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Topic: Session stories..

Hey Fellow Gearheads..
     So today I learned a valuable lesson.... I blew up some gear during our final session of our new album.   I used smaller amps... I started with my brand new and very great tweed twin "keef" amp.  Blew that up in short order.  I then focused on two amps that sounded amazing.. Again it was combo and 2x12 day... I ended up using a 1990 Sovtek Mig -50 and a 1964 Blackface concert...  Once the Bona-Byrd tuned to a hybrid low B tuning come out the original speakers in the concert decided it was time for a early retirement.  So all in the session was great... I used it until it flamed out.  I justify the loss because the session was so inspiring.. That you cant by or repair.. Anywho.. We start tomorrow at 10:30am ( thank you Gavin and Curtis) to put back together the burnt out wreckage.. 
Session Stories...
Joe B..

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.... all I can say is that I can't wait for the new album  big_smile  and I can't wait to hear what those amps sound like!

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Did you blow the stuff with blues?
I could call something like "BLUES!!!" but I think I rather call

ROCK N ROLL!!!  wink

Ah, right. Can't wait to hear some new material.
By the way, is Slow Train a "new Material" - Song? (I wasn't on the board here for a while)

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Well I hope you got it all down and taped.

Might make a great instrumental piece - "Push Play - to Destruction" - so real you can smell the burning. Bikers and racers do it with rubber so wheres the difference?

I think for an amp it's an honourable way to go, sort of MIA. Blackface, probably pretty much black everything now  lol

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Playing guitar doesn't come cheap...especially with Joe Bonamassive credit card bill around...

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Apparently when Satriani was recording 'Surfing with the Alien', his wah pedal started to die, giving him those really unusual tones towards the end of that song.  It packed it in right as he finished the take.  He kept that take and could never, ever replicate that sound again in following performances.

Love to hear the clips of Joe's speakers and tubes in their death throes...  yikes

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Joe that must be one helluva heavy duty overdrive pedal you use! No wonder you prefer 100W heads. If your discarding the 57 twin, send it my way.

Thanks for sharing.

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great story joe!  cant wait to hear the new album!

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Joe,

love hearing those inside stories...hope you continue to share....got to say that I saw you at the Hampton Beach Casino in NH in Nov......your cut into "dazed and confused" took me back 40+ years when I saw Zep on their first American tour in the same place...doing the same song....OMG....got to say that your playing blew me away.....haven't been that inspired in years....can't wait for the next CD....thanks....later.

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Joe Bonamassa wrote:

Hey Fellow Gearheads..
     So today I learned a valuable lesson.... I blew up some gear during our final session of our new album.   I used smaller amps... I started with my brand new and very great tweed twin "keef" amp.  Blew that up in short order.  I then focused on two amps that sounded amazing.. Again it was combo and 2x12 day... I ended up using a 1990 Sovtek Mig -50 and a 1964 Blackface concert...  Once the Bona-Byrd tuned to a hybrid low B tuning come out the original speakers in the concert decided it was time for a early retirement.  So all in the session was great... I used it until it flamed out.  I justify the loss because the session was so inspiring.. That you cant by or repair.. Anywho.. We start tomorrow at 10:30am ( thank you Gavin and Curtis) to put back together the burnt out wreckage.. 
Session Stories...
Joe B..

so what was the lesson?
stick to hundred watters and 4x12s?
lol  big_smile

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11 Reply by Sonicboom (edited by Sonicboom 2010-12-20 20:13:28)

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Thanks for sharing the story.  It adds priceless color to the music's history. 

What tracks were you working on when it happened so we can listen to these proud servants' final moments and pay our proper respects?

Guitars: '79 LP Custom, '01 Dickey Betts Goldie - 80 of 114, '00 Chandler Lectraslide
Amps: '00 Marshall 1987x, '70 Marshall 1959 SL, 4x12 JBL D120s
'64 Vibroverb - JBL D130, '66 Super Reverb - CTS Alnicos
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Hybrid low B tuning? This sounds epic!

Guitars: 1974 LP Custom, 2013 R8
Amps: '88 JCM 800 w/ TV cab, Tone King Falcon
Effects: Fulltone Clyde, Monsterpiece Stud, EP Booster, Strymon El Capistan

13 Reply by Carol-Ann_Amps (edited by Carol-Ann_Amps 2010-12-21 11:51:18)

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Joe Bonamassa wrote:

Hey Fellow Gearheads..
     So today I learned a valuable lesson.... I blew up some gear during our final session of our new album.   I used smaller amps... I started with my brand new and very great tweed twin "keef" amp.  Blew that up in short order.  I then focused on two amps that sounded amazing.. Again it was combo and 2x12 day... I ended up using a 1990 Sovtek Mig -50 and a 1964 Blackface concert...  Once the Bona-Byrd tuned to a hybrid low B tuning come out the original speakers in the concert decided it was time for a early retirement.  So all in the session was great... I used it until it flamed out.  I justify the loss because the session was so inspiring.. That you cant by or repair.. Anywho.. We start tomorrow at 10:30am ( thank you Gavin and Curtis) to put back together the burnt out wreckage.. 
Session Stories...
Joe B..


Maverick !! You can't just go from a hangar of Typhoons to a Mig and a F-86 ....of course they will flame out....

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Smoking tone=Smoking amps!
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Carol-Ann_Amps wrote:

Maverick !! You can't just go from a hangar of Typhoons to a Mig and a F-86 ....of course they will flame out....

Why am I imagining nothing but Top Gun clips in my head?

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Re: Session stories..

Joe Bonamassa wrote:

Hey Fellow Gearheads..
     So today I learned a valuable lesson.... I blew up some gear during our final session of our new album.   I used smaller amps... I started with my brand new and very great tweed twin "keef" amp.  Blew that up in short order.  I then focused on two amps that sounded amazing.. Again it was combo and 2x12 day... I ended up using a 1990 Sovtek Mig -50 and a 1964 Blackface concert...  Once the Bona-Byrd tuned to a hybrid low B tuning come out the original speakers in the concert decided it was time for a early retirement.  So all in the session was great... I used it until it flamed out.  I justify the loss because the session was so inspiring.. That you cant by or repair.. Anywho.. We start tomorrow at 10:30am ( thank you Gavin and Curtis) to put back together the burnt out wreckage.. 
Session Stories...
Joe B..

Do we know which new tune features the charred Concert?

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Love it! Destroyer of amps and purveyor of smoking (literally!) licks!  big_smile

18 Reply by NPB_EST.1979 (edited by NPB_EST.1979 2011-03-24 10:32:32)

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Re: Session stories..

My own session story last night:

JAMMED on my new 100 watt tube head through 2x12 EVM12L Black Label speakers.... totally held up!
LOVED the tone.... it's a keeper! Much better tone than the Celestion V30...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2 … 1356151998

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