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like brand new guitars. You go into any music
and it never got good. But the stuff that was
collection.
store, find a popular brand, they’ve got three
good, just got better. That gray Echoplex was
CG Do you still own your Echoplex EP-2?
of them hanging on the wall and you play all
one of the winners. Even though that’s a highly
three and go, “This is the good one”. Vintage
manufactured product; it’s not something you’d
JS That thing is held together by love at this
gear is the same way, I don’t know what the hit
consider hand crafted. But that thing always
point - and some mojo. I remember being in the
or miss number is, but let’s say it’s one in ten
has a tone.
studio with John and we wanted to get some
items is the thing when it comes to something
really crazy tape echo magic. We sent the
where human hands did most of the fashioning
CG A friend of mine picked up a bunch of
already-recorded guitar part back out into this
of it - that’s electric and acoustic guitars. That
vintage gear you’ve sold through Bananas At
Echoplex so I could manually work it. We had
means that most of the old stuff is simply old
Large in Marin County. How do you decide it’s
time to let something go?
this old tape that was wonderfully saturated
with thousands of hours of guitar playing. It
was the coolest sound of effects you could
ever imagine, it just sounded so beautiful.
There isn’t a plug-in or digital effect that
would ever be as complex or wonderful. It
always puts a smile on my face when I hear
that part of the song.
Sometimes the vintage stuff is just old, and
other times it has the secret sauce flowing
in it. With old vintage stuff, it’s very much
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When you’re selling gear, you
have to remember you just can’t
keep everything. If you’re not
using it – if it’s not a tool that
resonates with you then you
should just move it on cause
someone else could really
enjoy it.
May June 2016
JS Their clientele is very intelligent, they
understand that these tools formerly used
by professionals show up from time to
time and they’ve got scars - they’ve been
through some Rock ‘n Roll battles. For me,
it’s like a tool I don’t want to use any more.
But for somebody else, it’s exactly what
they’ve been waiting for. When I pick up a
used guitar or something like that, I always
think, “Why is someone selling it”? You
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