Lee is always apologizing in these videos for how they got off topic reminiscing.. but I could watch Lee and Rob going on about their old gear and gigs alllllllll day!
I agree. I don't even have a need for the second channel on a regular basis, though I am subscribed. Lee, the team, and the guests are always so knowledgeable and helpful.
Lee, for the love of Crom, stop apologizing for reminiscing. That’s one of the things we love about your channel. I could watch a 6 hour video of you guys talking about your lives in guitar. Never lose your enthusiasm for the art. It’s infectious. 🎉
This channel makes me feel like I'm with family, just being relaxed and enjoying the music and convo. Thank you both, and everyone that contributed to make these possible. 100 👍
honestly the telling of stories is some of the bests parts of you and rob together. I wish you could do more videos together centered around just jamming and telling tales of old.
Can totally recall every amp I've ever owned: -Dad's 1964 Magnatone -Holmes 20 watt solid state - 1987 Marshall JCM 800 2205 with a 1960A - Fender Super 60 (because the Marshall croaked and I couldn't afford to repair it. A music store swapped the cabinet and gave me the Fender) - Marshall Valvestate 100 2x12 Combo (pedal platform. Used a Digitech RP-12 for all my tones) -Line 6 AX 212 (Absolute shit).. -Mesa Rectifier Solo 50 with Standard Recto 4x12 (kept this until 2 years ago) -Mesa Mark V (sold) -Mesa JP 2C (sold) -Mesa TC 50 Combo (sold) -Kemper 600 watt with Cabinet (sold) -Mesa JP2C (yes, again) with compact Recto 2x12 (best cab ever) -Revv G50 with 2 x12. If you're still with me, thanks. LOL
I have a moderate amp collection and some digital stuff and I've only gotten to use the Revv G stuff digitally. I'd love to get one irl someday! Cheers mate!
Let’s see if I can do that…. Ross 15 watt 1/10combo that sucked Marshall MG15 Crate 2x12 gxr or grt something like that Fender Red Knob 2x12 pos that died a week after I bought it at a pawn shop Line 6 Spider 1 212 Quit playing for 10 years Fender Mustang Vox AC4 Danelectro Dirty 70 Fender Mustang v 1 iii And I’ve had a peavey bandit for the last 10 years and haven’t looked back.
My first gigging rig was a Peavey Studio 110 red stripe and an Epiphone Les Paul- no pedals. And the worst gig we ever played- turned out to be the best. Our drummer booked us without saying a word to any of us, we had only been together for about 6 weeks- we didn't have enough material worked out to do a show- not even close. That said, we felt we couldn't back out- we were booked, so we play- that's how it works. But- we decided not to charge the guy who was throwing the party- and to tell the crowd that we just got together and basically were just going to have an open practice session and let them listen. There was between 150 and 200 ppl there- and it became a really fun, intimate venue where the ppl got to interact with us, watch us make mistakes, watch us work stuff out- and they loved it. They would ask for a song, it would take us 2-3 tries to get it right, but then we would play it for them- and they ate it up. We let ppl get up and sing- they loved that as well. It turned out to be the most fun I have ever had at any show- and I met my wife that night. X wife now, but that's my fault really- and a much sadder, longer story I don't want to get into. We were together for 10 yrs though so- that night had a huge influence on the rest of my life.
Sounds like the shows I do now 😂 Kelly’s Irish pub Mudgee had a guy from the crowd want to sing brown eyed girl, so we let him. Totally winged it and it actually went off.
Only halfway through so far, and it’s already an absolute pleasure to watch this. These videos have been part of my life for so many years and this kind of content is such a joy. Total props to these two lovely fellas - entertainers and talents, both.
Would love to see more videos with anecdotes from the past! Not only entertaining but probably some good lessons in there for guys just starting to gig. Would also love to see you guys choose a first gigging rig if your teenage self time travelled to now!
Hugh Janus reminds me of the time in the late 90's when my best friend and i were hanging out at the airport watching the jets take off ( you used to be able to do those kind of things) and we got the idea to prank the baggage claim desk by speaking with a middle eastern accent, saying we couldnt find our uncle and asking them to page Meidikus Flauping over the intercom. When we heard "my dick is flopping, please report to baggage claim" we were rolling on the floor laughing. 😂
YES, bring back a new range of British built Valvestates ! Apart from the occasional scratchy pot, my 1993 first version model 8040 1x12 combo is still going strong.
This was one of the most enjoable Andertons videos I remember seeing in a long time. Made me nostalgic about the old bandana-wearing Rob and blue Andertons t-shirt wearing Lee videos.
Great video. And I love we are back at variety of presenters. With Pete, John, Ozz and now Chappers also. Very good, very goo. Keep it up. Great work Lee and The Team ❤
In 1977 my rig was a 1964 AC30 Top Boost and a 1977 hardtail Strat, bought new. I was 17 years old. What a great time it was. Still playing now, every week.
You guys take the cake for a guitar channel, absolutely wonderful content. I have been on a 3 week binge watching your videos, wondering why i have never seen your stuff before, Andertons needs to open in US.
... CHILL ABOUT THE APOLOGIES! It's a very, VERY BRITISH THING! 😸 ROB! YOU PLAYED YOUR MOM! I ONLY GOT TO DO THAT ONE TIME, BUT IT'S A VERY, VERY VIVID MEMORY FOR ME! I only played out in clubs for about 6 years, but they are ABSOLUTELY some of my BEST MEMORIES!!!!!!!!!!!
Lee my man you are too modest - that solo you did at the end was amazing and you cut yourself off! Also the pun about you being a stripper in a music club was genius.
How great to see how Captain loosens up and give some insight in him. I always thougt he was a great guy, - and he proves it here. And he is a better guitar player then he thinks.
Love it! So many memories of similar equipment and early gig experiences of same era . It’s worth remembering that with no internet the only knowledge you had of gear etc was from Guitarist magazine and what your local music store actually stocked. #bringbackvalvestate.
I went to school with Rich and Geoff and saw their band a few times, Geoff's career was cut short by a tragic accident. I can confirm he was an incredibly sweet guy R.I.P.
I had a JCM900 50w head and 4x12 back in the mid 90s, then I bought a 1x12 Boogie DC3 combo and it blew the Marshall away...I've had the Boogie over 25 years and it's still better and more versatile than most amps!
Mine was an Epiphone Les Paul Jr through a Crate Blue Voodoo with a Dunlap distortion pedal! I loved it and made great memories playing at these coffee shops that had rock bands in the early 2000s
15:58! Lee! That's amazing! Friends of mine had a cover band here about 25 years ago that played all over the place called...Big Dictator and the Well Hungarians!
I'm a bass player who plays AT everything else. My bass rig history isn't embarrassing. But my "playing guitar in public" gig history kind of would be. The first band I played guitar in was a friend's band. He'd broken his arm and needed someone to cover his rhythm parts while he sang. I figured I could do that for a couple months. That guitar was an Explorer copy, by Hondo. My dad was an Electrical Engineer. He and I had re-wrapped the pickups in a few of my guitars. The Explorer had the most successful set of those. I used my friend, Pete's amp, because mine was only good for bedroom volume. His amp was a Lab Series L5, a fire breathing monster of a solid state amp. It was probably the most effective solid state guitar amp I ever heard before digital stuff existed. Second public guitar rig was infinitely more serious, nearly a decade later: MIJ Fender Strat into a Bedrock BC50 amp.
My first gigged rig 2010 Epiphone SG Special (sticker bombed with punk band stickers) Peavey Windsor 100 watt tube head and matching cabinet Used the boost switch for solos and also had an Ibanez tube screamer ts9dx to push the amp harder Still have the guitar and it still sounds and plays great!
funnyly enough I kinda get the point of the Laney powered cab: it's not for gigging musicians - it's for the clubs and their backline! In a world where more and more people tour with modellers these things actually serve a purpose for small venues where the backline sound does matter a bunch. I work a club like that and just running the guitars through the PA sounds ass since our small club has a small PA.
My first gig rig was a brand new CIJ 1998 Jazzmaster, some sort of Peavey 40w nonsense combo amp, a DS1, and a Dunlop Wah. Horrific tone, but great memories. 😂
I have that Marshall 9004 rack preamp sitting in a rack across the room from me right now. Actually, I have a refrigerator-sized rack full of all those now-vintage preamps….ADA’s, Rocktrons, Marshalls, Haflers, Digitechs, Tube Works, ARTs, etc. Still love plugging into them!
Great video, really enjoyed the stories. My first proper rig was pretty cool - at Uni in Cardiff I managed to find a Marshall Jubilee 2555 and 1973 Marshall 4x12 in the back room of Broadway Music. Paid £450 for both! Thank you student loan!
I used a JMP-1 for years, and then a Rocktron Voodu Valve, which I purchased from Soho Soundhouse in the early noughties, then back to a JMP-1 again. Both of those were awesome pieces of kit, but the Voodu had all the effects you'd need as well, which meant it could cover everything, and we all know how good Rocktron effects are.
A friend's band had won a battle of the bands at a local Frankston pub. Part of the prize was four Sunday afternoon gigs in the main bar. I noticed while they were setting up, the patronage was a dozen old fellas quietly sitting around with a beer. The guys got on stage, introduced themselves and tore through Born To Be Wild. When the song finished some old bloke yelled "Fair enough fellas, we're trying to watch the golf"
First amp. Marshall MG15, Marchall Class 5, Harmony H400 (that i rebuilt), Orange Tiny Terror, Seymour Duncan Convertible, EVH 5150 lunchbox head, OR15, Blackstar ST James. Only time I've ever played live...borrowed my dads Yamaha acoustic guitar.
I wish I have my first rig. Fender 1966 Duo Sonic II with a Dan Armstrong Blue Clipper (box plugged into the guitar) and a Peavey (not sure the model but it had a 12" speaker and was solid state...and LOUD). I loved it and miss every bit of that rig.
I’m glad to hear that we all did the same things. Like smelling the gear at a shop. Hahaha. The smell of a new Marshall cabinet was just the best thing ever. I still go into shops and give them a sniff. Hahaha. Sadly the owner of the shop I used to go to recently passed away.
First rig: Squier black Strat and giant Fender amp - too big for an amp in a New York apartment (or flat, for the Andertons folks :). I think I had to keep the volume knob on .25 and that was even still too loud. I can't remember what happened to it.
First gig rig for me was either a Marshall MG100 half stack with a multi-effect pedal by Yamaha and a Mexican made Fender Strat. I didn't even know how to work the Yamaha pedal other than using the Chorus, Delay/Reverb and using the overdrive as a solo boost. Used the bare bones settings I could but the band got through it and it was a great little run with them. Seems like a lifetime ago.
My band played a gig at Wombwell Working Men's club near Barnsley in 1990 on the day of the England V Germany world cup semi final which was being shown in the other room! You can guess how many people were watching us!
Rob's story about the JEM reminds me of a story Brian Blessed told, about when he was a child he met the artist Picasso and asked him to draw him a picture. Picasso drew a picture of a bird, and Brian asked what it was, to which he replied, ''it's a dove.'' Young Brian wasn't impressed, and said, ''that's not a dove!'' Then gave him the picture back. That picture, many years later, sold, I think it was for ten's of millions of pounds. It was a life changing amount of money anyhow. 😱
The Marshall preamp with tubes was the 9001, and the Valvestate one was the 9004, and that was the one that was only a few inches deep. The 9001 was deeper than that.
i first started playing guitar in the very late 90s, and as a newbie i didnt understand rack setups at all. once i pieced it together, it looked expensive and had way too many moving parts, so i vowed to never deal with racks. now im an adult and i work in IT, my life is nothing but racks...
Lee is always apologizing in these videos for how they got off topic reminiscing.. but I could watch Lee and Rob going on about their old gear and gigs alllllllll day!
I agree. I don't even have a need for the second channel on a regular basis, though I am subscribed. Lee, the team, and the guests are always so knowledgeable and helpful.
Best duo ever. The chemistry is bonkers. I do love pete aswell but totaly different vibe.
That’s why we’re here!
Right? Thinking about even making a reply video!! Could be a cool "pass it around, make a reply" kind of thing and see everyone else's setups!!
Seconded.
Lee, for the love of Crom, stop apologizing for reminiscing. That’s one of the things we love about your channel. I could watch a 6 hour video of you guys talking about your lives in guitar. Never lose your enthusiasm for the art. It’s infectious. 🎉
Lee is in great shape for 52. Looks like he's in his late 30s - early forties.
That's because he quit playing in dives..no cigs or booze. LOL
More stories, make these longer. This is one of the best Chappers/Captain videos! Please make more of these!
Totally agree. Unexpectedly good this one.
Came here to say this. These sort of videos are awesome !
Mad respect to Rob for selling his JEM to save his cat's life. Way beyond cool.
Yeah he's a real.... jem
Well said. He is a Jem of a guy.
I won't say what I would have done to the cat..LOL
Stupid.
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Honestly one of the best Andertons videos. Like being down the pub with two mates.
This channel makes me feel like I'm with family, just being relaxed and enjoying the music and convo. Thank you both, and everyone that contributed to make these possible. 100 👍
Oh man, that Ibanez story is brutal
Possibly my favourite Andertons video gents...I loved those stories. RIP Geoff Wilderbeast. ❤❤
honestly the telling of stories is some of the bests parts of you and rob together. I wish you could do more videos together centered around just jamming and telling tales of old.
that was definitely one of the most entertaining chats you guys ever had! Pretty fun to listen to these stories from decades ago.
Lee is 3 years older than Rob, but looks 5 years younger. Guess which one had a run as a working musician...
Ha ha Ha....
You two just chatting has been the most interesting video you’ve guys done for months… shoulda kept going!
Can totally recall every amp I've ever owned:
-Dad's 1964 Magnatone
-Holmes 20 watt solid state
- 1987 Marshall JCM 800 2205 with a 1960A
- Fender Super 60 (because the Marshall croaked and I couldn't afford to repair it. A music store swapped the cabinet and gave me the Fender)
- Marshall Valvestate 100 2x12 Combo (pedal platform. Used a Digitech RP-12 for all my tones)
-Line 6 AX 212 (Absolute shit)..
-Mesa Rectifier Solo 50 with Standard Recto 4x12 (kept this until 2 years ago)
-Mesa Mark V (sold)
-Mesa JP 2C (sold)
-Mesa TC 50 Combo (sold)
-Kemper 600 watt with Cabinet (sold)
-Mesa JP2C (yes, again) with compact Recto 2x12 (best cab ever)
-Revv G50 with 2 x12.
If you're still with me, thanks. LOL
I have a moderate amp collection and some digital stuff and I've only gotten to use the Revv G stuff digitally. I'd love to get one irl someday! Cheers mate!
@@zaquemwhc I only currently own the last two on my list. They cover all the ground I need I think.
@@wurm90125 I believe it a Revv G & JP2C is a killer combo, do you run stereo rigs with them?
@@zaquemwhc not yet. I tend to use them for different things and as such they’re dialed in very differently. I may explore that down the road.
Let’s see if I can do that….
Ross 15 watt 1/10combo that sucked
Marshall MG15
Crate 2x12 gxr or grt something like that
Fender Red Knob 2x12 pos that died a week after I bought it at a pawn shop
Line 6 Spider 1 212
Quit playing for 10 years
Fender Mustang
Vox AC4
Danelectro Dirty 70
Fender Mustang v 1 iii
And I’ve had a peavey bandit for the last 10 years and haven’t looked back.
Guitars are important, but kitty>guitar every time.
My first gigging rig was a Peavey Studio 110 red stripe and an Epiphone Les Paul- no pedals. And the worst gig we ever played- turned out to be the best. Our drummer booked us without saying a word to any of us, we had only been together for about 6 weeks- we didn't have enough material worked out to do a show- not even close. That said, we felt we couldn't back out- we were booked, so we play- that's how it works. But- we decided not to charge the guy who was throwing the party- and to tell the crowd that we just got together and basically were just going to have an open practice session and let them listen. There was between 150 and 200 ppl there- and it became a really fun, intimate venue where the ppl got to interact with us, watch us make mistakes, watch us work stuff out- and they loved it. They would ask for a song, it would take us 2-3 tries to get it right, but then we would play it for them- and they ate it up. We let ppl get up and sing- they loved that as well. It turned out to be the most fun I have ever had at any show- and I met my wife that night. X wife now, but that's my fault really- and a much sadder, longer story I don't want to get into. We were together for 10 yrs though so- that night had a huge influence on the rest of my life.
I have a USA made red stripe Studio Pro and its just a great amp...
That was a beautiful story!
Sounds like the shows I do now 😂 Kelly’s Irish pub Mudgee had a guy from the crowd want to sing brown eyed girl, so we let him. Totally winged it and it actually went off.
Best episode in recent memory! Great to hear all the reminiscences, thanks for sharing, guys!
I love these kinds of videos where you guys just tell stories and have a laugh! We need more of these!!
Only halfway through so far, and it’s already an absolute pleasure to watch this. These videos have been part of my life for so many years and this kind of content is such a joy. Total props to these two lovely fellas - entertainers and talents, both.
it is so much fun listening to these two talk
Would love to see more videos with anecdotes from the past! Not only entertaining but probably some good lessons in there for guys just starting to gig. Would also love to see you guys choose a first gigging rig if your teenage self time travelled to now!
Hugh Janus reminds me of the time in the late 90's when my best friend and i were hanging out at the airport watching the jets take off ( you used to be able to do those kind of things) and we got the idea to prank the baggage claim desk by speaking with a middle eastern accent, saying we couldnt find our uncle and asking them to page Meidikus Flauping over the intercom.
When we heard "my dick is flopping, please report to baggage claim" we were rolling on the floor laughing. 😂
YES, bring back a new range of British built Valvestates ! Apart from the occasional scratchy pot, my 1993 first version model 8040 1x12 combo is still going strong.
And don't forget that Vai basically got Ibanez to make a 7-string, which spawned a whole branch of bands and music throughout the next decades.
This is one of the best videos on this channel
I love it when you two jam...miss the old days.
This was one of the most enjoable Andertons videos I remember seeing in a long time. Made me nostalgic about the old bandana-wearing Rob and blue Andertons t-shirt wearing Lee videos.
Rob's brother introducing himself : "my name is jeff"
Me also introducing myself "my name is jeff"
"The cat or the guitar?" Lee and I would be great friends if we didn't live thousands of miles apart. 😅
Great video. And I love we are back at variety of presenters. With Pete, John, Ozz and now Chappers also.
Very good, very goo. Keep it up.
Great work Lee and The Team ❤
welcome back Rob and Lee. thank you 👍
Love hearing stories, thank you for sharing ! Cheers
Nothing wrong with selling a guitar to save your cat, a very noble thing.
In 1977 my rig was a 1964 AC30 Top Boost and a 1977 hardtail Strat, bought new. I was 17 years old. What a great time it was. Still playing now, every week.
I remember those MSGs from back when I started learning guitar in 1994. Saw a photo in a guitar magazine and fell in love
What a great video!!!!!! Please do more of these!
I really love when these two are together
You guys take the cake for a guitar channel, absolutely wonderful content. I have been on a 3 week binge watching your videos, wondering why i have never seen your stuff before, Andertons needs to open in US.
1980 Maya Strat, homemade 5w SS Combo with 4x8 speakers. Homemade leads, homemade fuzz box in a tobacco tin.
First ever gigged rig:
Rockwood LX90
Zoom505
LaneyGC120
18 years old, I thought I was M-A-F!
Halcyon Days! 🤘🤠🤘
I had the same guitar and multi-effect - but a really shitty practice amp that I blew up at some point.
Jesus, Rob's first rig's better than mine now😂😂. Floral Jem? "Yeah, no big deal I traded a Charvel and a Yamaha for it" 😂
I could have watched hours of that reminiscing. Lovely stuff, trips down memory lane, the odd riff thrown in. ❤
... CHILL ABOUT THE APOLOGIES! It's a very, VERY BRITISH THING! 😸 ROB! YOU PLAYED YOUR MOM! I ONLY GOT TO DO THAT ONE TIME, BUT IT'S A VERY, VERY VIVID MEMORY FOR ME! I only played out in clubs for about 6 years, but they are ABSOLUTELY some of my BEST MEMORIES!!!!!!!!!!!
This video is brilliant!
Cheers Chappers & the Captain!
Very glad to see the 2 of you back together! Definitely missed this show the last few years.
My first 'rig' was a Peavey Deuce tube amp and a Fender Telecaster.
I got them for my 14th birthday in 1974.
I still have the Telecaster
Captain & Chapman = best andertons videos, have a wonderful day and thank you!
Lee my man you are too modest - that solo you did at the end was amazing and you cut yourself off! Also the pun about you being a stripper in a music club was genius.
My first rig: Ibanez GIO GRX70 (black), no-name 1x10 amplifier, and Boss ML-2 Metalcore. Still remember it fondly.
How great to see how Captain loosens up and give some insight in him. I always thougt he was a great guy, - and he proves it here. And he is a better guitar player then he thinks.
Love it! So many memories of similar equipment and early gig experiences of same era .
It’s worth remembering that with no internet the only knowledge you had of gear etc was from Guitarist magazine and what your local music store actually stocked.
#bringbackvalvestate.
I went to school with Rich and Geoff and saw their band a few times, Geoff's career was cut short by a tragic accident. I can confirm he was an incredibly sweet guy R.I.P.
Half Moon. Oh gosh a memory.
I had a JCM900 50w head and 4x12 back in the mid 90s, then I bought a 1x12 Boogie DC3 combo and it blew the Marshall away...I've had the Boogie over 25 years and it's still better and more versatile than most amps!
I still have my Marshall 9000, bought it 2nd hand from a shop in west london.
After all these years it is only now i'm classed as gigging. I use a Ibanez GB and a Roland JC40
I had a Yamaha MSG at one time. I sold it to a friend, he still has it a lovely guitar.
You gents bring a smile to the face. Thanks and Many Cheers!
Mine was an Epiphone Les Paul Jr through a Crate Blue Voodoo with a Dunlap distortion pedal! I loved it and made great memories playing at these coffee shops that had rock bands in the early 2000s
15:58! Lee! That's amazing! Friends of mine had a cover band here about 25 years ago that played all over the place called...Big Dictator and the Well Hungarians!
Absolutely love that rob lived in Trowbridge, I'm from that neck of the woods, totally bizarre.
I'm a bass player who plays AT everything else. My bass rig history isn't embarrassing. But my "playing guitar in public" gig history kind of would be. The first band I played guitar in was a friend's band. He'd broken his arm and needed someone to cover his rhythm parts while he sang. I figured I could do that for a couple months. That guitar was an Explorer copy, by Hondo. My dad was an Electrical Engineer. He and I had re-wrapped the pickups in a few of my guitars. The Explorer had the most successful set of those. I used my friend, Pete's amp, because mine was only good for bedroom volume. His amp was a Lab Series L5, a fire breathing monster of a solid state amp. It was probably the most effective solid state guitar amp I ever heard before digital stuff existed. Second public guitar rig was infinitely more serious, nearly a decade later: MIJ Fender Strat into a Bedrock BC50 amp.
The stripping in the music club joke had me laughing for like 5 min
This was gold. Listening to your stories and a little guitar playing is a great way to start the weekend.
That was genuinely entertaining bought back loads of memories including one of our school bands was called "Sticky Hamsters" always made me chuckle.
GOD DAMNIT. THATS OUT STANDING.
Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My first gigged rig
2010 Epiphone SG Special (sticker bombed with punk band stickers)
Peavey Windsor 100 watt tube head and matching cabinet
Used the boost switch for solos and also had an Ibanez tube screamer ts9dx to push the amp harder
Still have the guitar and it still sounds and plays great!
'87 Kramer Striker through an Epiphone So Cal......and I think about and miss them every day.
funnyly enough I kinda get the point of the Laney powered cab: it's not for gigging musicians - it's for the clubs and their backline! In a world where more and more people tour with modellers these things actually serve a purpose for small venues where the backline sound does matter a bunch. I work a club like that and just running the guitars through the PA sounds ass since our small club has a small PA.
You never made it in Trowbridge in the early 90s until you'd played Peewee's
I'm still playing some great gigs in Trowbridge! Come back this way and see us Chappers haha
Key takeaway from this video - BRING BACK THE VALVESTATE!!!
That was my first Mesa. The Studio caliber 22! Bought it when I was 16.
I just rewatched the original video last week, and was thinking it was due for a reshoot
My first gig rig was a brand new CIJ 1998 Jazzmaster, some sort of Peavey 40w nonsense combo amp, a DS1, and a Dunlop Wah. Horrific tone, but great memories. 😂
Peavey solid states had my whole attention until like 5 years into guitar playing
I have that Marshall 9004 rack preamp sitting in a rack across the room from me right now. Actually, I have a refrigerator-sized rack full of all those now-vintage preamps….ADA’s, Rocktrons, Marshalls, Haflers, Digitechs, Tube Works, ARTs, etc. Still love plugging into them!
Great video, loved to hear your stories, thanks guys
Yamaha used to have powered speaker cabinets and the heads were preamps. this was in the 70's. Thats how old I am. they were so ridiculously heavy..
Rob you are a great player and a bonafide Legend
Great video, really enjoyed the stories. My first proper rig was pretty cool - at Uni in Cardiff I managed to find a Marshall Jubilee 2555 and 1973 Marshall 4x12 in the back room of Broadway Music. Paid £450 for both! Thank you student loan!
Deluxe 85 was my first digital amp. Can't believe it. Love Rob and Lee reminiiscing.
It’s just a satisfying feeling watching these two jam. And maybe a little jealousy as well..
Always good to see chappers and the captain in a vid together
I used a JMP-1 for years, and then a Rocktron Voodu Valve, which I purchased from Soho Soundhouse in the early noughties, then back to a JMP-1 again. Both of those were awesome pieces of kit, but the Voodu had all the effects you'd need as well, which meant it could cover everything, and we all know how good Rocktron effects are.
A friend's band had won a battle of the bands at a local Frankston pub. Part of the prize was four Sunday afternoon gigs in the main bar. I noticed while they were setting up, the patronage was a dozen old fellas quietly sitting around with a beer. The guys got on stage, introduced themselves and tore through Born To Be Wild. When the song finished some old bloke yelled "Fair enough fellas, we're trying to watch the golf"
First amp. Marshall MG15, Marchall Class 5, Harmony H400 (that i rebuilt), Orange Tiny Terror, Seymour Duncan Convertible, EVH 5150 lunchbox head, OR15, Blackstar ST James.
Only time I've ever played live...borrowed my dads Yamaha acoustic guitar.
I wish I have my first rig. Fender 1966 Duo Sonic II with a Dan Armstrong Blue Clipper (box plugged into the guitar) and a Peavey (not sure the model but it had a 12" speaker and was solid state...and LOUD). I loved it and miss every bit of that rig.
I’m glad to hear that we all did the same things. Like smelling the gear at a shop. Hahaha. The smell of a new Marshall cabinet was just the best thing ever. I still go into shops and give them a sniff. Hahaha. Sadly the owner of the shop I used to go to recently passed away.
A metal zone, peavy bandit and a Strat copy with a humbucker in the bridge. 30 years ago
My first rig was a burshwood guitar and a gorilla amp. Still have both!
First rig: Squier black Strat and giant Fender amp - too big for an amp in a New York apartment (or flat, for the Andertons folks :). I think I had to keep the volume knob on .25 and that was even still too loud. I can't remember what happened to it.
First gig rig for me was either a Marshall MG100 half stack with a multi-effect pedal by Yamaha and a Mexican made Fender Strat. I didn't even know how to work the Yamaha pedal other than using the Chorus, Delay/Reverb and using the overdrive as a solo boost. Used the bare bones settings I could but the band got through it and it was a great little run with them. Seems like a lifetime ago.
My band played a gig at Wombwell Working Men's club near Barnsley in 1990 on the day of the England V Germany world cup semi final which was being shown in the other room! You can guess how many people were watching us!
Rob's story about the JEM reminds me of a story Brian Blessed told, about when he was a child he met the artist Picasso and asked him to draw him a picture. Picasso drew a picture of a bird, and Brian asked what it was, to which he replied, ''it's a dove.'' Young Brian wasn't impressed, and said, ''that's not a dove!'' Then gave him the picture back.
That picture, many years later, sold, I think it was for ten's of millions of pounds. It was a life changing amount of money anyhow. 😱
The Marshall preamp with tubes was the 9001, and the Valvestate one was the 9004, and that was the one that was only a few inches deep. The 9001 was deeper than that.
Martin Booth got a shout out!! He's the guitar DON in our town... Sudbury!
The real gem from this video are all the comments of people's fond memories of gear and gigs past!
i first started playing guitar in the very late 90s, and as a newbie i didnt understand rack setups at all. once i pieced it together, it looked expensive and had way too many moving parts, so i vowed to never deal with racks. now im an adult and i work in IT, my life is nothing but racks...
You guys are speaking my language! I’m another Half Moon alumni, btw… great venue, still going! Either of you play the Rock Garden in Covent Garden?