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We have 2 boys, Dana 14, and Dylan 8.

You gotta be kiddin me. Dana is a girls name.

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Originally posted by dosmun:

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We have 2 boys, Dana 14, and Dylan 8.

You gotta be kiddin me. Dana is a girls name.

Was this supposed to be funny Dosmun?

Actually it was. That's Dosmuns name too.

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Originally posted by Chewie:
Actually it was. That's Dosmuns name too.

My son doesn't like that reference (girls name) and I guess I get a little defensive. Sorry Dosmun.

My son was named after a very good friend of mine who was killed at a party by some guys who were trying to get after a girl. He defended her and they went away and came back with a gun and shot him. I hope this explains my reasoning. Anyway, back to Roll Call fun.

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Originally posted by THazy:

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Originally posted by Chewie:
Actually it was. That's Dosmuns name too.

My son doesn't like that reference (girls name) and I guess I get a little defensive. Sorry Dosmun.

My son was named after a very good friend of mine who was killed at a party by some guys who were trying to get after a girl. He defended her and they went away and came back with a gun and shot him. I hope this explains my reasoning. Anyway, back to Roll Call fun.

Yep My name is " Dana Osmun" so I have heard that line a few times over the years myself. I even had a couple girl friends name Dana.

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Originally posted by dosmun:
You gotta be kiddin me. Dana is a girls name.

Remember, there was even a "Boy named Sue"...

Anybody else?

Hi,

I'm Bjorn Juhl proprietor of BJF Electronics, maker of pedals and designer of
amps, writer of articles at the age of 40 advanced- yes I am farty. I am happliy
married since 10 years, to Eva , who's my graphic designer on what sparetime
her day job gives and we have two daughters M&M and three cats and I collect
books and T-shirts and Eva reads and wears them as I have little time these
days. I used to have a serviceshop for amps guitars and pedals fixing anything
from a tubon to an electric fence for horses, though there is little time for that
now with many pedal orders and new designs lurking each day
I've played guitar since the age of 12, and started with the clarinett at the age of
9- as they would not let me play guitar at first
I had my first job as a guitar technician at a music store at the age of 16 and
was likely doomed from that day
I have played with various punkbands on the most disappointing gear there was
at the time and later with various powerpopbands, and been guest artist with
blues and rock comboes, and played guitar with Sex Pistols tribute bands aswell
as Beatles tribute bands and backed independant songwriters, and worked with
recordings of electrical guitar tracks, setting sounds, and worked as a guitar
instructor ( mostly with female students ), and sometimes give lectures in analog
amplifier electronics even these days, and I have worked as a tech to unknown
stars and composers, examining the pick to speaker cloth to hear what makes the
sound, and toured and recorded mostly on an independant label, only to find
what I'd really like to do at the age of 31, playing the same style of music I
started with but with some knowledge gained and feel at home playing live or
recording original music.Yes I am a compulsive guitarplayer- I have thought
about letting that go- I mean 39 years of playing and still not better than this?
But it's comforting and relaxing and it's a core
started once when hearing Hank B Marvin or George Harrison or just maybe it
was because my mother went to see the Beatles in her late pregnancy while this
was developed when hearing Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols and Johnny
Ramone, something I needed to be able to understand Jimi Hendrix and BB
King, Ritche Blackmore and Clapton- yes I liked their sounds but lusted for the
powerful sound of the distorted rythm guitar, such as that Malcom Young plays,
(come on 10CC had some major rythm guitar tracks ) and the melodic leads
such as that of Chris Isaac's guitarist.
My father told me as a piece of advice that the best thing about getting old is that
you understand more of what you really want and perhaps also have the means
of getting that, but more importantly be able to make correct choices less based
on just curiousity, but such that you'd be happy with for extended times.
Oh yea, I'll get old and grow roses
At the time I thought I'd die young and make a cute corpse.
Through the diversity of music I have been hired to play I had to build myself a
new circuit once a month to get this or that sound needed- there just wasn't
around these things I needed- if there had been I'd have played and shut up
I enjoy good sounds and used to when I was younger go to every music store to
find out what was new and how to apply new sounds- yes well there are
limitations to what I'd like to explore and some of the low fi sounds it took 20
years for me to understand the virtues of as when there are options to an
aboundance of good sounds also the ugly sounds fall into place to wake up
things.
I joined this board some years ago as I was pointed to it and it has remanied a
source of knowledge about things new and I have gathered new friends with
same interests.
Thanks
I will say I have learnt alot and will continue to learn

These days I have and use better things than I started with many years ago
in terms of guitars, pedals, amplifiers and strings you name it and have even
recently picked up the acoustic guitar to learn ballads.
A good friend sent me slide the otherday and it fits my pinky finger so I guess
I'll have to sit down and learn.

Les Pauls are my main guitars, though I enjoy a strat and a Tele for somethings
and they all suggest different things to be played.
Generally I believe you can play anything on a strat and those are indestructable
and I also played a strat for many years, and still do if the sound is called for,but
Les Pauls have the sustain and Teles the dynamics.......and P-90's well those
touch the soul............ decisions,decisions and choices galore, got to have them
all.

I don't come by that often but tend to write long replies, mostly on things I like
and not necessarily things I make myself.

Throughout the years I have always had trouble with amplifiers either not
producing the sound in a stable way or not producing the sound as I'd like it or
just plain dying, which is the spirit in which the MP amp was made to get rid of
all of that and just make life easy

I make pedals in most of the shades of the rainbow to fit most of the sounds on
a sound rainbow, and all have impossibly long names so they are reduced to
acronyms. They do all combine because most of my old pedal collection would
never do that.

Uh gear? well enough.

I'd say this though I have never owned a Tube Screamer, but have that covered
by a TTS from Pedal worX.
Also I have never owned a Fuzz Face- though I have had VoX Tonebender but
have a Mc Fuzz for that type.
Last year I got a RAT, which I don't use. Hm, I wonder why
I don't anymore own a wha as the best one I had I lent to a friend who lost it in a
studio, and many years later I got one that was just as good but lent it to a guy
that was too poor to afford gear but that was a brilliant player- this guy got so
happy when he met the girl of his dreams and got engaged that he celebrated in
cogniac and died of heart failiure that same night- it seemed wha's were not for
me though I have tuned more whas than I care to remember, but that was back in
the day I'd fix anything anybody would put on my table.
I have never owned a Uni Vibe- I just don't get along with them- I'd say though
that the Mojo Vibe is the best I have tried and one I'd actually consider owning.
Yes I know, the Pedal Detective told there is a penalty for playing unvibed.......
Big Muffs I have never owned either always they seemed to dark or too bright
or just the midrange placed in the wrong place for the kind of amps I have
played.
I did like the Skreddy pedals though.
The only Fender amp I have ever owned was a Fender 75 Lead with an EV 15"
Nor have I ever owned a Marshall or a Vox.
But I have had access and played through good examples of each

Yup I have serviced and restored all kinds of amps and all kinds of pedals and
there have always been something that make this sound that just inspires to
something

Thanks
BJ

'What It Is' Steven Bruton
www.bjfelectronics.com
www.mpamp.com

Hello all,

I have just a bit of gear so far. I'm starting out full throttle though.

Amp:
Carr Rambler 1x12 Serial # 31

Guitars:
1991 Strat Plus Deluxe - Clear finished white guard - Swamp Ash/Rosewood with Lollar Tweed pickups installed

2000 52RI Telecaster - Butterscotch finished black guard - Swamp Ash/Maple with Bill Lawrence 280TN/290TL pickups installed

Pedals:
Clark/Barber - Gainster - Serial #8
Vox - Valvetone V810 - Serial #149
Rockman - Acoustic Guitar Pedal
Marshall - Blues Breaker - 1st edition
Chicago Iron - Octavian Plus - Serial #13 of 25
Analogman - Clone - Stereo with toggle #1133S
MJMGuitarFX - London Fuzz
ISP - Decimator - Noise Reduction pedal

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