Ampli in parallelo

Ciao,

vi riporto un breve passo dell'intervista fatta a Cesar Diaz da Tonequest report nel 2000

TQR:

Was Stevie running his 2 Vibroverbs jumped?

Yeah…I looked at that and just laughed. You should always

use a “Y” cable or a splitter box because you get too much

frequency cancellation jumping amps and channels otherwise.

I didn’t charge Stevie anything at the time, but that’s how you

get somewhere in this business – you spot a player and nurture

him, help him…Oh, and I would like to clarify something

about Stevie’s left-handed whammy bar. That came

from me, and it was a 50’s block that almost looks like an

octagon – it has a different kind of artful milling pattern to it,

and I had that assembly lying around for the longest time. I

told Stevie, “If you watched Jimi, his guitar was upside

down, so the whammy bar is up here and you can hit it with

your elbow. I gave it to him and I never thought he was going

to put it on Number One, but the next time he comes around,

he’s got it on his guitar. But he did it himself, and I think he

must have used a knife or a chisel or something. That’s why

there was a sticker that said “Custom” below the bridge – to

cover the hack job that he did. I said, “Jesus Christ, Stevie,

what the fuck did you do?” I saw that guitar when it was

pretty clean, with most of its finish in the beginning, but after

a couple of years with Stevie, it was just like,

done. It was a

Ciao!!

David

www.myspace.com/davidguitarfreak

’62 neck with a “question mark” body – I never saw a date

on it. One time a pickup blew up and we changed it for

another blackbottom. Blackbottoms were used up until ’64,

when they started appearing with a yellow date on them. The

magnetic field changed in ‘58 -’59, and if you take a later

pickup and change the polarity, they’ll sound like the earlier

pickups. The polarity changed from the Broadcasters to the

Telecasters too.