Jose modded amps...Anybody encountered one?

[Anonymous]

I was a fan to!! Just did not dig the tone. Listen to his solos carefully.. The amp definitely chokes out when he is trying to play faster riffs. Its like he hits a note and then the note decays with absolutely no hangtime!!

I just kinda figured that guy didn't use a shitload of distortion and that's what I was hearing? I'll have to throw it in the CD player and listen again.

I hear that the singer, Marq Torrien was a really good guitar player( loads better than sweda) but for some reason, they thought that hed make an awesome front man...

I think Mark Cameron told me that but Im not sure...

Kage

I'm pretty sure that I told you that. I met Marq the first time at the Charvel shop in '82. Grover Jackson was taking myself and a friend on a factory tour and he asked me if I wanted to meet "Ozzy's new guitar player". He introduced us to Marq and he showed off a couple of Charvel strat heads that Grover and he indicated Ozzy was paying for. One was a red/white bullseye. He was cranking the guitars through a Plexi Marshall that was ungodly loud and he was a freakin' badass player. Lotsa really intricate tapping, just off the charts. Kinda took Eddie a bit futher than I'd heard him get at the time... Anyway, then Marq goes, "Hey you wanna hear a new Ozzy tune we're working on? This one is called 'Bark At The Moon'" and then he proceeded to play basically an identical intro-verse-chorus to what Jake did on the album. At the time Torien looked like a hispanic EVH. He had an identical dark brown EVH haircut (I bring this up 'cause he ended up trying to look like Roth in BB ). Anyway, my buddy bought a nice Charvel bass and I got nothing 'cause I had no money. Got to play some killer Charvels though and Grover was a great host. He even showed us two unfinished Rhoads guitars that were supposed to go to Randy before he died. They had been painted, but nothing else... Was a pretty cool afternoon...

Anyway... Torien never ended up getting the Ozzy gig and the next time I saw him was 6 months or so later playing with Ratt in the Warren position. I had heard there was a drug problem, but with Ozzy at the time that seems almost impossible. He was playing that same red/white bullseye Charvel strat head that he was getting that day at the factory... Then he was out of Ratt and Warren was in and I didn't hear anything about him again until I saw the "Roth" version of Torien with Bullet Boys. It was hard to believe he was the same guy...

Many have disputed me on the first part and what I heard and saw at the Charvel factory that day, but I have no reason to not tell the truth and I saw what I saw and heard what I heard...

Steve

 

[Digital Jams]

Holy crap Steve!!!!!!!!

You should have told Grover to stop putting those Kahlers on his guitars

 

[Anonymous]

Holy crap Steve!!!!!!!!

You should have told Grover to stop putting those Kahlers on his guitars

I actually liked Kahlers personally and he wouldn't have listened to me anyway. He needed a locking setup and Kramer had Floyd locked up at the time...

Steve

 

[Telephant]

That was a cool story Steve!

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys! It was just the luck of the draw. If we'd have shown up a day earlier or later, it would have just been a normal factory tour (which still would have been cool...).

Steve

 

[Gainzilla]

I hear that the singer, Marq Torrien was a really good guitar player( loads better than sweda) but for some reason, they thought that hed make an awesome front man...

I think Mark Cameron told me that but Im not sure...

Kage

I'm pretty sure that I told you that. I met Marq the first time at the Charvel shop in '82. Grover Jackson was taking myself and a friend on a factory tour and he asked me if I wanted to meet "Ozzy's new guitar player". He introduced us to Marq and he showed off a couple of Charvel strat heads that Grover and he indicated Ozzy was paying for. One was a red/white bullseye. He was cranking the guitars through a Plexi Marshall that was ungodly loud and he was a freakin' badass player. Lotsa really intricate tapping, just off the charts. Kinda took Eddie a bit futher than I'd heard him get at the time... Anyway, then Marq goes, "Hey you wanna hear a new Ozzy tune we're working on? This one is called 'Bark At The Moon'" and then he proceeded to play basically an identical intro-verse-chorus to what Jake did on the album. At the time Torien looked like a hispanic EVH. He had an identical dark brown EVH haircut (I bring this up 'cause he ended up trying to look like Roth in BB ). Anyway, my buddy bought a nice Charvel bass and I got nothing 'cause I had no money. Got to play some killer Charvels though and Grover was a great host. He even showed us two unfinished Rhoads guitars that were supposed to go to Randy before he died. They had been painted, but nothing else... Was a pretty cool afternoon...

Anyway... Torien never ended up getting the Ozzy gig and the next time I saw him was 6 months or so later playing with Ratt in the Warren position. I had heard there was a drug problem, but with Ozzy at the time that seems almost impossible. He was playing that same red/white bullseye Charvel strat head that he was getting that day at the factory... Then he was out of Ratt and Warren was in and I didn't hear anything about him again until I saw the "Roth" version of Torien with Bullet Boys. It was hard to believe he was the same guy...

Many have disputed me on the first part and what I heard and saw at the Charvel factory that day, but I have no reason to not tell the truth and I saw what I saw and heard what I heard...

Steve

It very well could have been you Bro but the more I think about it, I remember Mark talking about Torien, hes another guy with ASSLOADS of stories from the Glory days..

As far as disputing what youve said, I believe you and cant think of any reason that youwould fabricate something like that...

 

[Jdub]

Many of the them are now In Japan.

 

[Anonymous]

It very well could have been you Bro but the more I think about it, I remember Mark talking about Torien, hes another guy with ASSLOADS of stories from the Glory days..

As far as disputing what youve said, I believe you and cant think of any reason that youwould fabricate something like that...

Yeah, I see what you are saying. I have posted this story several times before when people have mentioned Torien...

The disputes usually come from Jake fanatics who refuse to believe that it is possible that someone else wrote parts of "Bark At The Moon". I really don't know who wrote those parts, I can only say that in the summer of '82, Torien was playing it and calling it by name.

Steve