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Spud
Didn't know that Keith owned quite so many of those early high power twins.
I sometimes think that Pierre is the real collector of all those guitars and amps.
Keith may be the museum's patron...but Pierre is the director and curator.
I'd love him to do a book for all we gear nerds about Keith's guitars and amps...with stuff like how he likes his Gibson ES series wired ? and what tubes are preferred in the old twins ?
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Spud
Yep, Keith know what he likes... and Pierre knows how to get it .
He's like Keith's musical bagman.
Come on Pierre , lets have a book !
something like the Stones Gear book...but with much more first hand insight and depth.
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Spud
Didn't know that Keith owned quite so many of those early high power twins.
I sometimes think that Pierre is the real collector of all those guitars and amps.
Keith may be the museum's patron...but Pierre is the director and curator.
I'd love him to do a book for all we gear nerds about Keith's guitars and amps...with stuff like how he likes his Gibson ES series wired ? and what tubes are preferred in the old twins ?
A book about his guitars would be fascinating; yet I do wonder: how 'technical' is Keith? He doesn't strike me as someone who obsesses over amp-settings or wiring. His guitar tech may very observe the most minutest detail; yet I simply can't imagine Keith doing so. I'm sure Keith may dictate the 'sounds' he prefers; but what else?
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Spud
Didn't know that Keith owned quite so many of those early high power twins.
I sometimes think that Pierre is the real collector of all those guitars and amps.
Keith may be the museum's patron...but Pierre is the director and curator.
I'd love him to do a book for all we gear nerds about Keith's guitars and amps...with stuff like how he likes his Gibson ES series wired ? and what tubes are preferred in the old twins ?
A book about his guitars would be fascinating; yet I do wonder: how 'technical' is Keith? He doesn't strike me as someone who obsesses over amp-settings or wiring. His guitar tech may very observe the most minutest detail; yet I simply can't imagine Keith doing so. I'm sure Keith may dictate the 'sounds' he prefers; but what else?
Years ago Keith told me, via a guitar magazine interview that I read and probably have somewhere, the best amp advice I'd ever found about the Fender Champ (silver, not tweed) and that is - everything on ten. That's a total of three knobs.
It's also Mick's preferred amp to play harmonica through.
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The late Chuch Magee (Rolling Stones backline head from 1975 to 2002) once told me Keith's main Fender Twin amp is serial number 0002. He bought it sometime in the 70's for $750. The backup Twin is serial number 0003. Both amps were likely made by the same hands at the Fender factory in 1952, using the exact same materials. The #0002 amp was bought sometime later from a collector for "a lot" of money. I've heard that at this point Keith owns all of the amps from #0002 to #0010. They didn't know the whereabouts of amp #0001 but it may have been a factory prototype and was not sold. Chuch said other than a few new capacitors and pots (and replacement tubes) these amps are stock (including the original Jensen 12-inch speakers) although some of the other early Twins had replacemt custom-made Celestion speakers.
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Spud
Neither do we know for example how Keith Likes his Gibsons wired ...50s style, typically brighter and more open sounding ? or "modern" style, thicker and kind of more solid sounding ?
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Spud
Neither do we know for example how Keith Likes his Gibsons wired ...50s style, typically brighter and more open sounding ? or "modern" style, thicker and kind of more solid sounding ?
Keith's ES-355's all have original, thus 1950's, wiring.
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Spud
Years ago Keith told me, via a guitar magazine interview that I read and probably have somewhere, the best amp advice I'd ever found about the Fender Champ (silver, not tweed) and that is - everything on ten. That's a total of three knobs.
It's also Mick's preferred amp to play harmonica through.
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Koen
Who is Otis Gibbs?