Absolutely one of a kind dude. Very humble, friendly, soft spoken, and a master of his craft. This would be a huge deal to the guitar/bass playing community in this area. The guy who said it was selling some high end gear from a dead relative, and mentioned it casually in the conversation...
I was at guitar center today, and over heard someone tell a long time employee that legendary Ferndale, Mi based guitar tech Mike Koontz passed away last week.
I couldn't find anything online about it. If this is true, its a huge loss, as he was known as being hands down the best tech in the...
when i was young it was just seeing 80's rock guy and thrash guys on mtv.
Then in the late 90's, i discovered euro metal and stuff like this blew my mind.
that video reminds me of my mid 20's. being day drunk on someones property out in the sticks watching back woods local metal bands playing off a generator on a flat bed truck stage, while their wives and girlfriends tend to the kids and pretend that its a normal family outing... only with...
back in the 2000's when i flipped gear i almost always at least broke even. like breaking even felt like a loss. Now breaking even is the goal because flipping is pretty much impossible now.
Hes very much still there according to the person at boogie i'm dealing with. i didn't even ask for him, but according to everything in the emails it was him who checked it out and left the tech notes. i just figured if something was up and the board needed to be pulled ANYONE at boogie is...
Welp, i just paid a lot of money for some piece of mind i guess.
I sent my boogie mark IV to mesa because i had some tubes red plate and blow a fuse a few times. they were all just old mesa tubes that were sitting around here.
I'd been meaning to retube it, but i didn't want it to burn a...
somewhere in a box in my basement there is a hi8 video tape of me at 15 or 16 playing Slayer's Show No Mercy start to finish on my sunburst washburn lyon strat copy. i'm not in any big hurry to see me a that age again. i had glow up.