The Layabouts at the Barn Club

Do you know, for all the hype and paraphernalia of this 'modern world' this was the time, there is no comparison with today's clinical segregationalism and know-it-all bureaucracy with its know the price of everything and not a hint of the value of anything and those times, when we knew how to have fun and to really get down to it and take part. AND they had a secret weapon in their music .. they had tunes!! and a beat!! Great Pictures.

Try and buy an AC30 now...............

Isn't it strange ... we leave the faithfull valve behind and head for new improved and in colour transistors, and microchips and boards ... and what happens? Oh the sound ain't so good; so Return of The Valve, ok so it is a form of hybrid. There has never been a sound to better the spring reverberation unit and the tape loop echo, no matter what technology comes up with it just does not sound right.

Many years ago I tried an imitation valve sound for my bass, it was rubbish, so I returned to an ordinary non valve amp, albiet one of the best, a Trace Elliot bi amp with 11 band graphic eq, it's the closest I've come to a pure sound since the demise of valve amps. Now valve amps have made a return and are flourishing with the musos that know a good sound.

I used to play a Farfisa single manual organ (I think!?) and put it through an Vox AC30. Unfortunately, I lent it to a bloke from Bristol and never saw him or the amp/speaker again, the dirty rotten bedstead!

I know someone with a vintage AC30 and.......vintage Gibson SG that he mucks around on!

@ SS55. Big brother had Gibson Les Paul and at one time Tony McPhee's Fenda of Groundhogs fame.