I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.
I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
I don't really collect guitars.
I've always played every amp I've ever had full up, because rock and roll is supposed to be played loud. Also, that's how you get your sustain.
I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.