Conference napalm::guitar

    I bet a Roland JC120 is in that list someplace...
    Probably GK too!
    
    jc

    Joe Pass is a Polytone endorsee.  
    
    Metheny *used* to use Acoustics (!!!) in the early PMG days with lotsa
    rack gear (mostly Lexicon) to drive it.
    
    A lot of these guys rent amps on the road (well, not Metheny, of course).
    
    							Brian

    
    Larry Carlton (my personal guitar hero) uses/endorses CARVIN amps.
    
    
    /Billy_K 
    (CARVIN fan/user.. still waiting for the endorsement offer ;^)

    > Larry Carlton (my personal guitar hero) uses/endorses CARVIN amps.
    
    He may "use" them somewhere, but not on stage.
    
    Last 3 or 4 times I've seen him, he was definitely using his Larry
    Carlton model Valley Arts guitar thru a Dumble amp.
    
    	db

    RE: -1
    
    Dave,
    
    LC is always advertised in the Carvin brochures as using their amps.
    He must "use" them at home or sumthin ;^)
    
    I sure wish they would pay me big $$$ to say I "used" an amp.
    Hell, I'd even say I "used" a Peavey Bass amp if the money
    was right. I just wouldn't say what I "used" it for!! (certainly NOT 
    for playing my bass... boat anchor comes to mind).
    
    /Billy_K

   re: .-1

   Bill, wasn't that a Peavey amp I saw in your garage the other day?  :-)
   Come to think of it though, you didn't play through it.

   All for the want of a fresh battery, too.  :-)

   -- Sam

    > LC is always advertised in the Carvin brochures as using their amps.
    
    I know, I get that catalog.
    
    I don't want to deflate your idealistic views about truth in
    advertising but these days Valley Arts guitars and Dumble amps are
    as closely associated to LC as Gibson 335's and Boogies used to be
    in the 70's.
    
    It's all he mentions in print interviews, and it's all you see
    on-stage.
    
    	db

    Sam,
    
    The little one is Peavey Minx. It's only redeeming qualities 
    are a headphone jack and an incredibly cheap price-tag.
    The other one was a GK800RB. There is a bit of a difference.
    And yes, it does help to have a good battery in the tuner.
    I also had the bad judgement to own a Peavey MArk III once upon 
    a time as well as two Peavey P38 mics (junk!!) and a Peavey 
    fretless bass. Luckily, I've come to my senses.
    
    In all fairness to Peavey, their MEGA Bass amp is a nice unit,
    although a bit pricy. They also make some damn fine guitar combo
    amps for a decnet price.
    
    /Billy_K
    

    re: .0
    
    	Ed Bickert uses a Roland Cube 60 (well, at least the last two times
    I saw him he did).
    
    	I just knew I should have spent the extra money and gotten a Cube 60
    instead of a Cube 40. Live & learn.                               
    
    						Cal C.
    

    
    This is a subject which has been bugging me for a while now !
    
    Can anyone shed some light on the question of which amps are best for
    jazz guitar playing ?
    
    I am also interested in the types of amp used by players such as 
    Tal Farlow, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell etc. , assuming of course
    that this hasn't already been covered elsewhere in a Notes file !
    
    Any ideas.........?
    
    D.H.
    

    I remember someone (Danny W.?) saying Polytone for its convenient size,
    Fender Twin for its sound.
    
    Check out notes 2757 and 1535.  Or do a dir/title=amp maybe.
    
    Dave

    
    Thanks Dave ! Do you happen to know how present day Fender Twins are
    rated ? Or are you referring specifically to the original amps.......?
    
    
    Davy H.

    1016.57 and replies to it have some more opinions. Since they were
    written, there are more choices available. Some players use
    Mese/Boogie, for example, and several of the reissue style amps have
    become popular. I still think you can't beat a Twin if you can someone
    to carry it for you.
    
    Danny W.

    
    I don't know if any pros use these, but I recently played
    a small Trace Acoustic amplifier with two 5 inch 
    speakers and a built in digital reverb that I liked alot. 
    It was nice and small, but expensive (like $1400), 
    especially considering there are used Roland JC120s in the 
    want advertiser all the time for around $350-450.
    
    For my own home noodling I'm happy with the clean sound of my
    Princeton Chorus (solid state, two 10s), which also turns up 
    used for $300-$400, and is much more compact than a JC120.  The 
    built in distortion sounds terrible to me, but
    then I've never heard a good solid state distortion, and I didn't
    want it for that anyways.   
    
    Dave
    

    
    Re .3 :
    
    Thanks Danny, point taken about wheeling a Twin about from place to
    place ! There's some v. interesting information in your original notes
    files which you were referring to.
    
    and Re .4 :
    
    Yes I am looking for amps with a good clean ( /musical ) sound, not 
    interested in distortion either in this case.
    
    
    I think amp prices may be different as I am in Scotland (AYO) and Fender
    as well as Roland amps (+ most others) do sound to be much cheaper in the 
    U.S.
    
    Thanks again,  D.H.
       

    
    Gear alert: Anyone else check out John Abercrombie at the
    Regatabar last night?  Very nice guitar sounds.  I took 
    a brief look at his stuff and it looked like:  
    
    2 Blackface Fender Twins, each mounted facing up at an 
    angle in some kind of box 
    
    A small rack between them, having one piece of dbx? equipment, 
    another unit I couldn't identify.   
    
    He spent some time playing a Gibson Chet Atkins guitar, but
    mostly through some tele like guitar, which I could only
    see the back of because of my seats.  
    
    It's a good group, with Jack DeJohnnette on drums and Dave Holland
    on bass.  There's supposedly a live record due out sometime in the
    future. 
    
    Dave   
    
    

    Upon closer inspection, Abercrombie looks to have
    been actually using:
    
    1) Two Fender twins _just as speakers cabs_, since
       the power lights weren't on. 
    
    2) A Walter Woods amp
    
    3) An Aquilar tube preamp
    
    4) A Boss effects processor
    
    His main guitar was a Sandowski. 
    
    Dave
                               

    A recent picture of Pat Martino in this Sunday's 
    NYT showed him playing a solid body guitar
    of some kind through a Roland JC120. 
    
    The accompanying article disclosed that he
    recently lost his record deal because he wants
    to record more of his compositions, which don't 
    feature a guitar that sounds like a guitar. 
    
    Dave
    

    The stuff Pat's been writing and recording up in his room for decades
    is the stuff of legend; intense, knotty, music from another dimension.
    But hey, we wouldn't actually want to try and get some of that out for
    the public to hear now would we!?
    
    Pat's a *JAZZ* guitarist, and by golly he'd better continue to sound
    like one.
    
    :-(