Anyone that has played 5 old (late-60s 70s) Marshalls knows that 4 of them suck. 9 out of 10 with 50 watters.
What is the disconnect with modern tolerances and schematics and kits? I've heard wild shit like the insolation used on the old wires.
Come on.
The 100 watt VM Marshalls were...
If you want a 300 watt tube power amp...I dunno.
But for SS power, through 2 4x12s... I've been very thrilled with my old Crown XLS 750. It will blast your ass out of the room. Fast, deep and loud.
Like your mom.
If you are in the sticks, and want a band....be the band. Write songs and sing and be the man.
If you claim to be serious, do this. No one else in the sticks cares about your sweeps.
I feel this.
I'm 53 and have been so lucky to have been in bands since I was 16. If I wasn't making music with my best friends at this point, I think I would ditch it.
Guitar is a hateful mistress.
Nightswan and the late 80s Pacer were the only things Kramer ever did decent. Stagemaster, if you are homeless, your boyfriend had his dick cut off in a logging accident and your mother was fucking me... but the rest is shit.
I have a 'technique' for a songwriting rut.
I take the dumbest idea i have, and try to write the dumbest song I can around it. The goal, is to just write a song that is dumb.
Psychology.
When you free yourself of trying to be 'cool' or 'metal' ... now you can just write SOMETHING...
I had a USA Chaparral from the same era. Quilt top, OFR. Great guitar, heavy as balls. Chaps were set neck though. Mine had that Floyd-thing where it would stick 1/4 pitch up and you had to jerk the bar down to bring it back to pitch. So I sold it for peanuts in the 90s.
Californias were...
I remember them from the 80s.
In the really-real...they are forgettable. I think they had an R2 nut. That's a minus IMO.
I'd much rather have an Ibby 550 from the same era.