RevDavidLee Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Found this in a drawer in my work shop today. Ahhhh back in the day when I only had 2 pedals - an MXR Distortion+ and a Crybaby Wah and no pedalboards or fancy pedal power strips were needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Dude, that's vintage. Gotta be worth some $. I heard Eric Johnson pays like $100 for those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevDavidLee Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 Not if they're dead batteries I assume Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Vintage batteries give better tone and sustain... I thought everyone knew that :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Sag baby, sag. Can only get it in a vintage battery that is inside a battery compartment that is held together by an asparagus rubberband. Sag, baby. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RevDavidLee Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 Here's some more I found on the internet :) Fun with batteries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 HA! Truth: if someone buys them with the username EJROXX, it really is him. Well, it was him. Long time ago. It was fun arguing with him about old batteries. In the late 90s he was at Philly Phall and a few of us got to sit with him and shoot the crap, and the first thing he said to me when I introduced myself was "...I ain't talkin about no batteries today!". A very nice man Mr. Johnson is, I'm glad he finally fessed up to having everyone about that stuff. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 As "Eveready" (now "Energizer"), was/is a St. Louis company, that's about the only brand of batteries you could/can find around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Sag baby, sag. Can only get it in a vintage battery that is inside a battery compartment that is held together by an asparagus rubberband. Sag, baby. rct Asparagus rubberband????? Dude!! WTF??? Where do you get this sh!t? Your humor is poetic. I love you man! Some days,, you really make this forum for me. I thank you for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Asparagus rubberband????? Dude!! WTF??? Where do you get this sh!t? Your humor is poetic. I love you man! Some days,, you really make this forum for me. I thank you for that. Oh jeez. It's from an actual argument we actually had in rmmg, 96, 97 maybe. EJ was getting lots of press about the whole no screws in his pedals thing, and anyone of any age did that without even thinking about it, because it was much easier to keep up with those pesky batteries. And I suggested that asparagus rubberbands were better. It's very old. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Oh jeez. It's from an actual argument we actually had in rmmg, 96, 97 maybe. EJ was getting lots of press about the whole no screws in his pedals thing, and anyone of any age did that without even thinking about it, because it was much easier to keep up with those pesky batteries. And I suggested that asparagus rubberbands were better. It's very old. rct Lol.. Allright.. I am of age but I gotta admit.. I don't know what rmmg is but I'm assuming it was some form of bulletin board from the early internets days? Never interested me in the least back then to be honest. I remember working with a gent who was so excited he could post a comment on this "bulletin board" thingy,, and then have a response from somebody 2 thousand miles away,, and have a conversation, for free. This woulda been back in the mid 90s I guess. I had no interest in it whatsoever. To me it was a modern CB radio which I had no interest in either. I was never really a gear head though. So I never gave my stuff a second thought. Kinda like I don't much now. So I guess I missed the boat on a lot of this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 Lol.. Allright.. I am of age but I gotta admit.. I don't know what rmmg is but I'm assuming it was some form of bulletin board from the early internets days? Never interested me in the least back then to be honest. I remember working with a gent who was so excited he could post a comment on this "bulletin board" thingy,, and then have a response from somebody 2 thousand miles away,, and have a conversation, for free. This woulda been back in the mid 90s I guess. I had no interest in it whatsoever. To me it was a modern CB radio which I had no interest in either. I was never really a gear head though. So I never gave my stuff a second thought. Kinda like I don't much now. So I guess I missed the boat on a lot of this stuff. rec.music.makers.guitar Usenet was the home of newsgroups. Everything you could imagine was discussed in its own newsgroup. They are still archived somewhere, I think Google has all of them now. It was not something easy to describe, it was a free-for-all. Some of the best comedy ever, guitar players from all over the world. Then came Harmony Central Guitar Forum, and that was a bunch of nuts for a few good years, and some great stuff came out of there, along with a lot of the dumb crap you still hear repeated today. After that it was all forums and then myspace and stuff like that. Hasn't been much in the old newsgroups in a long time. I stop by rmmg occasionally, somebody has been digging up some great posts from the mid90s and they make me laugh. It was fun. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 They all claim "longLife"....SURE....."long" after they are dead !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueblooded Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 This is one AWESOME looking battery! Must have been some bad-*** dude that ran that company and named this one. Now-a-days it'd have pictures of happy little trees and a trash can with a red circle and slash over it. Sure do miss the good old days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 For true vintage tone, that battery will do it. When you stomp on it, stomp it again. Exact duplicate vintage sound performance there. For TRUE vintage experience, extra points if you can plug the right cord in the right input before anyone notices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevDavidLee Posted September 27, 2014 Author Share Posted September 27, 2014 Now-a-days it'd have pictures of happy little trees and a trash can with a red circle and slash over it. Sure do miss the good old days. Amen. I miss the cheaper prices of batteries back then too :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted September 27, 2014 Share Posted September 27, 2014 I miss the cheaper prices of batteries back then too :( I order mine in bulk from Batteries and Butter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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