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Topic: Rumble Seat Music Promotional Video

A 6 minute promotional video (by LMA Film & Video) for Eliot Michael's Rumble Seat Music has been posted on Tube today (8/17/15). 

Features Slow Train as background music.  Eliot briefly mentions his relationship with Joe ... and clips of Joe ... and Mike Hickey ... are featured in the video ...

https://youtu.be/Arriun8frGc

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Re: Rumble Seat Music Promotional Video

I know nothing about amps but if Marshall's 1969 stack is the best sounding amp ever made, why isn't Marshall still building them exactly as they did in 1969? Seems to me that they found the formula, why not keep building em....Also, it amazes me that with all the new technology, no one has created a better amp....

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Re: Rumble Seat Music Promotional Video

Is Rumble Seat the store where they even let anyone that walks in try out a '59 burst plugged in?

I seem to remember a story or two by other members here who said they walked in there and asked to play it and were allowed to without hesitation?  If so, kudos for stores like these who let people PLAY the guitars rather than hide them away.

Reminds me of my visit to Emerald City guitars in Seattle many years ago on our US holiday.  My sons were quite young back then (8 and 4 I think), and they were walking in and around all these expensive guitars on floor stands and the guys there just didn't bat an eyelid.  Made me vow that when I made millions and wanted a vintage guitar I would go back to Emerald City Guitars to buy it! big_smile  (and possibly to Rumble Seat too, if the guys there are cool the same way...)

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Re: Rumble Seat Music Promotional Video

pat6put6man wrote:

I know nothing about amps but if Marshall's 1969 stack is the best sounding amp ever made, why isn't Marshall still building them exactly as they did in 1969? Seems to me that they found the formula, why not keep building em....Also, it amazes me that with all the new technology, no one has created a better amp....

There are a few reasons to prevent exact reproduction of something. Some of them off the top of my head:

  • Suppliers can go out of business, and replacements aren't exact

  • product safety regulations: the jubilee reissues don't have the same impedance selectors as on the originals for that reason, and they accomplished multiple impedances with separate plugs. (though I heard that in a youtube video of the designer, I see that the 1959HW does have rotary impedance selectors. So who knows. Maybe those selectors are costly.)

  • requirements change: No one really needs a 100W full stack any more, since current practice is to mic the amp and play it through the PA. Fortunately not needing one doesn't preclude people from buying one anyway. :-)

  • I've read that standard voltages in the US are higher than they were previously. Currently they are nominal 120VAC, +/- 5%, but at different times were slightly lower, with 110, 115, and 117VAC cited.

  • Cost: They do sell hardwired amps, although at a cost premium, when comparing amps with similar features.

Having said all that, they do build pretty much that same amp, subject to the above constraints and probably a bunch more I haven't thought of. The 1959HW is a 100W handwired non-master volume plexi: https://marshallamps.com/products/ampli … es/1959hw/

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Re: Rumble Seat Music Promotional Video

Devan wrote:

Reminds me of my visit to Emerald City guitars in Seattle many years ago on our US holiday.  My sons were quite young back then (8 and 4 I think), and they were walking in and around all these expensive guitars on floor stands and the guys there just didn't bat an eyelid.  Made me vow that when I made millions and wanted a vintage guitar I would go back to Emerald City Guitars to buy it! big_smile  (and possibly to Rumble Seat too, if the guys there are cool the same way...)

I just visited there last week. They didn't have as much vintage stuff as I expected, but they were super friendly. There was a section of guitars behind a "please ask" rope, but I wasn't there to try anything so I didn't.

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Re: Rumble Seat Music Promotional Video

timb wrote:
pat6put6man wrote:

I know nothing about amps but if Marshall's 1969 stack is the best sounding amp ever made, why isn't Marshall still building them exactly as they did in 1969? Seems to me that they found the formula, why not keep building em....Also, it amazes me that with all the new technology, no one has created a better amp....

There are a few reasons to prevent exact reproduction of something. Some of them off the top of my head:

  • Suppliers can go out of business, and replacements aren't exact

  • product safety regulations: the jubilee reissues don't have the same impedance selectors as on the originals for that reason, and they accomplished multiple impedances with separate plugs. (though I heard that in a youtube video of the designer, I see that the 1959HW does have rotary impedance selectors. So who knows. Maybe those selectors are costly.)

  • requirements change: No one really needs a 100W full stack any more, since current practice is to mic the amp and play it through the PA. Fortunately not needing one doesn't preclude people from buying one anyway. :-)

  • I've read that standard voltages in the US are higher than they were previously. Currently they are nominal 120VAC, +/- 5%, but at different times were slightly lower, with 110, 115, and 117VAC cited.

  • Cost: They do sell hardwired amps, although at a cost premium, when comparing amps with similar features.

Having said all that, they do build pretty much that same amp, subject to the above constraints and probably a bunch more I haven't thought of. The 1959HW is a 100W handwired non-master volume plexi: https://marshallamps.com/products/ampli … es/1959hw/

Many valid points.
Impedance rotary deck type switches are very costly as is point to point wiring. Hand labor is always more expensive and not capable of volume production at a price point. That's why small boutique builders can stay alive. There's a market, though small, that supports quality builds.

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