Bone To Pick W/ Mr Peter Diezel

[johnotoole]

Dear Mr Peter Diezel

Every since buying my first guitar in 1967 at the tender age of 7 years old, I have had Chronic GAS. I have owned guitars too painful to contemplate having let go to bad trades to acquire more of same, and, of amplifiers, I've had a few (like that Vibrolux, or the Super Reverb I still cry about).

However, ever since my purchase of a pair of your so-called Einsteins in 2006, which then got morphed into a VH4 head and matching 412 Cab, I have a case of Arrested GAS (Acquisitionicum Nopointicus). Why buy an EVH 5150, so shiny, or a Fuch-ing Bogner, when there is simply no need?

Well, all I can say is I hope you are happy. Yes I can still spend my mortgage money on guitars, but what else is new? I dont even need vintage amps to get that "exclusive" vintage clean sound. I lug this VH4 to small clubs, as why wouldn't I? Ostentatious? No, practical. And also a Bit Smug.

I've heard about you Germans, but this goes too far. I am Getting Bloated, Mr Diezel. There is no escape, now, for my GAS.

Hmmmph,
John OToole

 

[Duolos]

Dear Mr Peter Diezel

Every since buying my first guitar in 1967 at the tender age of 7 years old, I have had Chronic GAS. I have owned guitars too painful to contemplate having let go to bad trades to acquire more of same, and, of amplifiers, I've had a few (like that Vibrolux, or the Super Reverb I still cry about).

However, ever since my purchase of a pair of your so-called Einsteins in 2006, which then got morphed into a VH4 head and matching 412 Cab, I have a case of Arrested GAS (Acquisitionicum Nopointicus). Why buy an EVH 5150, so shiny, or a Fuch-ing Bogner, when there is simply no need?

Well, all I can say is I hope you are happy. Yes I can still spend my mortgage money on guitars, but what else is new? I dont even need vintage amps to get that "exclusive" vintage clean sound. I lug this VH4 to small clubs, as why wouldn't I? Ostentatious? No, practical. And also a Bit Smug.

I've heard about you Germans, but this goes too far. I am Getting Bloated, Mr Diezel. There is no escape, now, for my GAS.

Hmmmph,
John OToole

Admitting your problems and being able to communicate them is the first step to getting help and healing....

 

[wolfeman28]

Did you start the 12 step recovery process yet?

 

[johnotoole]

1. I admitted I was powerless over this amp - that my tone had become manageable.
2. I came to believe that a Power Transformer greater than the others could restore me to insanity
3) I made a decision to turn my will and life over to the care of Peter Diezel as I understood Him
4) I made a searching and fearless moral solo
5. I admitted to God, to myself and to other human beings the exact nature of my VH4
6. I was entirely ready to have Peter Diezel remove all defects of characterless amplification.
7. I humbly asked Him to remove my lackluster stage presence
8. I made a list of all persons whose ears I then harmed, and became willing to make fans of them all.
9. I made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would cockblock myself
10. I continued to take personal inventory of all my gear and when I was without promptly replenished it.
11. I sought through prayer and medication to improve my conscious contact with Jimi as I understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for me and the powerful Diezel VH4 Half Stack to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of this amp, I tried to carry this message to ampliholics and to practice these scales in all my affairs.