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Post by mtm105 on Apr 24, 2014 11:10:09 GMT -7
Knowing Fishcer's TRAINWRECK is a classic and very, very rare, what songs have been played through it with certainty.
Ken sorta bragged that it was virtually every other song on MTV. Don't quote me on that. At all. I might have read that somewhere.
I've read Tina Turner and Tommy TuTone 867-5309. Also Adam's Cuts Like a Knife, which may very well be false. Or one appeared in the backround on a video with Kirk Hammet.
The Amp changed the musical landscape, no doubt.
But, I have trouble finding solid evidence of it's production.
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Post by bryan0418 on Apr 24, 2014 11:15:36 GMT -7
Cuts like a knife was 1983. That would have been one of the first amps Ken made, right?
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Post by bluzman on Apr 24, 2014 11:43:21 GMT -7
In an amp book by David Hunter, I remember reading a section with an interview with Ken Fischer. Ken said something like he didn't count the amps but kept a list of the names... he went onto say that there were maybe 100 out there.
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Post by Mark (Basement Enthusiast) on Apr 24, 2014 11:53:16 GMT -7
Might want to check the thread below (sorry for sending y'all outside the Z-Talk world): www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=1183637The comments made here by bryan0418 and bluzman seem to correlate with a lot of what's stated in the TGP discussion thread.
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Apr 24, 2014 13:16:43 GMT -7
from Mark's gearpage link:
"I emailed Keith Scott (Bryan Adams) a few years ago regarding the Trainwreck and he said he never used one or even saw one in a studio. The infamous "Cuts Like A Knife" solo was a rented Marshall and he seemed to remember using a DOD yellow OD and his '70's Strat. "
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Post by BritInvasion on Apr 24, 2014 13:48:56 GMT -7
Jenny (867-5309) Tommy Tutone : Fenders , Music Man and Marshall :
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Post by mtm105 on Apr 24, 2014 15:52:21 GMT -7
I'm diggin' the bassist's jump suit. lol
true dat. No TRAINWRECK there. Doesn't mean that it wasn't used in the studio, though, if it were in fact considered a marquee Amp at the time. But not so much.
Finding a tune recorded with a TRAINWRECK is almost as elusive as the Amp itself, it seems.
yeah, I got a lot of my info from TGP prior to. (I got a 2 week ban because I unwittingly posted politics)
1994 I was a guitarist for a short-lived NJ band and we performed 4 vids on local cable TV out of Dunellen, NJ which got played several times. Sorta like a Wayne's World, maybe same timeframe Wayne's World becoming popular, lol. The guest VJ was an older coked up Rocker dude. Does anyone recall the show?? I was fresh out of college and couldn't afford cable TV.
It was likely same channel as the Ken Fisher video, below.
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Post by bryan0418 on Apr 24, 2014 20:30:06 GMT -7
If you want to hear a whole pile of Trainwreck "Amp Porn" for your ears, check out Glen Kuykendall's album and Youtube videos. He has a couple of Trainwreck amps I believe and a 59 Les Paul and older Strat as well. Great guitar playing and tone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2014 20:36:58 GMT -7
If I remember correctly, the Warren Haynes Band album that came out a couple of years ago consisted of Warren playing an ES-335 plugged into a Trainwreck pushing a Marshall 4x12 cab (with an Emma Discombobulator here and there).
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Post by bubs42 on Apr 25, 2014 8:39:02 GMT -7
Nope, Warren used the Diaz 100, he uses it for just about everything. Suppliment Soldanos, PRS, Marshalls for added color, but his main tone is that Diaz.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 12:12:22 GMT -7
Nope, Warren used the Diaz 100, he uses it for just about everything. Suppliment Soldanos, PRS, Marshalls for added color, but his main tone is that Diaz. Live yes, but he used a Trainwreck, tweed Deluxe, and Pro Junior in the studio for the Warren Haynes Band album. Good album, but I prefer the tone of the Soldano and Diaz on the Gov't Mule material.
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Post by bubs42 on Apr 25, 2014 16:18:57 GMT -7
I looked it up and stand corrected.
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Post by mtm105 on Apr 25, 2014 16:28:49 GMT -7
I have logically deducted with KeithA from another thread, that the studio rendition could very well likely be a TRAINWRECK.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2014 10:25:56 GMT -7
Buddy of mine had a very popular radio show in NYC/NJ on WFMU. He told me of a guy he knew in Jersey who built hand made amps and that they were in the Vox style. The guy offered to build me one. At the time I was in a band that was signed to a major label and doing a lot of touring, mostly clubs on our own and opening for big bands too. I saw the guy's amp and I couldn't wrap my head around it. It was a head with a fancy hardwood box and it didn't even have a handle on it? It looked super fragile and after having trouble with some customized amps on the road I had gone back to using stock stuff so could get the amps either fixed or replaced easier.
Long story short, I turned down the opportunity to get a Trainwreck. Don't worry, I'm still kicking myself about it to this day.
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Post by Dannydny on Apr 30, 2014 11:49:04 GMT -7
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2014 15:01:26 GMT -7
I would never spend a dime in Ultrasound and wouldn't send my worst enemy there to buy an amp:)
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Post by John on May 1, 2014 5:29:41 GMT -7
I would never spend a dime in Ultrasound and wouldn't send my worst enemy there to buy an amp:) How do you really feel?
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 6:18:35 GMT -7
9 Million people in NYC and no Z dealer (cause Ultrasound doesn't count)
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Post by Dannydny on May 1, 2014 10:40:07 GMT -7
9 Million people in NYC and no Z dealer (cause Ultrasound doesn't count) I only been there a few times. I'll take your word for it though!
Maybe Cowboy Tech can be a "Z" dealer. I'm surprised there is no shop in Williamsburg!
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Post by JoeMo' on Jun 10, 2014 21:49:18 GMT -7
Matt O'ree Plays em. He is pretty much a bad A$$ if you've never heard him.
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Post by Pete aka shouldb on Jun 11, 2014 0:02:49 GMT -7
I much prefer the Express in those clips, especially when driven harder. Doesn't Joe B play a Trainwreck as part of his rig? Maybe I'm mistaken..........
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