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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:16 pm
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That's certainly a significant price reduction.

And it makes the amp much more competitive against Victoria's "50212" 5E8 clone.

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That's been the street price for the 57 Twin RI (which lists at $3,999.00). The EC amp lists for only $200 more.

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:15 pm
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to all those in the back row msrp manufacure suggested retail price. never what the dealers sell things for. duh...SUGGESTED.YOU CAN GET HIS MAIN SOUND WITH AN E.C.STRAT AND A 57 TWIN.why would they try to up the price on the same amp. the amps don't have 4 inputs either they have 2(high and low) so only one channel. the power brake is a nice addition seeing how these amps are LOUD when you get them to overdrive.oh wait, it's the wrong laqured tweed color and the tacks that hold the e.c. label are not beat deep enough into the wood. dang i new there was something wrong with them. besides my wife would smother me in my sleep if i bought one. she hates clapton music.


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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:53 pm
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besides my wife would smother me in my sleep if i bought one. she hates clapton music.


SACRÉ BLEU!

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:01 pm
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I'd still rather have the Victoria. It has a lifetime warranty and is the closest thing you find to the real deal that Leo Fender created. I'm a grown guy and have the bucks to buy what I want. I don't need to pool any cash to get something just to smash it up. I just wouldn't buy it. Same goes with Fenders overpriced Tweed Champ Reissue. I still would rather have the Vic. If I were still gigging every week like I used to, that's the route I'd take. Victoria takes serious pride in what they build. They have no QC issues that I've ever heard of.

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:32 pm
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gtrnuttoo wrote:
besides my wife would smother me in my sleep if i bought one. she hates clapton music.


SACRÉ BLEU!

:shock:

Arjay

:lol: :lol:
some people just don't like differing opinions I guess.... :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:37 pm
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I have a great wife. Never gives me grief about anything. Equipment? I just bought two new guitars and she helped pick them out! I wound up spending way more than I started out wanting to spend. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:41 pm
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Mine sews up the custom covers for all my oddball-sized home-made amps. She even knows how to set up a PA.

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:03 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
gtrnuttoo wrote:
besides my wife would smother me in my sleep if i bought one. she hates clapton music.


SACRÉ BLEU!

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That would probably be her excuse anyway. :lol: :lol:

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 11:21 am
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..from the horses mouth....

http://www.premierguitar.com/Video/20111005/1652/Fender_Eric_Clapton_EC_Vibro_Champ_EC_Tremolux_and_EC_Twinolux_Amp_Demos.aspx

But why the f*&k did Eric specify the control layout back-to-front?

Ever seen Eric standing BEHIND his amps?

This is marketing bulls*&t at large and simply another strand to the EC pension fund!

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:31 pm
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This is marketing bulls*&t at large and simply another strand to the EC pension fund!


The collectibles market is hot right now -- they'll prolly sell every EC amp they make.

Likely, few will ever actually be played though.

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:06 pm
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But why the f*&k did Eric specify the control layout back-to-front?

Ever seen Eric standing BEHIND his amps?


Uhhh, because that's the way Tweed amps were designed and built. :roll:

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:56 pm
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But it's not a "tweed amp", as designed and built back in the day. It's a repro, adapted and updated for use in the modern era. If nothing else, I would've reconfigured the goddamm stinking panel so it could be read without having to crane and strain one's neck. Thankfully, someone had that much sense when the HRIII's were in the planning stage!

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:14 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
But it's not a "tweed amp", as designed and built back in the day. It's a repro, adapted and updated for use in the modern era. If nothing else, I would've reconfigured the goddamm stinking panel so it could be read without having to crane and strain one's neck. Thankfully, someone had that much sense when the HRIII's were in the planning stage!

Arjay


If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck .....

I have no problems reading the dials and knobs on my BDRI. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:23 pm
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Sure, Bill.

Try it in dark, without your glasses, with two or three guys in your band arguing over which song to play next and a crowd of drunks anxious to groove.

You bedroom players crack me up.

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Post subject: Re: New Fender Eric Clapton signature Amps!
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:51 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
Sure, Bill.

Try it in dark, without your glasses, with two or three guys in your band arguing over which song to play next and a crowd of drunks anxious to groove.

You bedroom players crack me up.

:lol:

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That's why I like the Brownface and Blackface amps front panel,even on a dimly lit stage. :D


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