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I just stumbled on this site. Some good players and several brands of boutique amps like Carr, Germino, Fuchs, Dumble, Maven Peal, Matchless!

from : localhost/www.steelbender.com/videogallery.html

That looks like a good lunch break site. Not to steal from your post, but there is another good site here that demos many different amps.

no splawn? why bother..

lmao


Originally Posted by B BentThat looks like a good lunch break site. Not to steal from your post, but there is another good site here that demos many different amps.

Thanks for the link. When I'm actually WORKING at work, I start these downloads, so I've got stuff to listen to. We should consider ourselves lucky to live in the internet era. Just 15 years ago, we could have never seen so much cool stuff at the click of a button, for free!

Very cool. Ta!

AWsome! Great find. Thanks for sharing!

Holy moly Jason Barker is an awesome picker... double awesome. Very cool.

me like the GERMINO !!!!!!!!!!!!!! holy crap !!

Eddie Berman just smokes. As near as I can tell, the guy is a shop owner (or he may just work there) in North Carolina. Great jazz-infused, passing tone-laced tasty licks. As I told Jonesy earlier, it just goes to show you that there are a million guys who can play their asses off and you'll never hear of them.

He demo's a lot of the gear at this site:
from : localhost/www.indoorstorm.com/store.php

Yeah, some of the guys on those videos are amazing. That David Grissom clip alone contains a bunch of great woodshed material...


Originally Posted by Hot _GritsYeah, some of the guys on those videos are amazing. That David Grissom clip alone contains a bunch of great woodshed material...

David Grissolm is one of my favorite players. His feel and chops are second to none. I watched those clips and it reminded me that he's truly the most under rated player there is. He's been in John Mellencamp, Storyville, and plays with virtually everyone in Texas. Sometimes, I wonder if he's equal in skill to Eric Johnson. All I know is I've seen shoddy performances from Johnson, but I've never seen Grissolm sound anything less than spectacular.

From that clip, he sounds kind of like Eric but with quite a bit of Larry Carlton mixed in...

After listening to the clips, I want to find something with Grissolm's best playing on it, and also need to buy that Johnny Hiland debut CD. I need to borrow some of his licks too! It looks like they couldn't squeeze Johnny into the video lense, so they just decided to point it at the window instead! LOL

Great....now I need to go look at Fuchs.

Thanks....jerk.

GJ now has me jonesing for a Masonette 2x12 combo and Germino doesn't make the Masonette anymore (afaik). THANKS GJ!!!

It turns out that Gregg Germino does his thing roughly an hour and a half from me and I'm going to have to buy one of his amps or I'll off myself with a depression-driven twinky binge. Considering what he makes and what he puts into them, I think his prices are fair (just like Splawn's are fair). Both are expensive to me, but they are cheaper than all the other alternatives that would deliver more or less the same tone and they are new production with the backing of the best in the business. If I bought a used rig and had it modified to do the same thing, it would cost more and it wouldn't be as reliable. Great prices when you look at them this way. Considering what Gregg's amps sound like, I think they are almost underpriced. He just thinks that good gear shouldn't cost an arm and a leg I guess. Wants the gigging musician to have a rig that is road-worthy and doesn't cost as much as a real plexi.

Splawn is 2-1/2 hours from me. Carr amps is 5 hours away in Pittsboro I think and Germino Amplification is 1-1/2 hours away. Who knew I lived smack in the middle of the boutique amp capital of the eastern seaboard?

The reason I even found this site was because I was looking at this auction for a Germino LoVo55.

from : localhost/cgi.ebay.com/Germino-LoVo-55-...QQcmdZViewItem


Originally Posted by GearjoneserThe reason I even found this site was because I was looking at this auction for a Germino LoVo55.

from : localhost/cgi.ebay.com/Germino-LoVo-55-...QQcmdZViewItem

I checked out the same auction myself not 5 minutes after watching the Germino vids you linked us to. I'm stunned by the tone he's wringing out of those amps. If I wasn't broke, I'd have been all over that auction.

You're thinking about adding another amp to your stable of thoroughbreds? Does the Germino do something the Bogner and Matchless can't do? Please expound...


Originally Posted by Gr8ScottI checked out the same auction myself not 5 minutes after watching the Germino vids you linked us to. I'm stunned by the tone he's wringing out of those amps. If I wasn't broke, I'd have been all over that auction.

You're thinking about adding another amp to your stable of thoroughbreds? Does the Germino do something the Bogner and Matchless can't do? Please expound...

I'm always intrigued by good amps, and sometimes buy them just to play with them for a few months, then move them along, and buy something else.
My two mainstay amps are the Bogner Ecstasy and Matchless, just because there's nothing that can top them. The Bogner can get every sound most of them can, but then gets about 50 other shades of EL-34. I've got a couple amps for sale, like the Bassman LTD, and I'll put the money from that into another cool amp. It's fun to hear and play new ones, then move them along. I admit, it gets hard to let go of some stuff.

Scott's Celtic amp looks like it'd be a cool amp to have. I'd actually like to have a Fullsize plexi head like that with a Marshall circuit and 2 or 4 EL-84's.