Guitarist, bassist, recording & live sound engineer, former studio owner & occasional producer.
Pro musician since 1975.
Obsession with music (of course!), interest in reading/writing, food & cooking, history, technology/tinkering, physics and metaphysics
- Location
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NY
- Occupation
- yes
- My Gear
- Les Pauls, a Moderne, a Johnny A Custom, Strats/Floydcasters, Firebirds, Teles, Explorers, PRSs vintage and modern, two Backlunds, DT McNaught VDC & VSC, James Tyler Studio Custom, Zerberus Chimaira, BC Rich Mockingbird, SG Custom, Parker Fly VR, MusicMan Albert Lee, MusicMan Armada, MIJ LesPauls from Greco, Burny, Orville & OrvilleByGibson, Vox SSC55, Epi Wildkat, Tokai SilverStar, Washburn BT-2 Maverick, Eko 300, Eko Kadet, Hagstroms vintage and modern. Handful of partscasters. And an Orpheo korina Explorer style prototype.
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Acoustics: '49 Gibson, '63 Framus, '68 Supro, '74 Guild, '75 Ovation, '88 Martin.
Basses: coupla Fenders, a customshop Thunderbird, '69 Hagstrom, '72 Ibanez Jazz, '89 Ibanez Roadstar.
Also an early 80s dulcimer handmade by my granddad, Carl Berst.
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Amps: Triaxis/20:20 w/Marshall 2x12, '79 Boogie Mk II w/ Marshall 4x12, 80s Son Of Boogie/EVM12L combo, '64 Bassman,'65 Bandmaster, '64 & '66 Silvertone 1482s, '55 Magnatone Lyric. And a Friedman Pink Taco.
- Duncan Pups I Have Experience With...
- Have used & loved a Quarter Pound Strat for 35 years. Have a bunch of 59s with various mags, Antiquity set, coupla BroBuckers, 59/Custom Hybrid with UA5, PATB-1N/PA-STK/PATB-3, Custom, Custom5, Custom 8, coupla Demons, JBs (one vintageMJ, one A2), A8 Distortion set, Perpetual Burn with UA5, QP Tele set, Lil59 for Tele, Hot Rails for Strat, Fuglybucker set, Slash set, and an Antiquity Surfer custom bridge.
Others I have and like: PRS 57/08s and T&Bs, Tom Holmes PAFs, ReWind (3 CremeBrulees & a bespoke set), VintageVibe PAFs & SP90s, Wolfetone Marshallhead & Dr Vintage set, Sheptone Tributes, Wizz PAFs & GregBilly , TVJones PowerTrons, Bareknuckle RebelYells & HolyDivers, RioGrande TX/BBQ, Babybucker & HalfBreed. Zhangbuckers (4 pure handwounds & PaulBunyans fr Tele & Strat, Railhammer HyperVintages, Chisel & Alnico Grande, Sentell P90s, Onamac Pinktones, Gibson Shaws, Anderson H2, Suhr DSH/SSV. Plus Strat/Tele sets from Lindy Fralin, D Allen, Onamac, Chevalier & Kinman.
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"You should know better by now than to introduce science into a discussion of voodoo."
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