I like to ask my 60 year old boss what it was like to drop the needle for the first time on this album when it came out. Hell, I was left slack-jawed when my 14 year old ears first heard it in 1985!

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Some serious vintage Marshall tone!

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I always loved this one:

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I've been meaning to check their stuff out. The first time I heard of them, I was playing in Sterling, MA and some guy gave me a Celestial Effects business card. They are based out of Hudson, MA, about an hour from here. It would be good to support the local guys. Anyway, I guy I jam with has that a...

Ritchie wrote:Heck I can remember too when the only "diet" soda was Tab and were either a chick or gay if you drank it, look how many diet soda's there are now!

Tab... Nasty stuff... I think I used to use it as paint stripper.

1971 here. Horror of horrors... My parents had the nerve to keep the household cleaners under the kitchen sink where they belonged. No child-proof latch. No "Mr Yuck" stickers. My mother felt her children weren't stupid enough to drink drain cleaner. When I was 11, I racked myself up pretty good in ...

I'm gassing hard for a JMP 2203/2204 and also a JMD (for my cover band).

66 galaxie wrote:This could be apples to oranges. I have been using a CP Mullard in one of my Class 5s. I like it.
Dont qoute me, but I think Martystrat54 over yonder likes the Tung Sols.

I have a RI Tung Sol in V1 of my 4104 and it sounds good. That is why I'm considering it.

They both have a mish-mosh of Sovtek, JJs and some sort of Marshall branded things that came with my Class 5. Just stuff I had lying around. The MP-2 originally had generic tubes with red lettering that just said "12AX7" on them. They sounded kind of muddy to my ears. The MP-1 had Sovteks in it when...

I have an ADA MP-1 & MP-2 and am looking for some preamp advice for them. I'm thinking of going with CP Mullard or Tung Sol.

Any suggestions?

Just saying hello now that I found my way over here.