Now that you've built your sound...

The place to discuss 18W-related ampfests, get-togethers, gigs, etc. These should be of interest specifically to 18watt.com members.

Moderators: JMPGuitars, CurtissRobin, zaphod_phil, rock_mumbles

Post Reply
CurtissRobin
Senior Amp Tech
Senior Amp Tech
Posts: 1169
Joined: Sat 08/09/08 2:00 am
Location: Columbia River Gorge, Oregon Side

Now that you've built your sound...

Post by CurtissRobin »

...and your 18 watt amp sounds so-o-o-o good, what are the three (PLE-E-E-E-EAZE, only three) best sounding songs that you play? I'd like to give people who have not yet been assimilated a sense of what our lovely little monster does.
My three are (for this morning, anyway).
Vehicle -- The Ides of March (1969)
Tush -- ZZ Top (1975)
Heart Attack and Vine -- Tom Waits (1980)

I figured that we've talked enough about the equipment so we should talk a little about the reason the equipment exists, eh?

KennyO
0 x

keith71
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 67
Joined: Tue 10/05/04 2:00 am
Location: Burgundy, France

Post by keith71 »

I love my 18watt for playing Jimi Hendrix "Hey baby",, but I like most improvisation in different style from funk to african soukous, manden, blues, reggae with this little tone monster.
0 x

JohnnyCrash
Frequent poster
Frequent poster
Posts: 930
Joined: Mon 07/11/05 2:00 am
Location: Unknown

Post by JohnnyCrash »

Usually something by ACDC. By something I mean every ACDC lick/song that comes to mind :)

Sometimes some Chuck Berry on 'roids and a few times some Country licks.
0 x

davent
Occasional poster
Occasional poster
Posts: 305
Joined: Thu 05/04/06 2:00 am
Location: The 'Hammer'

Post by davent »

I'd say I'm a much better solder slinger then a guitar slinger but i do like the way Mississippi Queen has started to sound in the past couple days. And like JohnnyCrash said anything AC/DC, pick up the guitar hit a chord or note and what... it's the beginning of something AC/DC has done.

dave
0 x

dotfret
Frequent poster
Frequent poster
Posts: 922
Joined: Wed 09/29/04 2:00 am
Location: East Yorkshire

Post by dotfret »

When the tone takes me -

I'm Just Your Fool , Little Walter
Murdering Blues , Robert Nighthawk (there's a nice Johnny Winter version)
John, Ain't It Hard , Taj Mahal
0 x

StarGeezers
Frequent poster
Frequent poster
Posts: 659
Joined: Tue 07/15/08 2:00 am
Location: New Orleans

Post by StarGeezers »

Don't take me alive -SD
Green earrings -SD
Sympathy for the devil -Stones
0 x

User avatar
Bulatovic
Occasional poster
Occasional poster
Posts: 292
Joined: Fri 12/08/06 2:00 am
Location: Egham, UK / Belgrade, Serbia

Post by Bulatovic »

Gary Moore has recorded Eyesight To The Blind from his Close As You Get album using Orange Tiny Terror and coupled it with a Marshall 2061X with its 2x12 combo - but i'm sure you can get there with a 18w as well.

http://www.box.net/shared/u27lbu9ufk
0 x

User avatar
Ripstich
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 86
Joined: Sun 09/23/07 2:00 am
Location: Las Vegas NV (SinCity)

Post by Ripstich »

Hideaway
Rollingstone or CatFish Blues
Love Struck Baby

Played on a Gretsch Corvette, with megatron's, Then I haven't even gotten to my my favs with the 335 with the 3X P90's, the Hohner, LP the Strat, Tele etc. To many variables with so many guitars.

Can we raise the Bar, how about three tunes per guitar? Livin in Vegas you have to raise and call. (LOL)
0 x
lets just start with a set of 809´s and work backwards

Colin_D
Occasional poster
Occasional poster
Posts: 401
Joined: Fri 06/29/07 2:00 am
Location: Spokane WA

Post by Colin_D »

honky-tonk woman
la grange
cowboy song

...and any ac/dc, as has been stated already.
0 x

leslie
Transformer Guy
Posts: 1082
Joined: Sun 03/12/06 2:00 am
Location: Dalmatia
Contact:

Post by leslie »

To make you feel my love (tremolo)/B.Dylan
Graceland/P.Simon
Two Trains/L.Feat

Anyway, it just amplifies what you have inside.
that way it is easier to notice when you have nothing

And there goes ,...where is soldering iron,damn Rk and Ck I'll get you! and those tubes cccc,I'm gonna by me some Amperex stuff on ebay...
0 x

User avatar
Rich_S
Occasional poster
Occasional poster
Posts: 218
Joined: Thu 04/03/03 2:00 am
Location: Potsdam, NY
Contact:

Post by Rich_S »

Time the Avenger (Pretenders)
Synchronicity II (Police)
Precious Time (Pat Benetar)

For more insights, see my new thread: http://www.18watt.com/modules.php?name= ... ic&t=21424
0 x
La, la, laaaa... la-la, la, la!

Rich Stevens

See the 2-Tone Blue Mutant 13 Watter!

User avatar
RocksOff
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 99
Joined: Sun 12/14/08 2:00 am
Location: Unknown

Post by RocksOff »

Ah... so many sound great on these things.

Mr Big - Free
Jailbreak - AC/DC
Bitch - Rolling Stones

all played on my Firebird. That guitar was MADE for these amps.
0 x

Buschman
Occasional poster
Occasional poster
Posts: 438
Joined: Sun 03/06/05 2:00 am
Location: Southeast Texas
Contact:

Post by Buschman »

1 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
2 Because we've ended as lovers
3 Good Day for the Blues
0 x

conger
Occasional poster
Occasional poster
Posts: 468
Joined: Mon 05/15/06 2:00 am
Location: Wales

Post by conger »

Bulatovic wrote:Gary Moore has recorded Eyesight To The Blind from his Close As You Get album using Orange Tiny Terror and coupled it with a Marshall 2061X with its 2x12 combo - but i'm sure you can get there with a 18w as well.

http://www.box.net/shared/u27lbu9ufk
I didn't know that Gary Moore recorded it with a Tiny Terror. I am sure he would sound great through anything. However, you can hear the fuzziness at the start of that track and then throughout that is characteristic of the the TT. Sometimes that lends a nice edge to the sound but other times it sounds just too fuzzy. Same with a lot of Rory Galagher through his Vox's.

Shame he didn't use an 18Watt.
0 x

rjgtr
Builder, Admin
Builder, Admin
Posts: 6668
Joined: Wed 11/24/04 2:00 am
Location: Jax, FL
Contact:

Post by rjgtr »

Gee Just about any classic Rock works.

Any Bad Company seems like a great choice.
Any Duane Allman (Slide sounds great on an 18watt)

Hmm ... So how about -

All Right Now Bad Company
Don't Keep Me Wondering Allman Brothers
Aqualung Jethro Tull
0 x

microamp
Newbie
Newbie
Posts: 73
Joined: Mon 02/18/08 2:00 am
Location: The Hudson Valley, NY

Post by microamp »

cream - strange brew
Bad Co - Can't get enough of your love
zz top - sharp dressed man
0 x

E-rex
Occasional poster
Occasional poster
Posts: 287
Joined: Fri 11/11/05 2:00 am
Location: NW Arizona
Contact:

Post by E-rex »

Lots of tones possible with my Lite II / Strat / Les Paul...here's three our band plays:

Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang; low input, vol=5, tone=7, using a strat split between bridge and mid pickup. Some light delay and light chorus from my old CE-2

Tom Petty - Listen To Her Heart; same setup as above.

Ramones - Beat On The Brat; hi input, vol=8, tone=6 using a Les Paul on the bridge pickup.
0 x

User avatar
Bulatovic
Occasional poster
Occasional poster
Posts: 292
Joined: Fri 12/08/06 2:00 am
Location: Egham, UK / Belgrade, Serbia

Post by Bulatovic »

For some reason i find if i put volume quite low - 2 or 3 and play my Strat - i get fantastic Little Wing tone, and when cranked it does nice Highway Child. It's a mini Hendrix amp if you ask me!

Other stuff... well (all with a Les Paul)

Strange Brew - Cream
Baby Please Don't Go - AC/DC
Show Business -AC/DC
Hard Times - Gary Moore
0 x

User avatar
ReverendD
Unrated
Posts: 23
Joined: Thu 09/06/07 2:00 am
Location: Unknown

Post by ReverendD »

For my TMB I'd say:

Hells Bells - Ac/Dc
Tush - ZZ Top
My woman from Tokyo - Deep Purple :D

Regards,

Rev. D.
0 x

Post Reply