20 years ago in 1987 i did a tour of Europe and the UK with Agent Steel as their touring lead guitarist (pressured into wearing an orange jumper suit at the headlining Hammy-O show... Andy is always joking with me about this and threatening to put up pics from the show, lol 
uke
... i was just a baby really.... too young to run off that far from home, much less dragging along my prized Marshall JCM 800 Lead Series Head with no travel insurance... just my name written across the back metal protector/vent grill in black Magic Marker....
fast forward to 2007 and i'm killing myself over getting a nice vintage lead tone for the brand new Blood Promise 4-song label demo i'm working on... this one has to kill.... and i don't want to use either of the amps i used for the rhythm tracks (6505+ and Cobra) since i like to stack tones, or the Krankenstein... none of them are very "vintage" sounding anyway... at least not in the way i mean. think "Schenker/UFO". Sadly, my Pitbull needs service at the moment.
well i decided to call up my buddy that i sold that amp to back when he was 17... he's 37 now and amazingly enough, he still lives at the exact same address and still had the amp (and the 1960-A cab) that i sold him at the end of '87 after returning from that tour and deciding to move to Atlanta. it was still sitting in pretty much the same spot in his room and looked just as cherry as the day i sold it to him, save for a bit of dust as it had been a few months since he had last cleaned it. he'd had it serviced/re-tubed once or twice over the years and was still using it. Shit, even my name was still on the back in black Magic Marker.
So...now i have it again and have just finished re-amping the solos for the this new Blood Promise session... here's a pic of it, in the "stack-'o-amps" with the rest of my current collection:
i actually decided to see if any of Schenker's settings for this amp were posted online anywhere to use as starting points and right away found a pic taken of the front of Michael's own JCM 800 right before a UFO show in 2000, and i thought i'd share... see below:
i did not go with these exact settings in the end.. close though, and i added a ts-9 with a moderate gain setting. i'm happy with the results... which you will get to hear soon.
uke... i was just a baby really.... too young to run off that far from home, much less dragging along my prized Marshall JCM 800 Lead Series Head with no travel insurance... just my name written across the back metal protector/vent grill in black Magic Marker.... fast forward to 2007 and i'm killing myself over getting a nice vintage lead tone for the brand new Blood Promise 4-song label demo i'm working on... this one has to kill.... and i don't want to use either of the amps i used for the rhythm tracks (6505+ and Cobra) since i like to stack tones, or the Krankenstein... none of them are very "vintage" sounding anyway... at least not in the way i mean. think "Schenker/UFO". Sadly, my Pitbull needs service at the moment.
well i decided to call up my buddy that i sold that amp to back when he was 17... he's 37 now and amazingly enough, he still lives at the exact same address and still had the amp (and the 1960-A cab) that i sold him at the end of '87 after returning from that tour and deciding to move to Atlanta. it was still sitting in pretty much the same spot in his room and looked just as cherry as the day i sold it to him, save for a bit of dust as it had been a few months since he had last cleaned it. he'd had it serviced/re-tubed once or twice over the years and was still using it. Shit, even my name was still on the back in black Magic Marker.
So...now i have it again and have just finished re-amping the solos for the this new Blood Promise session... here's a pic of it, in the "stack-'o-amps" with the rest of my current collection:
i actually decided to see if any of Schenker's settings for this amp were posted online anywhere to use as starting points and right away found a pic taken of the front of Michael's own JCM 800 right before a UFO show in 2000, and i thought i'd share... see below:
i did not go with these exact settings in the end.. close though, and i added a ts-9 with a moderate gain setting. i'm happy with the results... which you will get to hear soon.
