Re: 30th anniversary of Bon Scott death

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:03:40 -0500, Meat Plow wrote:

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:17:57 -0500, Wrong_Note_Rod
<wrongnoterod@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:53:55 -0500, Meat Plow wrote:

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:48:09 -0800 (PST), Lewis
<lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Feb 19, 3:49?pm, Meat Plow wrote:
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:42:08 -0800 (PST), Lewis
<le...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Feb 19, 12:09?pm, Meat Plow wrote:
2/19/1980

RIP

SNIFF

Used to be a band from Akron, OH called The Rubber City Rebels. The
week after Bon died we did a show with them at The Starwood in West
LA... these guys debuted their tribute to him, called of course, "Bon
Voyage". Very cool indeed. Wish I had a recording of it.

Yeah back then I was really caught up in the power guitar thing. Had
an eardrum splitting Ampeg VT-22 and a 60's SG. Guess what band
from down under I idolized?

I was using a V-4 stack at the time... but a year later we all went to
combos. I "downsized" to a VT-22. Maybe the best sounding amp I've
ever owned. As usual, I wish I still had it.


Yeah I wish I had that thing. It weighed a ton with Altec-Lansing 12s
in it.

The V4 is the same amp, worked one over a month or so ago. But the
customer wanted to use it for a bass head. Not enough reserve for a
clean punch sound the amp was designed more for crunch.


I had a V4-B that I played bass thru in a band in the 80s. With a PV 2-15
cab. That was LOUD.

I didn't say it wasn't loud, just not what the owner expected. I
plugged him into a 300 watt SS SVT reissue on a 4x10 cab and
showed the difference in clean punch opposed to the V4's crunchy
punch. Some like the latter and play bass through Marshalls like Lemmy
for one. WHen I played I used a BBE 383 preamp into a Crown Microtech
1000 out either a 4x10, 4x10 + 1x18 or a 4x12 + 4x10. Never even
warmed the amp up most of the time.


well, i thought the V4-B sounded good with my P-bass, at the time. Did a
lot of gigs with it. Long time ago. I might try it now and think, god this
is horrible.


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