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I agree the blacks are cool. I have two blacks. The only one that I bought brand new was black. They don't call it basic black for nothing. I never started out to have a collection but its like snow. First its only a inch or so. Then its your up to your knees, then its your hips, then waste deep. Now who cares anymore lets make some snowballs
I have and even eleven guitars counting my three basses. Eleven is not really and even number I know but I don't have any torn in half guitars and all of their parts are on them so they are even.
Two of my boards have transpose buttons and they are handy to play with some one who plays your favorite songs but in the wrong key. My keys are always right so it got to be them that are in the wrong key.
Another thing I find that real handy for is when you go to a jam and its one of these affairs where the other guitar players fingers are too tender to press on the strings that are so tight as when they are in standard tune and or the singer can't quite sing. So every one is tuned a half step.
I have a Twin too but its the regular Twin's evil half brother. Its the Evil Twin. It has all black face cosmetics and except for the spic and span clean the simularities end there. Its full of bells and whistles most are well hidden so that it appears for all the world to look like its more wholesome and upstanding brother. But it has three seperate channels. I'm sure that you can imagine that the other two are designed to do good clean living things as the first channel does. It sort of has a split personality.
Thats cool that you have a Kustom Pa of sorts. From the way you have described and my own long history with Kustom's I am sure that it is a very powerful combination that works well. The fifteens will handle the lows. The horns the highs and those columns will bring out the mids the way that most modern systems cannot begin to.
I too am missing a few 200 models. I have no red amp, no blue amp, and no gold amp. Although I never really expect to get a gold one. A couple of speaker combinations I am missing is a 3x12 one. It would be nice to get one in red but any color will do. I'd like to have a 100 in 2x12 and again any color will do. Its always the last ones that are so hard to find.
You are probably right on the 2x10 Kustom. I will bet it will be a very good guitar amp. I have always like the sound of tens. I find that my Kustom's sound really good for guitar if I use my Ric or my Gretsch. Strats are not quite as sweet as those two thru my Kustom's.
In Fender I need two more to make my choir complete. One is a Vibro King and the other is the 59 Bassman. I only have two Vox amps. But you have one that I am lusting afterwards and thats the AC30CC. I want one in a head and cab. The combo is of course very near the same thing but its a lot harder to change the tubes in them.
The trolly's on those Vox amps are a work of art but they take up a lot of room so I don't think I will get one or at least not get one until I have more room for this rowdy crowd. I also kinda like the Vox new verision of the Super Beatle the AD120VTX.
Then there is the problem of a Vox bass amp. None of the older ones are as well designed as our Kustom's. So that is gonna take some time and thought. I have a modern head that I hide behind the scene for bass with my Fender's and Kustom's. But the Fender or Kustom cabs are used for bass and the heads are setting on top of their cabs with cords plugged in and the lights are all glowing. Wonderful David Copperfield.
I would like to have a good hammond clone board too. The Roland VK8 is pretty good one. But the Nord weighs less that twenty pounds. Its red too. Since red is my wife's favorite color after rolled and pleated I can ususally get anything I want if I can find some thing red on it.
I just don't have enought experience to say on synth. So on price and features alone that I have read about the Trinton LE looks good on paper in the 76 key form. I wanna be able to do synth sounds and horn parts too.
I am with you my keyboard playing is limited to chords with the left hand and leads with my right. I have played with some folks though including the B-3 player that I got my Leslie from that had their left is either cut off or neulogically damaged so they cannot be used.
But when you hear a good hammond player who can really play those things it is truely a thing of beauty. I'm just a lump of coal in that crowd.
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