Wire and wood
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Okay so here's the deal, I have a chance to buy one of these VV reissue amps with the Diaz mods and whatever. The amp is priced right at that point where it's too cheap to not buy it but still expensive enough to know it's a foolish buy for me. I haven't played out in years and currently I'm not even really garage jamming with anyone but it isn't as though I've taken some sort of religious vow to never do any of those things again.
I'm a big SRV fan and I do have plenty of Strats so obviously the "marketing" part of this amp is giving me GAS. Since I generally always play my LP, I am trying to be realistic about this amp and not give in to guitar hero marketing. As much as I love Stevie, I cannot play like him and I don't really try to anyway. I think I have even matured enough that the person I most want to sound like is me. Or at least me trying to sound like someone else. The LP players I most admire are the usual guys; Page, Betts, Rossington and so on.
Sadly the amp is not close enough for me to try out first and the guy selling it is someone I know but he is very much into the SRV thing so he can't really be objective about it.
Now after all of that, how about some pros and cons from some of you? Good Lester amp, bad? Good Led Zep amp? Good Skynyrd, ABB just general versatility stylisitcally? What if I never play outside the home again? What if I do?
I'm a big SRV fan and I do have plenty of Strats so obviously the "marketing" part of this amp is giving me GAS. Since I generally always play my LP, I am trying to be realistic about this amp and not give in to guitar hero marketing. As much as I love Stevie, I cannot play like him and I don't really try to anyway. I think I have even matured enough that the person I most want to sound like is me. Or at least me trying to sound like someone else. The LP players I most admire are the usual guys; Page, Betts, Rossington and so on.
Sadly the amp is not close enough for me to try out first and the guy selling it is someone I know but he is very much into the SRV thing so he can't really be objective about it.
Now after all of that, how about some pros and cons from some of you? Good Lester amp, bad? Good Led Zep amp? Good Skynyrd, ABB just general versatility stylisitcally? What if I never play outside the home again? What if I do?