Vic Juris Playing Through Red Plate Amp

[NickC]

Whilst checking out this thread:

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.php?t=21514

....... I found this YouTube link on the same YouTube page:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgg16RNiuw

........ and was throughly delighted to see my former guitar teacher Vic Juris playing through a Red Plate amp along with Chuck D'Aloia at the 2013 NY Amp show. Gorgeous amp tone and splendid performance for those with an ear for fine jazz playing!

[stelligan]

If Vic taught you, you must cut head!!

I am proud of being responsible for getting Chuck and Henry together for these amps. They are killer small form factor, full featured amps. Henry has always leaned toward what I call "crammage". Fitting very much into a small package - as evidenced here: https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.php?t=3068


Here is another view of that same performance where you can peep teach's fingers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... KnUHHT4HTQ

[NickC]

If Vic taught you, you must cut head!!

I am proud of being responsible for getting Chuck and Henry together for these amps. They are killer small form factor, full featured amps. Henry has always leaned toward what I call "crammage". Fitting very much into a small package - as evidenced here: https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.php?t=3068


Here is another view of that same performance where you can peep teach's fingers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... KnUHHT4HTQ

Thanks! That camera angle is perfect.

Vic is two years older than me. He was 21 when I took lessons from him at Muzzy Missoni's drum shop in Denville, NJ. Even at 21, Vic was playing as well as he plays in that YouTube vid. He was a fantastic teacher in every respect. But I was not a great student. One week I had not practiced my lesson enough. When I showed up and fumbled through it, I made some idiotic lame excuse that my guitar was causing me to mess up. Naturally the guitar, a '73 SG, was not the problem. Vic quietly reached up and took down a ratty looking acoustic hung from a hook on a overhead water-pipe. The thing had action about an inch high, and the strings looked like lengths of barbed wire. He tuned it up and played it, making it look effortless, making it sound like a D'Angelico. Put me right in my place without an iota of making me feel chastised. He just laid the Truth out there, and I never, ever again blamed my equipment for my failings. If he'd taught me nothing else about life than that, it was a great blessing. But he taught me much more, and I am forever in his debt.

[ampmike]

Nick,I grew up in parsippany around the same time as you,I went to Pat Circelo another Berkeley dude.Vic was the king,I believe he lived up off of Parsippany road.There was my teacher Jack Pariso and of coarse Ed Berg.Hey do you remember Mark Durgett.?.Wow I went to Morris Cath in Denvill as well.We had to have crossed paths,thanks Mikey

[NickC]

Nick,I grew up in parsippany around the same time as you,I went to Pat Circelo another Berkeley dude.Vic was the king,I believe he lived up off of Parsippany road.There was my teacher Jack Pariso and of coarse Ed Berg.Hey do you remember Mark Durgett.?.Wow I went to Morris Cath in Denvill as well.We had to have crossed paths,thanks Mikey

I used to work as an instructor at the Denville Residential Center, for New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services. Studied sociology at County College of Morris (Randolph/Dover), and later at Rutgers. Lived in Sparta/Lake Mohawk from 1972 till mid-1978. Also used to work for Channel Home Center in Dover while at CCM.

I had lessons from Vic for about a year. Lessons were at Muzzy's drum shop in the center of Denville, right around the corner from the residential center where I worked until the state shut it down. It was an hour drive for me from there to get home. When the gas crisis hit I was working at Channel doing retail (i.e. long hours at low pay). It was always a hassle negotiating a night off for my lesson, and then work hours were cut, and I couldn't afford to continue lessons. Bad times.

Indeed, we may have crossed paths back then. I don't recall the names you mentioned ...... but it's been nearly 40 years and you know how it is ...... I can't remember what I remember anymore. However, I DO remember some of my favorite record stores were around the Parsippany area, and I used to haunt those places. I remember one night in particular. After spending all I could on vinyl, a record-hound buddy and I were driving back towards Dover listening to WNEW. A new single by 10cc had been released to radio stations that day, and the DJ played it over and over ..... must have been five or six plays back-to-back. That was "I'm Not In Love". Great record.

[ampmike]

Hey Nick,I remember channel lumber and I lived in Dover from 1980 to 84'i got out of high school in 79 and tried CCM but didn't make it.So yea we are going back 40 years for me too.Pat was friends with Vic he went to Berkeley and he has passed already.Mark Durgett was the guy who could play all the leads for anything a week after the album came out.He had a band later called Tradia.We grew up in a cool time,delivering newspapers,shoveling driveways,taking off on our bikes for miles.And maybe partying a bit too much too focus on school.But we sure had the greatest music in the 70"s,rightNick!!Ill pm you,Mikey