Mesa Engineering - Randy Smith - NOT cool

[Thundermtn]

Re: Mesa Engineering - Randy Smith - NOT cool

You know what is cool, and I get face melting tone out of?

20 years old, roaded hard, a few tube changes but never had a single problem with it.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: Mesa Engineering - Randy Smith - NOT cool

You know what is cool, and I get face melting tone out of?
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20 years old, roaded hard, a few tube changes but never had a single problem with it.

About 15 years ago I was playing in a band and we had a new guitar player come down and jam with us. He had the same amp as you have in that pic.
I was still setting up my JCM 800 and he had just finished. When he flipped the switch and hit a few chords, my F’in jaw dropped!!
My amp was no slouch, by any means but it was my first tune amp and I was just learning how to properly drive it. And at the point, fairly I successfully I might add.
Up until that point I had never, in person heard an amp that sounded THAT good. It was a revelation for me.

 

[CaptainWhizz]

Re: Mesa Engineering - Randy Smith - NOT cool

You nailed the point I completely missed. Why am I mad: in his own story he puts himself as the struggling friend of all the SF area rock legends, packaging a bassman amp in a Princeton chassis and shoving a 12" speaker in the cabinet and became a legend in his own mind. He stumbled on a stacked preamp circuit and got a second big shot to hang out with the rock stars. So what?
Not mentioned in his story is getting an army of lawyers involved.
That is what makes me mad, lawyers.

Did he find it lying at the side of the road?

 

[chadd]

Re: Mesa Engineering - Randy Smith - NOT cool

Mesa has introduced more new features than just about any other amp maker in my lifetime and they haven't sent production overseas to save money. I've owned a few of their amps and they will continue to be my first choice

 

[6stringerguy]

Re: Mesa Engineering - Randy Smith - NOT cool

The only things that I can give Boogie credit for is the Mark series of amps are incredible and they still produce the majority if not all their products in the USA while many of their competitors are moving to Far East to cut cost and supporting the US workforce in the field although small is better than nothing

 

[justFred]

Re: Mesa Engineering - Randy Smith - NOT cool

Let's suppose Fender/CBS glanced over as Mesa Boogie LTD was getting off the ground. Maybe after the 700th Princeton Boogie or just after they moved to Petaluma. They might have decided to litigate MB out of business just like MB did to Mitchell Amplifiers.
It's would have just been business right?

 

[Mincer]

Re: Mesa Engineering - Randy Smith - NOT cool

I don't know what the issue is here, but this isn't the place to discuss it.