this Eric Johnson guy play live and it changed my life... glad to know somebody like you is a custodian of something like this
Glad it is inspiring you, to play, and thanks for demoing it more for us. Sounds Great. I am really glad that modelling tech. and profiling/capture tech. allows us lesser financial folk to enjoy these vintage amplifiers. ME I kinda like those old Magnatones, wish the Modellers/captures would come out on those, we got TONS of PLEXIS and marshalls in general.
Congratulations! If anyone should have one of Eric's amps, it's you! Interesting EQ settings, but makes sense when you think about that Austin performance tone!
as i'm shoving yet another guitar into the wood chipper... good god... didn't know you before this video. i certainly know who you IS now! whew! closed my eyes and would swear i was hearing EJ!! just incredible playing! wow. EJ is a beast and so are you... are you also a Texan? (extra points if so!) bravo!
Hey Andy if you like his tone at the Austin City Limits Alien Love Child performance in 2000 I believe. I was there and got to check out his rig before hand and meet him back stage. It was a 100 watt Bass Plexi, and the settings where Treble 2, Middle 2, Presence 2 and Bass at 4. Both Volumes on 10 :)
He did that without the Butler tube drive. Guess it wasn't that important after all! Sounds on point Andrew. Oh real fucking cool on the purchase...I hope you keep it forever...unless you get a great offer down the road and you're strapped for cash. Who knows what the future holds?
I also own a '69 Plexi. One that was made just before the metalface transition. It was an absolute basket case and had been modded so much, and butchered, that I had to have 86 extra holes in it welded over and reground as part of the amp's restoration. But I rebuilt it to original specs with a bunch of correct and NOS parts and it's such a fantastic amp. It's the twin of your amp. Just a twin that's been through hell and back...and had reconstructive surgery.
...first time I heard EJ was Dec 1979, small place in Houston sitting at a table butted against the stage, probably not 30 people in the place (which may have been common for too many years). Saw his lips move but didn't hear a vocal...afterwards, went backstage where friend of a friend Robert was working on a trade of a Ramirez student classical for a Strat or something. Smaller community then, thru friends of friends had a Seven Worlds demo tape a decade before anything from EJ was released. And Zap still works for me...Electromagnets still some of my favorite stuff.
@@andypearce5537 I have a friend who has a 72, but it might be a 50 wt. I got a story of old, in 1972, I was at a high school gig. which was the Raspberries: They had just released their 1st album, well they had a Whole backline of new Marshall stacks, I saw one of the amp heads go up in Smoke, good thing they had a backup head. Love the sound, just alot easier today to get it thru modelling/capture technology at least for slim budget people like me.
Eric’s chordal knowledge is as good as any guitar player I’ve seen. It is the heart of his playing. For me at least, his shredding would be meaningless without the harmonies on which it is built. The arpeggio style is common to every form of music around the globe because it pleases the mind/ear, especially of those with zero musical knowledge. Whether they know it or not, there is math going on in their brain as they appreciate or identify what they’re hearing.
Neato. I've had a B.K. Butler 60W Tube Driver, tweed combo amp for many years, but I haven't been able to find out much about them aside from the fact that they sound great and seem to have a bit of a cult following. Congrats on the new toy!
DUDE... you and EJ are two of my all time favorite musicians, so... yeah... this rules! P.S. I don't believe he ever used the Fuzz Face on his lead Marshalls. The fuzz was usually in the signal path going into his "dirty rhythm" amp (Dumble/Two-Rock/Fulton-Webb/Park... to name a few I've seen him use in that position over the years)
Was that what he said in the Total Electric guitar video back in 89?? I always thought the fuzz face fed into one of the Marshalls. I know he said the Dumble was his High Powered Twin, and he used it for Dirty Rhythm, and I thought he fed it either Tubescreamer and or Bk. Butler Tube Driver.
@ksharpe10 There's been many videos of him showing his live rig since then. They're all over RUclips if you search. I've seen him live a bunch of times and even had the chance to talk with his tech after a show! It was lucky because I got to ask him about the prototype double-Fuzz Face (wild) I saw Eric using a few years earlier, which never became a thing because I guess he didn't like it, haha! He basically has three "channels" or "signal paths" that he switches between where most of the effects are always on (like a vintage way of swapping "presets" haha). The lead path with the Plexi has the BK Tube Driver, the clean path has the two Fenders, and the "dirty rhythm" path is traditionally the Dumble, but I've seen him use different amps in that position over the years (usually behind his rig, facing to the side). That's where he usually keeps the fuzz which he'll kick on and off as needed. Side-note: he usually has an old tube screamer in that signal chain as well, but rarely kicks it on because it's mainly there for the good vibes, haha... or buffer?
Damn! That sounds gorgeous, and your playing does it justice. I love a good Plexi, there's very little else that comes close. But they are punishingly loud.
Your comment is spot on, I agree 100%!! Most of us mortals can get that glorious EVH early brown tone close enough to be self-satisfied with but that EJ lead tone has been irritating me so much for almost 40 years because it’s so unattainable.
@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial agree on the tone. I was talking more about the playing. I tried to learn trail of tears from Austin City limits and it was way more challenging than any VH song.
Zap! Sounding killer Andy!!!
My dude 🧡
i still have your EJ DVD Rick, not had the balls to sit and try it yet as i know im gonna be humbled 😂
I love to see musical treasures like this find its way into the hands of the capable where it gets used and valued, instead of into the hands of a collector stripping it of its use and viewing it only as so much investment-grade art. So glad you have it!
So awesome, Andy! Congrats on the purchase!!! I live in Austin and was fortunate enough to have purchased an amp from Mr. Johnson as well - I bought a Fender Dual Showman Drip Edge from him a few years back and got to meet him in the process. I absolutely treasure this incredible amp!
Two of my favorite guitar players. EJ and Andy Wood!
Eric had an amazing ability to get a muffled tone out of one of the brightest models of amp ever made.
I close my eyes and, I swear, I thought I was listening to EJ himself at the intro. Well done 👍
There’s always something special with plexi in the way they take effect so well.
I don't think that's a Plexi. I could be wrong, but it didn't look like it when he showed it. I couldn't see the actual plex material over the face. It's most likely a 70's model Super Lead (after they stopped using plexi material). 70's Super Leads were a bit warmer. I have 2 of them... 100 watts, and have owned at least 6 of them through the years. I also owned 2 real, original Plexi's. Truthfully, I like the 70's Super Leads with the metal faces better than any of the actual Plexi's I've owned... warmer, richer, and more dynamic. Plus better tone at a lower volume.
Or, at least that my opinion... for what it's worth.
Your opinion is certainly worth something. Not money though. I’m not sending you any money. Sorry bud.
But your opinion is to be taken seriously, because you have a resume of owning a bunch of them.
I used to play through early 70s plexis. They always sounded great. I used to have a pedal called a Nady Overdrive. It was silver and pink. (Not the one with the tube, of which I have in my possession. The pedal I’m referring to isn’t tube driven). To me, it was sort of like the first Tim or Timmy. Very transparent. It was a great sounding pedal. Better than a tubescreamer, because it has separate bass and treble controls. Running that through an early 70s Plexi was a great sound.
Man I could listen to your off the cuff improv all day!
Awesome buy!!! I know EJ through Doyle Dykes, a mutual friend, and I bought a 1964 blackface Deluxe Reverb (belonging to Doyle Dykes) that Eric took on his 2014 European tour.
Man… brilliant. Thank you. You nailed all the EJ tones. In a dark moment in my life currently…thank you for brightening it up. Sincerely.
Cheers my friend. Music is a great light thru the dark patches. 🧡
Dude, your happiness with these tones makes me smile right along with you! So happy for you!
Great info and playing a + + +!!!! Epic tone!!!
You smile says it all Andy, I'm so happy for you! That amp could not have landed in better hands. Sounds like EJ for sure.
There’s been many players that made great use of the plexi that all sound so different. I think the key to EJs tone is his creative use of his echoplex delay and how he modded it to affect the preamp in a way that really stands out because it does something to the amp that makes it windy with a lot of grip!
Eric Johnson was on fire🔥 back on Austin City Limit as well SRV also.😎
Incredible playing.
Man, your passion while explaining every detail and your passionate grin, is worth every second of this!
Love how excited U R❤
When I was a teenager in the 80s, everyone said that to get a good Marshall, they had to be modded, largely because of the whole Van Halen thing and everyone thinking that his Marshall was modded. Years and tons of experience later, and knowing more than we did back then, it’s nice to know that wasn’t the case. Congratulations on the new amp, buddy! Sounds incredible! Lookin forward to hearing more of it. 🔥👊🏼
So I could have seen Eric play with that amp when I saw him for the first time December of 1988 in a small club called the stone in San Francisco and he had two blackface Twins and two Marshall Plexi half stacks... I was standing a less than 10 feet from the stage and my ears rang forever but it didn't matter because I finally got to see this Eric Johnson guy play live and it changed my life... glad to know somebody like you is a custodian of something like this
Your noodling is my dream playing. Sounds amazing!
Oh snap! Sounds amazing!
Glad it is inspiring you, to play, and thanks for demoing it more for us. Sounds Great. I am really glad that modelling tech. and profiling/capture tech. allows us lesser financial folk to enjoy these vintage amplifiers. ME I kinda like those old Magnatones, wish the Modellers/captures would come out on those, we got TONS of PLEXIS and marshalls in general.
Congrats on landing that amazing amp!! Look forward to hearing more of it!! 🤘🏻
Sounds so good!!
What a great point about his tone not sounding dated. I hadn’t thought about that but it’s true.
Andy, I love your touch and tone. The tone hunt is eternal but you seem to have it dialled in pretty well.....
Man that tone is to die for. I love EJ met him a couple of times great cat. But you def have that tone down for sure!!
Congratulations! If anyone should have one of Eric's amps, it's you! Interesting EQ settings, but makes sense when you think about that Austin performance tone!
Dude, You need to try it with a b.k. butler! I have one wanna borrow it lol.
That is one of the best clean tones I’ve ever heard. That is straight out of Andy Timmons land right there. SUPERB tones!
Andy, please do some Shawn Lane with that baby!!! Pleeease😁🙏
as i'm shoving yet another guitar into the wood chipper...
good god... didn't know you before this video. i certainly know who you IS now! whew!
closed my eyes and would swear i was hearing EJ!!
just incredible playing! wow.
EJ is a beast and so are you... are you also a Texan? (extra points if so!)
bravo!
Thanks dude! If u like my stuff check out my album Junktown.
@@andywoodmusic i'm on it.
Dreams sometimes do come true...😊 Love your great down to earth style... no cork sniffery here
Just starting this but NO WAY YOU GOT IT!😅🙌🤯 It’s in the proper hands! Now, to watch and enjoy🙏👏
Hey Andy if you like his tone at the Austin City Limits Alien Love Child performance in 2000 I believe. I was there and got to check out his rig before hand and meet him back stage. It was a 100 watt Bass Plexi, and the settings where Treble 2, Middle 2, Presence 2 and Bass at 4. Both Volumes on 10 :)
EJs the best! Binging your vids since catching the TPS show... this is #3... 😮😎🤘🎸
He did that without the Butler tube drive. Guess it wasn't that important after all! Sounds on point Andrew. Oh real fucking cool on the purchase...I hope you keep it forever...unless you get a great offer down the road and you're strapped for cash. Who knows what the future holds?
Congrats Andy, its a classic amp. 👍
The Les Paul sounded killer through it 😎
Dude!! What a frikn cool score mang! Nicely done. Freaking loving it!!
I also own a '69 Plexi. One that was made just before the metalface transition. It was an absolute basket case and had been modded so much, and butchered, that I had to have 86 extra holes in it welded over and reground as part of the amp's restoration. But I rebuilt it to original specs with a bunch of correct and NOS parts and it's such a fantastic amp. It's the twin of your amp. Just a twin that's been through hell and back...and had reconstructive surgery.
This made me happy! You are so worthy of that beauty. ❤
This is so amazing!
I had a 72 fender pa 100 built into a plexi/twin schematic, 4 six-l-six power tubes with a huge reverb tank . . .
Omg it’s perfect 😮
my favorite player. I'd love to see Andy live.
Killer sound bro
...first time I heard EJ was Dec 1979, small place in Houston sitting at a table butted against the stage, probably not 30 people in the place (which may have been common for too many years). Saw his lips move but didn't hear a vocal...afterwards, went backstage where friend of a friend Robert was working on a trade of a Ramirez student classical for a Strat or something. Smaller community then, thru friends of friends had a Seven Worlds demo tape a decade before anything from EJ was released. And Zap still works for me...Electromagnets still some of my favorite stuff.
I’m bringing my 1974 Super Lead to woodshed.
Is that also known as a MK. 2?? is yours a 100 watt or 50??
Super lead 2… 100 watt.. last year of PtP wiring
@@andypearce5537 I have a friend who has a 72, but it might be a 50 wt. I got a story of old, in 1972, I was at a high school gig. which was the Raspberries: They had just released their 1st album, well they had a Whole backline of new Marshall stacks, I saw one of the amp heads go up in Smoke, good thing they had a backup head. Love the sound, just alot easier today to get it thru modelling/capture technology at least for slim budget people like me.
HONK HONK for EJ
Sounds exactly like my fractal fm9.. 🤔😆🤘🏼✌🏼
Well I see it’s in good hands!
Nice, I’ve seen that head for like 8 yrs every year at oaks,Pa guitar show, glad it found a home
Oh maybe not that one, there is another one in oak,pa every year
Great idea!
Your smile tells the tale.....
Congrats, the Amp sounds awesome! Looking forward to more videos featuring that Amp. Thanks
SICK
Beautiful amp, nice playing too. Congratulations
Congratulations! Your style is very well suited for this amp. ❤
Congrats, new gear day of all new gear days!
Incredible playing as always Andy, you always do justice to anything EJ!
Sounds utterly fantastic in your hands Andy! 😎👌
I think it's fair to say it's in the right hands
Sounds fantastic.
Awesome video Andy
Love hearing you play brother
I’m so annoyed. Every guitar you pick up, I think I want/need. When all it really is, I want to play like you!
Andy I LOVE THIS!! I need to come over! 😮😮😮😮😮🔥🔥🔥🔥
I have the butler it was probably the last one he made but he told me he put a special tube in it of some sort I still have it brand new in a box
Congrats!! Sounds absolutely killer!!
Found you via Uncle Ben. Love your Sig Tele(above my pay grade 😊) and congrats on your dream Marshall score! Subscribed...
Congrats bud, you deserve it!!
Happy for you! Sounds great!
Love it...owned many old Marshall's ...best pure tone machines out there...but kinda,loud...lol
Congrats man that’s so cool. You’ll have to hit up EJ when he’s at Woodshed and tell him the whole story.
Eric’s chordal knowledge is as good as any guitar player I’ve seen. It is the heart of his playing. For me at least, his shredding would be meaningless without the harmonies on which it is built. The arpeggio style is common to every form of music around the globe because it pleases the mind/ear, especially of those with zero musical knowledge. Whether they know it or not, there is math going on in their brain as they appreciate or identify what they’re hearing.
You are a very very good guitar player!I am amazed!!
Phenomenal sounding Andy! Congrats for the new amp! Gearbox is crazy good
good job
HONK!!! That amp is in good hands.
Props for the Ron Fellows hat!
fellow car nut? that experience was amazing!
Neato. I've had a B.K. Butler 60W Tube Driver, tweed combo amp for many years, but I haven't been able to find out much about them aside from the fact that they sound great and seem to have a bit of a cult following. Congrats on the new toy!
One word........Damn....❤
Wait? So it’s not in the Fingers, It’s in the amp? I got to start all over again
Sounds killer! 🔥🔥🔥
The band leader coat!
DUDE... you and EJ are two of my all time favorite musicians, so... yeah... this rules!
P.S. I don't believe he ever used the Fuzz Face on his lead Marshalls. The fuzz was usually in the signal path going into his "dirty rhythm" amp (Dumble/Two-Rock/Fulton-Webb/Park... to name a few I've seen him use in that position over the years)
Was that what he said in the Total Electric guitar video back in 89?? I always thought the fuzz face fed into one of the Marshalls. I know he said the Dumble was his High Powered Twin, and he used it for Dirty Rhythm, and I thought he fed it either Tubescreamer and or Bk. Butler Tube Driver.
@ksharpe10 There's been many videos of him showing his live rig since then. They're all over RUclips if you search. I've seen him live a bunch of times and even had the chance to talk with his tech after a show! It was lucky because I got to ask him about the prototype double-Fuzz Face (wild) I saw Eric using a few years earlier, which never became a thing because I guess he didn't like it, haha!
He basically has three "channels" or "signal paths" that he switches between where most of the effects are always on (like a vintage way of swapping "presets" haha). The lead path with the Plexi has the BK Tube Driver, the clean path has the two Fenders, and the "dirty rhythm" path is traditionally the Dumble, but I've seen him use different amps in that position over the years (usually behind his rig, facing to the side). That's where he usually keeps the fuzz which he'll kick on and off as needed. Side-note: he usually has an old tube screamer in that signal chain as well, but rarely kicks it on because it's mainly there for the good vibes, haha... or buffer?
Sounds awesome Andy!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Awesome video have a good weekend
The Strat was dead on Eric Johnson tone...wow!
Yeah it’s really nuts how close that is.
Really enjoyed that
Congrats Andy great one Eric told me the two hole 69s were his favorite for lead.
Marshalls are finicky you got a really great one.
Damn! That sounds gorgeous, and your playing does it justice. I love a good Plexi, there's very little else that comes close. But they are punishingly loud.
Excellent tone! The marshall jcm 900 has a great clean tone also.
greatest amp of all time imo! =)
amps cool but that tele ! nice ... i never thought id like a trem on a tele but yours sounds great
Hot damn, how's that for a first marshall purchase. Grats! Well deserved
My two favorite guitarists are EJ and EVH. I find it way more difficult to do the EJ thing.
Your comment is spot on, I agree 100%!! Most of us mortals can get that glorious EVH early brown tone close enough to be self-satisfied with but that EJ lead tone has been irritating me so much for almost 40 years because it’s so unattainable.
@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial agree on the tone. I was talking more about the playing. I tried to learn trail of tears from Austin City limits and it was way more challenging than any VH song.
Congratulations on your life altering acquisition!
Do we see a late 60's 4x12 basket weave in your future to go with that Plexi?😁
Absolutely
@@andywoodmusic 😁👍
Sweet Riffage !