Tag: Marshall

Eric’s Birthday

Eric Clapton celebrated his 76th birthday today and I’m guessing he didn’t wear a mask.

I can overlook a lot of shit from my musical heroes, I’m looking at you drunken racist immigration rants back in the… whenever that was, but the anti mask shit you pulled recently… just fuck you, bro.

I still want to hear him play live again. Just one more time. That’s despite the anti mask shit. I mean really… fuck you, bro.

So instead of birthday wishes here’s a pic from 1966 with the legendary Marshall combo amp behind him, and the even more legendary, dare I say almost mythical, 1960 Les Paul Standard in front of him.

Assuming the Instagram link works, of course…

(The guy next to him is John McVie who about two years later became the Mac in Fleetwood Mac)

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I seriously want a new Fender amplifier.  I’d need to get one with a wattage comparable to my Marshall.  A Deluxe Reverb would be cool but the output is way lower than what I have.  The Twin Reverb would be perfect.  It’s a 2×12 combo and a higher output.  Even better, it’s all tube!

I just don’t wanna shell out $1500.

   
   

Potential Banner Pics

I’m in full on nerd mode right now.

I wanted to change the photo in my banner. I figured something guitar related would be appropriate. I had a couple of pics that might be good source material…

This one has received over a thousand hits on Flickr.

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This one seems to have a little too much going on, but after cropping it down it might be okay.

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I don’t want to use camera phone pics, but this Hipstamatic of my 12-string is a minor favorite.

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In the end I decided to take a couple of new pictures of my Les Paul and try those.

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I ended up going with an attempt at redoing the banner on my Google+ profile, which is a camera phone pic taken on the day Jim Marshall died.

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And there you have it… A nerd and his camera and his guitars.