Les Moore

This was great fun for me to create and done so with the utmost respect. I work for Blue Note NYC in a senior digital design capacity and got to design and produce a series of digital and print admats for a Charlie Watts tribute show here in NYC. Should be an interesting show, never know who may show up. I gave them to Tim Ries (he's the Stones' touring sax player) and he loved them, which made me really happy as I knew I was on the right page for this design, just felt right, and he confirmed that. That's also Darryl Jones who is Wyman's replacement on bass, and Fowler who does vocal duties. They're all members of the Stones' touring band and were all good friends with Watts. Tim and Charlie were especially good friends as Watts also played the sax and was a big Charlie Parker fan. There's actually more of these but due to size limits on this forum I can only put up this. This is poster size but made smaller for here.

Really cool. Thanks for that. What did you have in mind for the finish?

There's some on that Reverb link I posted that date back to the 40's, and there's a few on there from the very early 50s and under $1000, now if that had a Fender name on them they'd be going for 1000s...those really early ones fascinate me...I would love to hear them. Put some modern pedals in front of them too...they're so simple. And they're all pretty much made in the Kalamazoo factory...I'm kind of amazed at some of the asking prices, that's some rich history Gibson behind them...tempting just because they're really not asking for much...

Reverb has a lot of Gibson amps for sale, first time I checked actually, this thread got me curious...they're out there: https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=Gibson amps

Sweet. I did really like the Skylark. At 5 watts of tube, it breaks up very nicely. I'd love to check out those others, they're just not around much to test and play.

Thanks for the info. So I heard, making a play for the amp market. Mesa's are great amps, but not ones I gravitate to.

I've heard the Skylark (the silver face combo), and it was nice sounding...5 watts, all tubes, real simple controls, breaks up easily and nicely, I think Gibson had country music in mind when they did them and were made primarily for slide guitars; has a volume, bass and treble and some tremolo knobs, that's it. I don't know what they call that other beast, the head/cabinet pic, but it is good looking, don't know how it sounds, but how bad could it be? Would love to hear it. Probably more on the rare side to find one...they own the guitar market but Gibson never really broke through on the amp side of things. That Les Paul combo looks tasty too...

Mosrite actually has a Ventures line of guitars.

Yeah, not cheap these days...but a new one can be had for a lot less. American made would cost about $1500-1600 new...they are sweet.

😂😂😂 Careful, man...the Jazzmaster-surf-music police will get you...

This is one of my go-tos for sure. It's a '79 Custom. I do have LP Jr and a Strat as well, but the strat is only 2 weeks old, just got it.

Ha. I'm not like that at all...I agree. It's just the most, if not all, surf music is not done with an LP, and definitely not with a Marshall Plexi and that surf music crowd can be sticklers for it. Me? I couldn't care less. I love that Marshall with a drippy reverb on it, like a dirty surf sound...was actually the inspiration for the whole thing.

Sincerest thanks for the kind words, and for watching and listening...much appreciated. I don't know how to give the 'thumbs up' on here, I've seen it on other pages, but doesn't seem to allow me to...so to all a big... 👍

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Thanks. Great amps. I love my Showman; plays very well with an LP.