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He was 80 and in very poor health; had retired from music in 2017 but he did have an incredible life. Part of the soundtrack to my youth; I still have the albums. He wrote some of the Allmans best tunes. R.I.P.

"Good Evening Everybody" - Sonny Boy Williamson

Go to top right where the circle J and your name are. Left click on your name or the arrow next to it and you should get drop-down menu; Profile, My attachments, Settings, sign out etc. Avatars have to be under a certain size (it tells you).......you may have already found out that to upload any other photos here, you need a (free) image-hosting account. Upload photos to there and copy/paste the Direct Link it shows you straight into your post on this forum.

"Harlem Air Shaft" - Duke Ellington

Condolences and best wishes T-Man. You have been missed.

Hi I also llive in the UK (SE), am 70 in June and was there that night too, to see Jimi. It waas freezing cold and windy by the time he came on. Your 1967 ES-330 will be worth ££££ now! To post photos here you have to join an image-sharing website (free - Imgur, Postimage, etc) and upload your photos to that. Then when you want to put one in, you copy the 'Direct Link' code it gives you on the site and paste that in. Best wishes!

"In Your Own Sweet Way" - Dave Brubeck

I once had about 15 mins with a blue Fulldrive which had those extra little switches. It sounded superb - transparent and sensitive. You don't need a KOT with that and the OCD onboard! 🎸

It is a fairly standard design; right-to-left dual od/dist with the od/boost on the right. It has DIP switches inside which you can use to change the character of each side from clean boost to od to distortion. The knobs for each side are; Vol, Drive (gain) and Tone. The manufacturer makes the point that it is 2 pedals, 2 circuits in one box, not a single circuit and neither is a Tubescreamer or BluesBreaker copy. It does not add the midrange 'hump' that a Tubescreamer does. The newest ones (V4 I think) have other options which you can specify when you finally get to the top of the list and order one. However the main thing is that is simply sounds so good and is so versatile. It's just the best, most articulate od/distortion I've had, not that I've tried them all. If you want to drive an amp, Klon-style, it can do that; if you want a bluesy od which cleans up when you turn the guitar vol down, it does that very well indeed. If you have both channels on at once you can get into Robben Ford/Dumble territory (and it sounds better at that than the Xotic AC+) or hairier/grittier, depending on what amp you are using. However it is not a 'metal' pedal. $700 is a bit high IMO (depends on what version and what options) but over here in the UK s/h ones are going for around £500-600. OTOH since it came out everyone has jumped on the dual od/distortion bandwagon, for instance the Wampler site alone lists 5 different dual od variations including 'signature' models - Brent Mason, Brad Paisley, etc. Wampler have a considerable rep and I think those would be worth hearing. https://www.wamplerpedals.com/products/c/distortion-overdrive/ I will also say that the Xotic AC+ is a very useable/useful pedal (one side is based on a Tubescreamer) with features like being able to change A>B to B>A, and tone boost; now out of production, these are incredibly cheap s/h, less than $100, and at that sort of price it's well worth picking one up. Same with the Xotic BB+ which has more crunch and goes for a little more. And made in USA AFAIK. A pretty good MIC clone will cost you even less, of course: https://affordaboard.co.uk/browse-stock/ols/products/king-of-drive Best wishes Caliman!

I got an Ibanez DCF10 after getting deeply into "Eyewitness" Steve Khan. In one of his music books he describes using the DCF10 in some detail. There is reference to it here on his excellent website. http://www.stevekhan.com/equipment.htm The guitar sound on that 1982 album was beautiful. The rhythm section is Anthony Jackson, Steve Jordan and Manolo Badrena and the combination sounds fantastic. One of the best guitar LPs of the 80s for me. The King Of Tone; I got on the list and got mine in about..2013? Here's the page, scroll for history - https://www.analogman.com/kingtone.htm Dual overdrives - I also had a VS Jekyll&Hyde vs 1 (now gone) and a Xotic AC+ (used this for years as my main drive pedal) which I still have. Then I got the KOT and didn't keep up with all the new dual pedals coming out. IMO it deserves its considerable reputation but I think the waiting list is 4-5 years now! So many more excellent dual ODs on the market these days which probably are comparable, cost less and can be bought right away.. The choice seems endless AFAIK. The silver box is an analog delay pedal built by Dub-T-123 of this forum. Hold down switch on the left to max out the feedback. I think the he said the circuit is similar to a Mad Professor Deep Blue delay, anyway it has great tone and the controls are volume, delay time, mix and feedback. I like analog delays and have 4. The Eventide Ultratap is another thing, however.

Rock board, old pic but still set up like this - the PSU is a Burkey flatliner 6, made in the Netherlands. Everything runs off it. The tuner is not in the chain, which is vol pedal>comp>KOT>Rat (3-way switch mod)> GE7 (modded)>Vib>Chorus>Dub delay>Reverb. Howver I gig very rarely now....as I'm in a jazz group! Though we did one last Friday. Pic of jazz board to come. On that I have Boss FV500 volume pedal> VSRoute 66 comp/od>Boss GE7 modded>Ibanez Echo Shifter>Ibanez DCF10 chorus/flanger>Marshall Reflector Reverb>BBE Sonic Stomp. PSU is a cheap Caline which works very well. Both boards are Stagg pedal cases, good enough for me. Best thread so far this year IMO

I had a Meatball which was/is everything Dub says they are. On bass and keyboards it was like a synth. One thing to note is that Dan Coggins who built every Lovetone pedal is no longer supporting them and will not repair them anymore. See the Lovetone page here - https://cogginsaudio.co.uk/ @Phil OKeefe you may wish to start collecting Thorpy pedals!

I (still) have about 40 pedals but I'm not up with the modern ambient reverb and glitchy ones. Or loopers - which is my bad, as they say. Might post pics. Most recent pedal I got is the Eventide Ultratap butI don't like having to have a computer app in order to access all the features. I have a few delay pedals including a Dub Dark Cloud...I wish I'd asked him to add a tap tempo function now. A modded Rat and/or DS-1 is a fine thing; I have both, and 2 modded Boss GE7 eq pedals. My favourite chorus is the Ibanez DCF10; I used to collect chorus pedals and wish I still had the Ibanez CSL which was one of the very best-sounding choruses I've heard. The MXR reissue chorus M134 and M117 flanger are 99% accurate reissues as far as sound goes - I know because I had originals and still have an old MXR limiter which is a fine soft-knee compressor. The Keeley 4-knob comp deserves its rep. The Foxrox Octron II is brilliant. The Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe + has plenty of good sounds but is fussy with connections and too large. The VS Route 66 OD/comp is very useful and I also have an Xotic AC+, though that has been superseded by a King of Tone; sneer if you like, but it's the best-sounding overdrive I've ever had by a country mile. I've noticed that some of my pedals don't like being connected to a common psu however good it is. We need a pedal thread badly (or even bigly) so I am not into Klons or Klones; I bought a cheap one and it did nothing that can't be done with a fairly standard OD pedal IMO.

I've been left in High Dudgeon many times.

Yes I see the binding in your pic is not the same 3-ply (or whatever it's called) as most ES-347 headstocks. I'll look a bit further this weekend! Best wishes.