Posted on 11/04/2018 11:52:45 AM PST by To-Whose-Benefit?
I interviewed Don Randall in 1992, when I was researching my first book about Fender. In the beginning, Don had worked for Fender's distributor, Radio-Tel, but in the early '50s he joined Fender as the head of sales, staying there until a few years after CBS' takeover in 1965.
I met Don at his office in Tustin, California, and spent a couple of enjoyable hours chatting about the old days, necessarily concentrating on his view from the business side of Fender—and, in particular, discussing the controversial CBS purchase.
Sitting in his wood-paneled office, he looked to me a little like an aging astronaut—sleek, tanned, and self-assured. He certainly helped take Fender into the stratosphere.
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Nice gear. I’d love to have a late ‘50s LP Jr. Unfortunately the cost has skyrocketed. Wasn’t that long ago when one could grab ‘em for under $1K.
Maybe it was built for the nation of Colombia’s broadcasting operation. Colombia Broadcasting was well-known in short wave.
No.
But, maybe the guy who made the tag thought it. lol.
Different world then. Quality stuff that got individual attention, even if the spelling was wrong.
Oh, man. Excellent reading. Thanks To-Whose-Benefit?!
yeah Beck was great. Didn’t he use a Les Paul?
“Dark Star never gets old’’. No it doesn’t. It seems in ‘69 they had really perfected it. I don’t know if you’re aware of a site called “Relisten Dead’’. There’s every Dead concert from 1965 to 2015. Loads of ‘69 Dark Stars. And especially good one is from Boston on 4/21/69.
Great story about Roy. What a madman he was (in the positive sense). He’d have no doubt appreciated your custom Tele.
Thanks for the site tip. Nope, never knew about it. I’ll try to find some Dead shows I’ve seen. One in particular stands out — Feb. of ‘82 at Golden Hall, San Diego. First night. And at Pauley Pavilion a couple days later.
Right now i'm working on an analog universal filter/preamp setup. When i get it done, i'll be able to shape the sound spectrum of the guitar any way i want it with the filter, and have a nice preamp for the guitar when i don't want the filtering. The filter will have all available shapes (low pass, high pass, band pass, notch), and independently adjustable bandwidth, center frequency and gain.
Maybe i'll market it in the future. i can add a feature where all the parameters are controlled by a foot pedal.
They’re there .2/19 and 2/20. Google relisten dead and it’ll go to the site. At the top of the site you should see The Grateful Dead/Relisten. Click on that one.
RE: ‘78 Twin, Breakup.
If you’re having this work done by someone else anyway, pass him along this list.
Cut that Negative Feedback Wire off the speaker jack inside it.
It takes the signal and re injects it out of phase to tighten and brighten the signal at the phase inverter.
That nonsense belongs in stereo gear and PA/Mixing etc, not in a guitar amp.
Next, IF you 1st discharge the Electrolytic B+ supply filters under the can beside the Output transformer, re regulate the plate voltages on the preamp tubes starting with the Phase inverter backwards to input tube 1 by substituting the dropping resistors between them.
Ph Inv. should be apx 245 VDC with your input tubes at appx 190 VDC.
THEN, lose the JBLs. Emminence, Celestion, whole Bunch of better choices for guitar.
If you still want more breakup, rewire you speakers at 16 ohms instead of 4 (stock) and pull the 2 Outside pwr tubes out of it. (6L6 #1 and 6L6 #4). That’ll cut the pwr in HALF. It’ll break up just fine then.
With those mods alone you shouldn’t need anything more than the vol and tone controls on your guitar.
Or you Could have your tech put in a half pwr switch that cuts off the screen supply to those 2 output tubes.
If you go with the switch,leave the speaker impedance wiring as is.
Fender OP transformers are very tolerant of up to 100% mismatches either way.
“Nice gear. I’d love to have a late ‘50s LP Jr. Unfortunately the cost has skyrocketed. Wasn’t that long ago when one could grab ‘em for under $1K.”
You might consider a used 2018 SG Jr. Those can be had for not much over a grand.
I just bought one without a mark on it for $900.
And I’m lovin’ it.
Thanks. Just checked out the ‘18 Junior online. Looks just like the early ‘60s vintage.
Congrats on the new axe. Love the shape of that old style pickguard. And you can get so many sounds from just that one P-90 just by adjusting volume/tone and right hand position. Hopefully the (somewhat) local Guitar Center will have one to try out. My second electric guitar was a ‘75 SG Standard in Alpine white.
Huge variability in SQ from show to show, I see. That date at Golden Hall was almost unlistenable. But some others are pretty good.
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