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Gretting from Houston, TX

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Hello, new guy from Houston, TX. Been playing for about 30+ years and gigging for around 25. Played in an original band for 21 years and got to open for some cool national acts along the way but now I play an Ozzy tribute and I'm having a blast doing it. Get to do some cool festival gigs and House of Blues shows. Got about 20 guitars and a couple of 5153 halfstacks are my main glass of choice. I've currently gone to the digital darkside with Fractal, Kemper and the Atomic Amplifier. At the moment gigging with the AX8 direct and my lower back loves me again. I love talking about gear and look forward to being apart of the GAB community.
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Welcome to GAB bishop!

Sounds like you'll fit in here just fine, once you post some pics of that collection. :lol:
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Welcome, sir! You'll find plenty of tube amp folks here as well as people who rock the ol' ones and zeroes. There are a couple of us from H-town here, probably a dozen from Austin...and one asshole from Dallas. :hi5:
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welcome... I"m gonna be in Houston in November so if you have any awesome places to check for gear let me know...


also, you can't come here and say you have 20+ guitars and NOT post some pics sooo...

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Welcome to the fold brother- this is the best guitar/amp forum on the interwebznet!!!

We need a few more old dogs to round out the forum. :rawk:
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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:rawk: Welcome Dude!!! :rawk:
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Welcome to GAB man!


I've got a couple buddies who live in Houston that are phenomenal guitarists
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Good seeing you here, Todd! I thought the username and locale looked familiar :D Hopefully the Atomic is treating you well :rawk: GAB is the best :party:
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Guess I should put up a few pics.
Need to update this family photo. Sold a few and bought a few since I took it. The Wolfgang and Ivory RR Jackson are gone and have been replaced with a newer RR Jackson with a gold Floyd, a David Gilmour black replica Strat and a blacked out gothic Epiphone SG. Also a pic of the guitars I use in my Ozzy tribute.
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There's a shot of my wet/dry/wet setup with black G-System, Kemper and Axe-Fx setup at home and the AX8 and XiTone wedges I'm currently using to gig with.
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A room full of shredders, an SG, Strat and a couple of LP's.... AWESOME!!! :rawk:

Edit: And not one, but THREE EVH heads with matching cabs! Major wood!
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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JiveTurkey wrote:Good seeing you here, Todd! I thought the username and locale looked familiar :D Hopefully the Atomic is treating you well :rawk: GAB is the best :party:

Hey brother, good to see you here as well. Diggin the Atomic. Such a cool little unit. Gonna be the perfect emergency back. But hope I never need it. :lol:
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bishop5150 wrote:
JiveTurkey wrote:Good seeing you here, Todd! I thought the username and locale looked familiar :D Hopefully the Atomic is treating you well :rawk: GAB is the best :party:

Hey brother, good to see you here as well. Diggin the Atomic. Such a cool little unit. Gonna be the perfect emergency back. But hope I never need it. :lol:

:hi5:
It looks like you have a few options at your disposal if anything were to happen :whistle: :lol:
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:welcome:

Love the guitar family - all the requisite RRs covered. Awesome cream-colored custom :love: and the Jackson RRs, too :thu:
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ajaxlepinski wrote:A room full of shredders, an SG, Strat and a couple of LP's.... AWESOME!!! :rawk:

Edit: And not one, but THREE EVH heads with matching cabs! Major wood!

Ya, as you can tell by the guitars I'm most definitely a child of the 80's. :beavis:
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Amps are collecting dust now. I've got the AX8 running direct to FOH sounding just like the halfstacks mic'ed up going through the PA. So for now anyway the amps collect dust. It's just to easy with the AX8. With the XiTone wedges in stereo as my backline, one behind me cranked and the other behind my bass player on the other side of the stage I still get that amp/cab feel behind me onstage. I had lower back surgery about 2 years ago. 25 years of loading in and out 4x12 cab's finally caught up with me I guess. Hopefully this setup can let me have a few more years of fun.
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Welcome to GAB man....if you're the guy I think you are from another forum, throw up those Ozzy gig vids using the AX8, cause those things rule.
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Steinmetzify wrote:Welcome to GAB man....if you're the guy I think you are from another forum, throw up those Ozzy gig vids using the AX8, cause those things rule.

Yep, that's me. Finally made it over here. Where should I post them at? On this thread?
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Nah I'd start a new thread in the main forum.
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Sounds like the vids will start a discussion about your AX8 and stage gear so, you should post them in "Amps, Guitars & Gear".

If you want to start a discussion about your music, Ozzy and Black Sabbath, post the vids in "Music"
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Walt wrote:But when the hour is nigh, and the lights are low, and I got a little toothpick of a shwag joint in my teeth, and my friends want to hear me play "Into the Void", or "TNT", "or "Cemetery Gates"...I plug my 600 dollar guitar into my 150 dollar amp, and I am a Rawk gawd.
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Either way, lets get the gawddam vids posted... :|

Ozzy / Sabbath FTW :drool: :D
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  • CEOwLP (Sig T), Carvin DC135, Westone Spectrum SX (guitar) & GT (bass), Squier strat
  • '66 Bassman, '61 Magnatone, Mark III, 1960AX, homebrew 2x12 (C90 / EVM12L Thiele), HX Stomp, JCA50H
  • PLX GABion, SD-1, TS9, Crybaby, MXR108, Algal clone, Carbon Copy deluxe

DIY

Ostinato Rubato wrote:"That's the second boomery bro on this forum I've helped seduce to the greenside." :evil:

"Slow and steady gets to **** again eventually" :fap:
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