20-06-2025, 01:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-06-2025, 01:28 PM by Mike Watterson.)
It's probably derived from the idea of some valve push-pull amp with taps feeding the screen grids by someone that didn't entirely understand what they where doing. It was stupid then and even more stupid now.
Queen's bassist John Deacon probably used a random radio chassis and speaker he happened to have. I've done the same a few times over the years for a little monitor amp when I had a spare junk pocket radio and speaker. Sometimes in a random wooden or plastic box. But unlike John Deacon, I never played a guitar and made living from working in Electronics, Communication Engineering, BBC, AV facilities, Computers & programming and have professional musician friends, so I know it was random and stupidity.
Edit:
In fact analysis was done about 15 years ago and replica amps were on sale in 2011.
It's a fad, and now a really old fad. See Prachett's Soul Music about wanna-be rock musicians getting exploited. It's the talent of the guitarist that's the import thing, and also the "luck" of getting famous. I've known loads of brilliant creatives (songwriters, musicians, artists, authors) and it's not the instrument, amp, writing tools, talent and how great the result is. The fact is that with music performance or writing less than 1% make even a minimum wage from it. The pop "stars" are not the best, nor is J.K. Rowling.
Queen's bassist John Deacon probably used a random radio chassis and speaker he happened to have. I've done the same a few times over the years for a little monitor amp when I had a spare junk pocket radio and speaker. Sometimes in a random wooden or plastic box. But unlike John Deacon, I never played a guitar and made living from working in Electronics, Communication Engineering, BBC, AV facilities, Computers & programming and have professional musician friends, so I know it was random and stupidity.
Edit:
In fact analysis was done about 15 years ago and replica amps were on sale in 2011.
It's a fad, and now a really old fad. See Prachett's Soul Music about wanna-be rock musicians getting exploited. It's the talent of the guitarist that's the import thing, and also the "luck" of getting famous. I've known loads of brilliant creatives (songwriters, musicians, artists, authors) and it's not the instrument, amp, writing tools, talent and how great the result is. The fact is that with music performance or writing less than 1% make even a minimum wage from it. The pop "stars" are not the best, nor is J.K. Rowling.
