Re: Vivian Campbell's Dio tone from 1984 - which pickups
Idk... I'd say Greenbacks are this weird symbol of vintage-gear-mania that people who don't know speakers really loooove to mention.
Btw when you open a cab from a self-professed greenback lover, there's a damn good chance it doesn't actually contain greenbacks.
I *think* it originated with Marshall switching up the speakers they ship with their standard 4x12" cabinets and getting some pushback from customers who got something other than they expected (possibly M70's, people seem to loooove to hate them)....first their customers started complaining and demanding to know why "it doesn't sound like the old one", THEN some marketing guys at Marshall and/or Celestion got the bright idea to market MULTIPLE speakers, among them the g12-65 ****AND**** later on the T75 as "high power greenbacks" or "greenback voiced" or similar unhelpful statements in their advertising literature
Hell they STILL do it with the T75 / 1960A&B.
And then you get all these craigslist pawnshop etc people talking bout their greenback cab...which don't have no greenbacks.
I'd have to check, but if it sounds like GOOD 80's metal tone, it's probably g12-80 (old ones NOT current "classic lead" labelled speakers, current closest modern product is probably the Mesa/Celestion Black Shadow MC90) or g12-65.... greenbacks are more up Jimi Hendrix's alley
Idk... I'd say Greenbacks are this weird symbol of vintage-gear-mania that people who don't know speakers really loooove to mention.
Btw when you open a cab from a self-professed greenback lover, there's a damn good chance it doesn't actually contain greenbacks.
I *think* it originated with Marshall switching up the speakers they ship with their standard 4x12" cabinets and getting some pushback from customers who got something other than they expected (possibly M70's, people seem to loooove to hate them)....first their customers started complaining and demanding to know why "it doesn't sound like the old one", THEN some marketing guys at Marshall and/or Celestion got the bright idea to market MULTIPLE speakers, among them the g12-65 ****AND**** later on the T75 as "high power greenbacks" or "greenback voiced" or similar unhelpful statements in their advertising literature
Hell they STILL do it with the T75 / 1960A&B.
And then you get all these craigslist pawnshop etc people talking bout their greenback cab...which don't have no greenbacks.
I'd have to check, but if it sounds like GOOD 80's metal tone, it's probably g12-80 (old ones NOT current "classic lead" labelled speakers, current closest modern product is probably the Mesa/Celestion Black Shadow MC90) or g12-65.... greenbacks are more up Jimi Hendrix's alley
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