Guitar Stuff

Guitars and music has been a passion since age 16. Main influences: the music style of the Shadows and Ventures, 1960's surf music, Mark Knopfler etc.

1. A few of my own backings. Use freely, not for commercial use please.
   Johan's guitar backing tracks.
   

2. Rosie, a cherry-pink 1960's Statocaster (stock, 3-way PU switch). Rosie.

3. Sunburst Strat.
   MP3 Clips made with this guitar
   
   1. Bridge pickup (-Telstar-)
      Neck pickup (-Lonesome Moonride-)
      

4. Chrome-Red Strat. Custom guitar.
   
   MP3 Clips made with this guitar
   
   1. Bridge pickup (-Driftin-)
      
   2. Middle pickup (-Atlantis-)
      

5. SG and Tele Project Guitars.
   
   MP3 Clips made with these guitars
   
   1. SG - Neck pickup (split) (-Nivram-)
      
   2. SG - Neck pickup (split) (-Maria Elena-)
      
   3. SG - Neck pickup (split), FET Preamp, Zoom 508 delay (-O mio Signore-)
      
   4. Tele - Neck/bridge pickups(-Apache-)
      
   5. Tele - Neck pickup (-Sleepwalk-)
      
   6. Tele - Neck pickup (-In the mood-)
      

6. P-Bass Project Guitar.
   Hand-made, solid Mahogany body (6 lbs), Fender-licensed neck, minimalist hardware and passive electronics. Total weight is 10 lbs.
   
   MP3 Clips made with this guitar
   
   1. -Jet Black intro-
      
   2. -Meet Mr. Callaghan-
      

7. Ovation 1612 acoustic/electric (circa 1983).
   Ovation.
   Acoustic/electric Ovation model 1612. Retrofitted with gold Schaller tuners. Otherwise stock. Adamas 1919, Phospor Bronze strings.

8. Guitar Effects Electronics.

9. Amps.
   
   My main tube amplifier is a hand-wired replica of a 60's Vintage VOX AC30 that I built from a kit. This is a Weber 6V30 head kit finished in tooled black leather tolex ( see inside.) Most everything is stock, except the power transformer which is a Mercury Magnetics VXP-30. DC filaments for the pre-amp is used. For reliability reasons, additional B+ fusing was added along with cooler biasing. This amp is used with a 2x12 Avatar speaker cabinet, housing a pair of Celestion Alnico Blue, 12-inch, ( speakers).
   
   

10. Strat Single-Coil Pickups and the quest for the perfect tone

11. Alesis Quadraverb (GT) Repair and Restore details.
    

12. Fun at Nokie Edwards' (of the Ventures) Hall-of-Fame induction party:
    Nokie playing on a HitchHiker guitar (awsome Ventures sound).
    Nokie and me.
    

13. With Roy Pedersen at a recent gig in Junction City, Oregon.
    Roy was 94 at the time the picture was taken. He was famous in his heyday as a country-and-western drummer with "The Dudes of the West". Vera, Roy's wife, was the singer in the band.
    Drummer Roy.
    

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