M Fowler wrote:At a cost of $2800 each Eric could have built 5.6 amps the cost of all components and head cab per amp.
Take a simple cheap amp and put it into the hands guitarist that don't know value and presto they open their wallet.
Almost seems comical but so sad so many are so stupid to believe this terrible sounding amp is only possible through the building hands of one said Eric.
Statements like no one can build amp as good is the real insult here.
Hear, hear ! (applause from all TAGsters)
The cheese was great!
Famunda cheese? Or maybe that Sardinian specialty casu frazigu, "fizzy" cheese. It moves on it's own. Don't look too close. Not available in your cheese store, don't bother looking.
Oh I don't know 'bout that. Look up the other I mentioned. Described as having a strong ammonia "flavor" that takes hours to fade. Even with a lot of tasty local vino rosso. I'll stick with the wine only thanks. Fun reading. Don't be eating. indeed!
Let's just say, if you used it to make a cheeseburger, the cheese might eat the burger before you get a chance to.
doctahtizzle wrote:the lockard amp is $2800 because the cost is over $2000. it's clearly a labor of love, and an expensive one. it's hand made USA labor, and it's top notch construction by an insanely high end amp builder.
the amp was created in very low numbers and wasn't intended to be
a money maker, it was designed for high end recordings.
matt sorum also has a lockard 187 prominently displayed quite often in photos of his world class studio. the 187's been used in high end studios on glen campbell, doobie brothers, and heavy metal, everything in between. nothing like a champ really, which is an amp i surely love. the 32ohm was a happy accident, it just sounds better that way.
this amp is quite a monster, y'all sound like a bunch of cry babies, and none of y'all would be saying any of this to eric's face, that's for damn sure.
it's a loud as hell class A 8W, it will chew & spit out a champ
w/out trying. nothing out there sounds like the lockard, which
is why it was released. all amps have their applications.
the lockard 187 surely has it's place. it's not for everyone. it's a very articulate, intense tone. i was with steve stevens one night when he tried it out, it was "too much gain" for him, but he certainly acknowledged the quality of the tone. there were a couple 187's at el dorado for the jane's addiction record and didn't get used because of a combination of technical problems and "too much low end". one man's "too much low end" is another man's holy grail tone. dave likes his JCM900 for damn sure. i'm pretty sure billy duffy has also had some fun with it. this amp delivers a very thick, vintage tone. not like a bassman, not like a marshall. maybe more like a supro/valco on crack more than anything.
i owned one for several years and ultimately traded it out to a studio, because that's where it belongs, and i was liquidating a lot of gear. it's one of the few pieces of gear i've sold in my life, out of hundreds, that i can say i regret not having around.
how come you dint tell me how good the cheese was?
Leo_Gnardo wrote:Also nice to have "I was in a band with Neil Young" in the resume'. Strange but true.
Puttin' the "crazy" in Crazy Horse?
Before then even. Rick & Neil had a band in Canada around 1963. Gonna have to look it up. Neil mentioned it in an interview on "Fresh Air" WHYY about 2 years ago. Probably available on radio station's archive. It was a fascinating interview covering Neil's new work at the time, strange Crazy Horse versions of songs we generally regard as folk & children's songs, plus deep in the past NY history. Whole new take on "She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain When She Comes" turns it into a warning of Revelations style apocalypse. And we thought it was just a kid's song...
KellyBass wrote:If I'm not mistaken, Rick was in Canada...in the sixties...on some sort of US military related activity.
Being AWOL from the Navy, apparently.
HAAA-HAH! That bad boy! Good researching matt h! Rescued by Levon and Garth too, what a heck of a thing. So it was 66 when that particular peculiar musical collision happened. As they say "the rest is history." At least Rick didn't get his dreads stuck in any Navy machinery. That could'a hurt. If they needed a spare rope though, could have come in handy.
