Preston
284 posts
Apr 19, 2009
8:41 AM
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My wife is a stay-at-home-mom. We make a pretty good team: I make the money and she does the budget and decides how it gets spent.
Well I had finally convinced her that I needed $90 for a Chris Michalek lesson, and she reluctantly forked it over against her better judgement. And I really was gonna take a Skype lesson as soon as I got my web cam up and running, but in true rock and roll fashion I spent it on an Ep Vavle Jr.
I know, I know the lesson would've been a MUCH better investment, but sometimes you gotta jump on a good deal when you see it. (I'm sure I can get some more out of her in a month or two, Buddha.)
Anyway, I had to go to this dude's house to pick it up. I told him over the phone I was interested, but I wouldn't commit to it until I played through it. When I got there he already had a guitar plugged into it for me to play. He had his head shaved and his eyebrow peirced with a spike stud through it. I said, hang on let me go get my mic, I don't need a guitar. He kinda had that look in his eyes like "Oh great, a harp player." (or maybe I was just paranoid and thought he did.)
I plugged the mic in and told him I had only been playing for a couple of years and not to expect to much. But I turned the amp up to about half and cranked my bullet mic all the way up and did a Jason Ricci style triplet minor pentatonic scale climbing riff and came halfway back down the scale and ended on a 4-5 draw and wailed on it for a minute.
He looked at me and said "Shit dude, I don't even wanna sell you the amp anymore. I wanna go learn to play harmonica." I really did try to hide the ear to ear grin.
Anyway, I f*&^%ing love this amp! We talked about how it just seemed to be made for the harp. He said he had never heard it sound so good when he played guitar through it. Again, I'm don't know a whole lot about amps and stuff so some of the stuff he was talking about was way over my head, but basically he was impressed the way it sounded for a harp.
When I got it home I put my delay pedal on it, and it sounds fabulous. So chalk up one more fan of the Epiphone Valve JR.
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