Just saw Maiden last week. Honestly it sucked. The first two Maiden albums were total metal benchmarks, thought they jumped their own shark post Piece of Mind. The DiAnno era is my favorite. Rest easy Wrathchild.
The purple one is actually purple metal flake on purple w purple candy haha....learned a lesson there, too much purple and no pop. I’m going to re-shoot that one soon. The unfinished P90 mutt is actually root beer brown, I figured out the process on that one ?
Curt - I've got them in alder, swamp ash, and pine.... Pine is actually my favorite of the group
Also have a mahogany P90 wraptail mutt that should be done soon that I think will be a good one....
You need to give the Lollar J Street bridge a go. Its all out in the P90 camp but still has that Tele thing. My purple mutt has that in the bridge and a TV Jones something or other in the neck, I've played everything from straight clean > funk > Iron Maiden with it.
Zachman is still in Hawaii, still hoarding rack gear and close buddies of Braddah Pat aka @mentoneman Both those guys were OG Hawaii metalheads back with Marty Friedman and Mark Kaleiwahea of Sacred Rite. Check this clip of Kaleiwahea absolutely nailing some VH (Mark has 15 subscribers haha )
Ya know I don't see Fat Mike pulling any reunion tour bullshit. Seems like they're serious about hanging it up. The three day send off was pretty epic.
Also amazing how killer the clean tones are with just the guitar volume rolled back when its setup like this. Besides my regular rock band gig I use this same setup in a funk / dance oriented gig weekly and all my spanky clean tones are found this way. Amp also responds far better to touch like...
Not really a fair fight. Easily has the grunt of the JCM and is better sounding all the way around. Mind boggling as we’re talking a 25 watt head vs a 100 watt head. The MC25 easily has the sonic footprint of the JCM. Right here is where the “yeah well the 100 watt head has way more bottom...