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    Epiphone EJ-160E Owners

    in Epiphone Acoustics

    Posted

    Nice amps - I found mine was fine through an electric practice amp (probably because it's a passive pickup) but not so great through a mixer and active speaker setup. Is your strung with electric or acoustic strings? Mine has pure acoustic which is probably another factor.

     

    It's strung with the strings that came with it - acoustic. No plans to change them. Just enjoying the new git :)

    Epiphone EJ-160E Owners

    in Epiphone Acoustics

    Posted

    Hey Rev what are you plugging into?

    I have one of the older John Lennon signature models and the pickup doesn't sound very good - weak and not very loud - considering either installing a new pickup or a Behringer AD121 pedal between the guitar and mixer.

     

    The first amp I plugged into was this one:

     

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    But then I ran her through my usual acoustic amps (SWR)

     

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    Epiphone EJ-160E Owners

    in Epiphone Acoustics

    Posted

    Congratulations! Great looking guitar!

     

    How does it sound Acoustic? Electric?

     

    What shaped neck does it have?

     

    QM aka Jazzman Jeff

     

    The neck is a 1960's Slim Taper D profile and it feels perfect - very easy on the hands and playability is surprisingly good for such an inexpensive guitar. She sounds very good both plugged in & unplugged - spruce top with select mahongany back & sides are responsible for that. I've read a few negative comments about the pickup on these models being weak or lacking bass response - I don't hear that at all. I would gig with this with no concerns. I'm very happy with this purchase. For comparitive views I own Martins & Gibsons as well so it's not like this was my first purchase in this realm. Love it love it love it [thumbup]

    Epiphone EJ-160E Owners

    in Epiphone Acoustics

    Posted

    It's here! And as others have noted - the "e" fell right off the pick guard right away. That's fine with me as it would most definitely got whacked off of there while playing it [biggrin]

     

    The guitar is stunning. I expected a satin type finish & it's beautifully glossy and feels great to play. I haven't plugged it in yet - just enjoying it unplugged so far.

     

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    Epiphone EJ-160E Owners

    in Epiphone Acoustics

    Posted

    FINALLY this girl will be arriving this week! I hate when I order something that says it's "In Stock & Ready to Ship" to being backordered & waiting weeks for them to get them in stock. Anyhow I got the "Your item has shipped" notice last night so will post up photos when she gets here :)

    Epiphone EJ-160E Owners

    in Epiphone Acoustics

    Posted

    I have one of the original EJ160es with the signature too and it's a great guitar but the pickup apparently reacts better to electric strings. I have never tried this as I've only played it acoustically. Have tried it through a PA (straight into the mixer) and it sounded better through an electric amp because of the mag pickup. I find it sounds better (to my ear) with 11s although think it's set up for 12s.

     

    Thank you Sir! I'll let you know when she gets here the results of my messing around with her :)

    Does Gibson still make amps?

    in Gibson Amplifiers

    Posted

    I have a GA 6 that my parents bought for me in the 50's, still sounds great.

     

    I also have the Gold Tone head and two cabinets, i bought them in 2000, trace elliot, made in the UK.

     

    4 EL 84 power tubes, this amp is one of the best amps made, two channels, separate eq's including separate reverb settings, parallel and serial loops, with vol controls on each, with the 5 way foot switch controlling boost, loop, channel, reverb, and mixing the two channels.

     

    It is also one of quietest amps at idle.

     

    The cabinets have vintage 30 speakers, 2 10's open back and 2 12's closed back.

     

    the tone can be from pushed Marshall to a pristine vox and just about anything in between. Personally, it does jazz so good, K. Burrell, Wes tone etc.

     

    If you can get your hands on a combo or head do it.

     

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    Goldtone GA-30RVH Footswitch ??

    in Gibson Amplifiers

    Posted

    Hey Guys,

    I just relogged in to site recently. Been out of touch for a few years.

    I have british made ga30rvh. Flakey reverb and all but I still love it.

    Sorry I missed the 5 way foot-switch that Rev found recently. If you see another let me know~

    Also, I've been chasing the sgt cabinet for a while as well. Had one destroyed by ups from gc.

     

    This guy is building them:

     

     

    https://reverb.com/item/2335079-buggfx-5-button-footswitch-for-trace-elliot-speed-twin-gibson-super-goldtone-amplifier

    Has it really been 44 years?

    in The Gibson Lounge

    Posted

    I had a conversation with Jim Morrison years ago in Paris. Maybe I can shed some light on this subject:

     

    It was a chance meeting down in a cafe off the Rue de L’Unbathed, late summer 1970 I think.

    I was sitting at a small table by myself, smoking Gauloises and trying to drink-off a small hangover I had going with a glass of Cabernet Swinevienon.

    It wasn’t helping, as I recalled, so I began working on the whole bottle. (Nothing rinses those rough little sweaters off your teeth like a dry French red wine.)

     

    I was just picking a fleck of cork off of my tongue when a deep voice rumbled off to my left.

    “Don’t you hate it when that happens?” I turned and peered into the shade of the cafe awning. Seated at a table next to the brick wall was a long haired fellow with a substantial beard and aviator sunglasses.

    I recognized him instantly, even with the facial hair and shades.

     

    “Not really,” I responded as I contemplated the bit of cork under the morning sun, “Sometimes this is the only roughage I get all day.”

     

    The fellow invited me over to his table, so I grabbed the bottle and vaulted the iron rail to join him. He shook my hand and introduced himself as Jimmy.

    “You’re American, right?”, he inquired politely.

     

    I replied that I was, and we sat in silence for a moment. I had recently affected a beret, and was failing in my attempt to grow a small goatee.

    I explained that I was on a long sabbatical from school, and was summering in Paris. I just wanted to blend-in, I guess.

     

    “Well, Maurice Chevalier you ain’t,” my new breakfast companion offered.

    “Look, just because you’re living in Paris doesn’t mean you’ve got to try and be un bon Parisian. Look at me, I’m just a redneck, and I never try to pretend otherwise. These Frog’s will respect you more if you’ll just relax and be yourself.”

     

    I thanked him for his advice, and poured us both a glass of the red.

     

    “Say, Jimmy, you are Jim Morrison, aren’t you?”, I ventured. “I don’t want to be rude, but I thought Jim Morrison was a sophisticated, eclectic San Francisco poet. Not a redneck by any means.”

     

    He raised his sunglasses for a moment and peered at me with his eyes, and then looked left and right before he responded. “Alright, you got me there. I WAS Jim Morrison the singer/poet for awhile, but not anymore. I got tired of living a lie.”

     

    Jimmy topped off his glass and continued, “See, the popular music industry, and even the Haight Ashbury phonies wouldn’t have come to see Jimmy Don Morrison from Melbourne, Florida. I was a Navy brat, and grew up mainly on coastal Florida bases. I only moved to California when I started college.”

     

    Jimmy paused to take a sip of wine. “ You wanna know where I first met Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead? We were butchering hogs on the same crew at a slaughterhouse outside of Modesto! How do you think he lost that finger? Jerry’s was playing weekends with the Black Mountain Boys at the time, and needed the extra money to get thru the week. I tell you, he’s just a country boy at heart, but that kinda thing isn’t in vogue right now.”

     

    He reflected on that memory for a moment or two and then spoke again.

    “I am ashamed to admit it, but I was trying to be somebody I wasn’t, kinda like you there Maurice, in order to sell records. But not anymore!” With that, he leaned over, removed my beret, and chucked-it away, and burst into a hearty laugh.

     

    Quite by accident, the offending headgear landed on a nearby table, and knocked a cup of coffee onto the lap of a beautiful young French lady.

    She stumbled up out of her seat and stormed past our table on her way out.

    “Le PIG!!”, she spat at Jimmy, and then dismissed me with a, “Le Enfante Terrible‘!!!”

     

    Jimmy Don leaned over and admired her form as she departed. “Quite a handsome toilette‘ on that little Fifi.”

    He smiled and leaned back in chair. “She’ll be back, though. I’ve noticed her scoping me out for days now. I’m going to have her in the sack by lunchtime, or my name is not The Formerly Great Lizard King!”

     

    “Wow, I’ve got to confess, this is all quite a revelation to me. Country boy, skirt-chaser.....”

    I took a breath to form my next sentence correctly, “I was under the impression that you were a bit of a San Francisco poofter.”

    The wine was not only curing my hangover, but had made me a little bold and overly-familiar.

     

    “I know, I know, I get that all the time,” he said. “You heard a story about that night in Max’s Kansas City, me going down on Jimi Hendrix, right?”

     

    I confessed that he had hit the nail on the head, although the pun was lost on me at the time.

     

    “Well, here’s how that story got started; I had been on a bourbon and barbiturate bender all day. Jimi rang me up at my hotel about an hour before the gig at Max’s was to begin, so we didn’t have enough time to go get some sit-down food.

    Jimi knew a great Barbeque place right around the corner, so we went in there and got some ribs to go.”

     

    The bearded fellow topped-off his glass and poured the dregs of the wine into my glass before he continued the story, “He and I scarf-down the vittles back stage, and then before you know it, it’s time for him to go on. Jimi straps-on his Stratocaster, wipes his mouth-off with his sleeve, and goes out there and starts to play. I head over to the bar and resume my whiskey drinking, and sit back to enjoy the show.”

     

    He stopped for a second. “You want to split another bottle? I can order us something better than this paint thinner here.”

     

    A proper bottle of Bordeaux shows up, and we enjoy a swallow or two of that before Morrison resumes his story.

     

    “So I’m sitting there watching Hendrix play, and as he gyrates and wails on it, something on his guitar keeps catching my eye. I lean forward and try to focus, which isn’t easy because of all the alcohol and pills in my system, and sure enough, there is a hunk of pork rib clinging to Jimi’s volume knob. He’s up there playing his *** off, and the crowd is grooving on it, but he never washed his hands you see, and his doggone supper is smeared all over his guitar!!”

     

    Jimmy drums his fingers on the table and fumes for a moment. “I hate that kind of stuff, man. It’s so unprofessional! Jimi picked up a lot of bad habits while playing the Chitlin’ Circuit after his stint in the Army, and that was one of them. He never washed his hands after eating, and his axe was always messy as a result! People are always talking about how ‘fluid and effortless’ Jimi Hendrix’s playing is....., SHOOT! That ain’t fluid, it’s BARBEQUE SAUCE!!”

     

    I interject, “So, you weren’t going up there to, um, blow him or anything, you were just trying to...”

     

    Morrison exploded, “I crawled up there to get that messy piece of pork rib off his guitar! I figured if snuck up there quietly, and licked the barbeque off the damn thing real quick, nobody’d hardly notice. I was just trying to do him a favor.”

    He grinned sheepishly and reflected, “I know it sounds stupid, but heck, you do stupid stuff when you’re under the influence. Look at what happened to me in Miami!!”

     

    “Anyway, after that, the word got out that I got down in front of Jimi Hendrix onstage, and pretty soon the whole world thinks I’m a damned switch-hitter. Why do you think I’m living over here in Paris, for God’s sake. These people don’t care what you do, you can walk around in mime paint and hold up a sign declaring you’re the Queen of Normandy, they don’t give a s#$t.”

     

    Jimmy Don seemed to lose his steam and sat there swirling his wine glass around for a bit.

     

    “You know why I left the Doors?”, he suddenly offered, lowering his voice. “Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger were even bigger pigs than Jimi was.”

    This bit of gossip seemed to be a vindication for him.

    “Ray was always spilling his lunch on his keyboard, and then trying to play the damn thing with coleslaw all over the keys. And Robby always had Twinkie filling and stuff stuck on his strings. What slobs! Unprofessional slobs, I tell you, I just couldn’t stand it.”

     

    He glanced up toward the cafe entrance and suddenly smiled. Standing there was the previously-angry coffee-stained girl. She fidgeted by the awning and stared at him with a meaningful look in her eye.

     

    “Alright, boy, looks like I’ve got a date.” He threw a few bills down on the table.

    “Thanks for the wine and the company, and um, everything.”

     

    He paused and put his hand on my shoulder. “Look, why don’t you consider going back to school? I don’t think this is the place for you. I’ve got an old friend who dropped out for awhile, but he went back and finished and even got his teaching certificate. Fella by the name of Leonard Skinner. Teaches and coaches boys athletics down in Florida now. He used to say, ‘Big wheels keep on turnin’. I think that meant, ‘Get on the train, boy, or it’s going to leave you behind’. Or something to that effect. Anyway, think about it. Nice meeting you, Maurice.”

     

    Morrison walked away, put his arm around the girl, and strolled off down the avenue. I never saw him again.

    A year later he was dead, as was Hendrix. I guess the train left both of them behind.

     

    Anyway, I went back to the States, finished elementary school, and went on to have a pretty good life.

     

    I’ve never looked at popular music quite the same way again. To this day, I can never hear a Hendrix song or a Doors tune without getting a little melancholy, and more than a little hungry for some barbequed ribs.

     

    [sad]

     

    That is one of the most interesting things about Jim Morrison I've ever read. Wow. Thanks for sharing! [omg]

    Goldtone GA-30RVH Footswitch ??

    in Gibson Amplifiers

    Posted

    A buddy of mine just bought a sweet Goldtone GA-30RVH. However it does not have the 5 way foot controler. Any idea where one can be found or is there a substitute that would work for him??

     

    Well 2 years later I found one for your friend. Don't know if he still has the amp or not after all this time but here's the footswitch for sale on Reverb for $100 in case you're even still checking in here. This is not my ad. [smile] Here's the link:

     

     

    https://reverb.com/item/785069-gibson-super-goldtone-foot-controller

     

    Also private messaged & emailed you. I hope if your friend still has that amp he can jump on this - these things never come up for sale. Ok then, I'm done here [biggrin]

    Looking for the right J45

    in Gibson Acoustic

    Posted

    Wow. Tough crowd.

     

     

    Well thankfully it isn't that way very often. :)

     

    This is truly one of the most helpful forums on the net 99% of the time. I'm no expert on the J45's as I just bought myself a used J45 Custom a few months ago. If you can try some out locally please do that because, for me & most of us here (I think), we know it's the right one when we hold it in our hands. This is a big investment and the only one that has to be satisfied in this purchase Sir - is YOU.

     

    If you can't find one locally that really feels right to you, do as others have suggested and seek out those dealers that will allow you to easily return/exchange until you find the one for you! Enjoy yourself, there's no rush here. And when you do find "the one", may it bring you decades of great music and enjoyment!

     

    And of course we love guitar porn here so if you could post some pictures after the fact - we would love that. Welcome to the Gibson forum! [thumbup]

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