Luke Duke
PRSlustologist
In my Dark Lord gig thread I was reminded I haven't shared my experience about my main gigging amp.
That amp is my *secret weapon* the drummer would say. It was built by a guy in Fayetteville Arkansas named Joe Twist and is called a Twist Blues 25 Watt. It's essentially a wide panel Pro with trem that I got with a roadcase for my Les Paul special with buckers. I run it into a DST cab with a homemade 2x12 baffle....with one Private Jack! I slam the front with 1 of 4 dirt pedals if I need more gain Rat2, GT-OD, Analogman SD1, or Script Distortion+. I rebadged it with a mid-50s Ford style V8 emblem and put engine turn on the faceplate with decals denoting car things. RPM (volume) Mix rich\lean (Tone), Duration (speed) Lift (intensity) and Ignition (on/off)
I've heard both the singer and drummer talking to people about telling folks how it's better than "any Marshall you'll ever hear" which I'm guessing their way of saying that you can't get Marshalls to sound good at lower levels.
That amp has a great debut story. We were playing at a fundraiser to cover funeral expenses for a guy who was a local drummer. We were the only cover band invited, and the only band not playing "Teh BROOTALZ" cookie monster vocals stuff. So our singer's cousin, who sang for one of the other bands, helped me get my stuff out to set up. I took my board, the amp/cab and my EBMM 25th anniversary. When he saw it he started laughing and harassing me. "Hey man is that a battery charger?" to which I replied, "yeah it is, I need plenty of voltage onstage". He started calling over everyone pointing it out and laughing hysterically. I had previously talked to his guitarist who was using a Mesa Mark V and LP. So when he came up to look at the commotion he immediately looked for tubes and was like "hey man it's got tubes, you probably need to move along it'll be fine". The singer kept on and on until he finally decided to get a beer and sit down. After I had everything running I hit a few dirty notes, then hit a boost and the whole place went deathly quiet and all eyes were on me and the amp. The guitarist was at the stage immediately. "What is that?! What's on your board? Are you going to use it all tonight, tell me about the EBMM" All the way till we started. 3 songs into our set the singer came up and started apologizing. "I didn't know man....I just....I just didn't KNOW! I'm sorry, I'll keep my mouth shut next time. I mean how could I have know that could make THAT sound?!"
So ever since then the amp has been affectionately called...the Battery Charger.
That amp is my *secret weapon* the drummer would say. It was built by a guy in Fayetteville Arkansas named Joe Twist and is called a Twist Blues 25 Watt. It's essentially a wide panel Pro with trem that I got with a roadcase for my Les Paul special with buckers. I run it into a DST cab with a homemade 2x12 baffle....with one Private Jack! I slam the front with 1 of 4 dirt pedals if I need more gain Rat2, GT-OD, Analogman SD1, or Script Distortion+. I rebadged it with a mid-50s Ford style V8 emblem and put engine turn on the faceplate with decals denoting car things. RPM (volume) Mix rich\lean (Tone), Duration (speed) Lift (intensity) and Ignition (on/off)
I've heard both the singer and drummer talking to people about telling folks how it's better than "any Marshall you'll ever hear" which I'm guessing their way of saying that you can't get Marshalls to sound good at lower levels.
That amp has a great debut story. We were playing at a fundraiser to cover funeral expenses for a guy who was a local drummer. We were the only cover band invited, and the only band not playing "Teh BROOTALZ" cookie monster vocals stuff. So our singer's cousin, who sang for one of the other bands, helped me get my stuff out to set up. I took my board, the amp/cab and my EBMM 25th anniversary. When he saw it he started laughing and harassing me. "Hey man is that a battery charger?" to which I replied, "yeah it is, I need plenty of voltage onstage". He started calling over everyone pointing it out and laughing hysterically. I had previously talked to his guitarist who was using a Mesa Mark V and LP. So when he came up to look at the commotion he immediately looked for tubes and was like "hey man it's got tubes, you probably need to move along it'll be fine". The singer kept on and on until he finally decided to get a beer and sit down. After I had everything running I hit a few dirty notes, then hit a boost and the whole place went deathly quiet and all eyes were on me and the amp. The guitarist was at the stage immediately. "What is that?! What's on your board? Are you going to use it all tonight, tell me about the EBMM" All the way till we started. 3 songs into our set the singer came up and started apologizing. "I didn't know man....I just....I just didn't KNOW! I'm sorry, I'll keep my mouth shut next time. I mean how could I have know that could make THAT sound?!"
So ever since then the amp has been affectionately called...the Battery Charger.
