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  1. Matt mentioned that earlier to me, indeed it was played at in original tuning (half step higher). Well spotted
  2. And the intro tease of "Fez" and "Zooropa" was crafty of them... now to actually PLAY "Fez / Being Born" and "Zooropa".... that would be truly awesome to see/hear.
  3. What guitar is he using here?

  5. Originally posted by AAV711:[..]

    Some sort of Gretsch solid body...dunno the specific name...I believe he used in NLOTH recording? For Boots perhaps?




    That there is a G6127T Gretsch Duo Jet. Lovely looking guitar. They sound amazing. Sort of like a nice marriage between a Les Paul and Country Gent (Filter Tron) tone.

    It's either at G6128T - Bigsby and Filtertron pickups or a G6128TVP - aka the "Power Jet" Pickups are upgraded to TV Jones Power'Trons.

    I remember Guitar World doing a video product review of the Power Jet... Lovely sounding guitar. I would love to have one.

  6. Who thought that I Will Follow was played (Popmart aside) exclusively on the famous Gibson Explorer '76?




    AWESOME version of Streets (I love the change of the "trampleeeed in duuuussst" line) and surprising version of I Will Follow, played on a... on... a... Stratocaster
  7. Really hoping for some help here....

    I have an old secondhand Fender 90W amp with one 12inch speaker, and whenever I play it loudly, which is sort of essential for gigging (even though it IS pumped through a speaker- the power going through the amp tends to do this-), it suddenly cuts the sound to something of the volume of a whisper and "motorboats". At least thats the term I've read it described as on some help websites I've searched...Basically the amp just sputters a dead sound, similar to that of a motorboat puttering across the water. It's always fairly perfectly even- almost like an unwanted tremolo effect pumping dead sputters through my amp. Sometimes I can pat the top of the amp a little bit (sometimes harder than others, admittedly), and it will kick back in, loud and clear. But rocking out, I'll be in the middle of a chord progression etc. and the damn thing will just cut right out.

    It's a combo amp, and I'm pretty sure the only thing I can see from the back is the speaker (I'm virtually stupid in the realm of amps)...are there still tubes inside the upper casing of the amp somewhere that might need replaced? Is there something inside that needs resoldered? Is there a much bigger problem, am I better off replacing the amp? How would I even begin to diagnose the problem?!

    Haha as you can see I have virtually no clue what I'm doing here...I may play a mean U2 cover, but if my amp is broken I'm a bit of a know-nothing in terms of how to fix the situation without just replacing the amp itself. Can anyone help me/at least tell me what might be wrong?!

    Thanks!
  8. If it's anything like a crackling/windy storm/skipping sound than it's something to do ith the tubes or the rectifier. That's my guess anyway. I'm no amp tech, but that's the sound that was coming out of my AC30 a while back, and it needed its tubes replaced.
  10. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:If it's anything like a crackling/windy storm/skipping sound than it's something to do ith the tubes or the rectifier. That's my guess anyway. I'm no amp tech, but that's the sound that was coming out of my AC30 a while back, and it needed its tubes replaced.


    Is that something I can do myself?
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