SMITHSONIAN INTERVIEW

[grockr1]

http://www.guitarworld.com/eddie-van-ha ... nian-video don know how long it will last.

[mr.twistyneck]

Here it is on Youtube.

Skip to 20:00 for the good stuff on the Variac. 60volts at Gazzaris gigs! 89volt recording sweet spot! lots of really
great stuff here!

[Star*Guitar]

Lol You beat me to it. the specifics start at 22:25 to 23:03. This confirms all the variac posts. THIS IS BIG!!

[Star*Guitar]

It's interesting he had two Marshalls to start out with. I wonder which one was 12301? It's just like you guys say. How extra long it takes to warm up an amp on low voltage.

[Strat78]

Don't forget that we figured it out here a couple years ago. Rob was the first!
http://forum.metroamp.com/viewtopic.php ... 97#p419897

[Star*Guitar]

Agreed.... I messed with this quite a few years ago but didnt like the tone much under 90 volts. So I went in other directions. I also ate up all the B.S. about cathode stripping. Who cares if it does..just change the tubes when they don't sound good. Well with Sylvania 's that can be expensive lol. But when I think of all the money I've wasted over the years chasing that tone, it could of easily covered it.

[dirtycooter]

Yep

And now the big question

why am I/ are we so fuckin stupid!

Brown Sound= "BROWN OUT" CONDITIONS!!!! OH THATS WTF IT MEANS!?!? ALL THESE YEARS ED HAS CALLED IT THE BROWN SOUND AS A BLATENT FACT AND JOKE!!!

HA HA FUNNY ED You f'n got me good on that one!


I think after seeing and hearing mine at 70volts I don't think he re-amped now after all this. It was pro ably just jacked up loud when it was in arenas and for recording only. Thats how he melded with that amp so exquisitly-it was his practice amp late at night and his big gig amp sound amp....

[beaulieu]

I put my 2554 combo on 220 volts and although its quieter is not as quiet as Ed said that 2nd amp was. I wonder why?

[EJSLPlexi]

Looks a lot like this guy now!

All kidding aside was he really responsible for tab? that is Huge if it is true!

[Blix]

Looks a lot like this guy now!

All kidding aside was he really responsible for tab? that is Huge if it is true!

Lol no, they didn't invent tabs because of Eddie. Tabs are actually hundreds of years old.

[dirtycooter]

Not neccassarily was so much just TAB he was referring to-it was the notation and symbols like using T and H and stuff like that for Tapped and Hammer ons etc etc. Bar dives too I think. So there is some legitimacy to what he said it just wasn't in depth explained fully what he meant. But they had to come up with explanations for the technique he used when he tapped, used tap harmonics, artificial harmonic, wammy blurbs and dive bombs, all that stuff needed notations when he showed up.

[awangotango]

we've heard all these questions many times. the talk was more to fuel the idea that immagrants can come here and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and then buy a lambourghini. that may have been true many years ago just like it may have been possible to become a rock star. neither are likely today and ed is out of touch on both counts

[echoplexi1974]

So the second head he bought through the recycler must have been the 12301. If that amp was the house amp at the Pasadena Civic why was it set to 220V? Maybe someone pulled it out and mistakenly plugged it into the 220V tap? Just to screw with the new owner?

[JiMB]

Finally watched this, Eddie seems to be in a really good place now with his life.

[Scumback Speakers]

This was interesting to watch. I guess variac sales are going to take a huge leap on eBay now, right?