New Blog Post..The early years

[Dr.Strangenote]

Thanks for sharing that bit of Music Man history, Sterling. Looking forward to seeing what's next down the line of your amps! Congrats my friend.

 

[kestrou]

I saw Johnny Winter about six months ago - he's still using his Music Man amps!

kestrou

 

[banjoplayer]

great post and awesome news. Thanx for that

 

[agt]

Great read. Eager to check out the amps. Thanks for sharing, BP!!!

 

[guitarp77]

Love reading these!

 

[Tanax]

Cool, never knew MM had amps. Very interested in checking them out!

 

[DrKev]

I'm looking forward to seeing the amp designs. What will they come up with? Will particular artists be launching it? Who might they be? Exciting!

 

[Mick]

History channel of the web!
Thanks for the insight

 

[Tollywood]

Very interesting development. Thanks for sharing and I wish you the best of luck.

 

[Spudmurphy]

I've printed your blog and put it inside my "Musicman Book"
Music Man 1978-1982 and Then Some : The Other Side of the Story: Amazon.co.uk: Frank W. M. Green: Books
- which I know you have previously stated is not a true reflection of the era. At least the print out will go someway to addressing the issue, well at least until you write your autobiography.

I too have a couple of Musicman amps and love them - it will be interesting to see what the future holds.
Good luck in this venture.

 

[Big Poppa]

yeah Frank green was a very small retailer that got the gig in accessories at music man....that book bothers me

 

[paranoid70]

Curious to see what develops. The old MM amps were very good clean amps. Quite rugged too, I know of folks who have had them for decades. But EB (and likely MarkBass as well) seems to be quite a forward thinking company, so I can't imagine the new line being simple reproductions of the early MM amps. Seems like quite a natural progression, I noticed at NAMM that several guitar builders are now dabbling in amps, PRS, Schecter, etc.

Best of luck EB and company. (Too bad I just ordered a new Marshall.)

 

[Big Poppa]

the guitar amps are faithful reproductions the bass amps are super current

 

[Warg Master]

Any plans for high gain amps?

 

[JayDawg]

This is very exciting news about the amps! Loved the blog too and hearing about the history. Makes me appreciate it even more.

 

[Big Poppa]

no there wil be a modern voiced pedal matched to the amp for gain

 

[dannymusic]

Nice write. For those of us that were from that time...coool

Yes., I remember knut koupee.

 

[streck]

Very nice writing. And also good news. Thumbs up.

 

[Eric O'Reilly]

Ive played through an old music man head, i think it was 60 watts? I always used a pedal for gain since it was a clean jangly type of amp, the new ones should look into the high gain market, maybe a new spin on it?

 

[Spudmurphy]

[tongue in cheek] and Speaking as a big MM amp fan/nerd... ... BP intimates that the guitar amp is gonna be an "as was" amp but with the facility for a dedicated pedal, as opposed to a switching pedal bringing in for example the 12ax7 tube as a distortion circuit.
My wish would be for EB to use the exact same grill cloth as the original guitar amp - very similar to the Fender grill cloth but as us "MM amp corksniffers know" - is different!
It's also impossible to source the exact same grill cloth for refurbs/repair. So - please BP use the same grill cloth as the original.

Also, it's well known on the MM amp side that people like Fuchs and Ed Goforth, have tweaked the amps further. For example Ed's tweaks to an RD50 112, has resulted in very Larry Carlson esq/Robben Ford/dare I say Dumble tones. Would be good to see those tweeks built in, because they have taken the amp to another level, and all contained in such a small package [/tongue in cheek]
Can't wait to try out one of these