A lot of the fun of playing guitar is deciding what to buy next?(amp or guitar). Even better is that in 2011 you can spend very little compared to "the old days" and get quit a bit. My suggestion is to buy a Fender Mustang lll which will give you many amp models to play around with until you know what you like best. You will have plenty of power, light weight, effects, and all for less than $300. By the way keep your Blues Junior and you can compare to the 59 Bassman, 57 Champ, etc. I am of the belief that until you have some thing to compare it to (be it guitar or amp) you will never know why you like or don't like something. And today it is cheaper than ever to do. Have FUN!

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98 MIA Strat, 07 MIM 60's Reissue Strat, Mustang l, Mustang lll

Welcome aboard, we need more sexyfenderstrat ladies around here.

I've done a few gigs with the gear that you have - - both with mic'ing the amp, using a direct in (to soundboard) from the amp and just using the amp, so I'd say keep
at it it and you'll be changing that question from "if someday" to "now that I'm"

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

the blues jr is fine for home and small gigs. remember, any amp can be mic'ed to be as loud as the PA system will allow it to be.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Welcome to the forum. I use a Blue's Jr. at some of my gigs. Here's a tip. Turn the volume up to 12 and control the volume of the amp with the master volume. This will drive the tubes enough to get some light bluesy breakup, but still cleans up when you roll off the volume on your guitar.

Someone a few posts back asked if I had any dealings with the Bose L1. I haven't had the fortune of using one but I have heard them. I wish I could afford it.
The modeling amps I would advise to steer clear of. They can be tweaked to sound OK when noodling by yourself but in a live situation they tend to not have the body to deliver the goods. Ask anyone who's gigged with the REAL amps they try to mimic and they will tell you about the same thing. I've owned Line6 Axsys amps, Pod Pros, Digitech 2101's, 2112's and on down the line. That ilk of equipment is best in the studio for squeaky clean effect heavy parts or really saturated dirty stuff with alot of effects.

The question was mine. I've a friend who uses one to amp his guitar. The discussion made me wonder how it would serve as a kind of 'slave'.

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Doc,you seem to always surprise me....the Cafe WHA? now that's just cool!
With all the famous places here in Nashville,I have grown up with them and don't think much of them,and Jimi played R&B in Printer's Alley,and on Jefferson St. here and in Clarksville,Tn.,but had to go to New York to be discovered......even though he had backed people like Curtis Mayfield,Little Richard and the Isleys.....I guess it just took Chas Chandler to see and hear him at the Cafe Wha?.

Greenwich Village during the heart of the folk rock period...another of the fabulous times when it was "The Village"...no longer Kerouac's but Dylan's....the Village of "Positively 4th Street". There were artists who we shared billing with then, in years to come, international superstars, literally didn't have a pot. Manny Roth, the owner (destined to become David Lee's uncle) bought one of them a new suit, so he would have something to wear for a TV appearance. Another wore an old tattered long black winter coat, carried a denture in his pocket. The last time I saw him was in 1974, at a reunion party Manny threw at the club, for everyone who had ever played "The WHA". I was doing a hospital residency then, and went there straightaway after work, in my 'whites'. He looked at at me in shock and said "What the hell is this?!?!?. Woodstock was a memory, and so was one of our alumni, who had graced both those stages. Jimi came into The WHA about a month after we left, finally fronting his own band. I suppose that's the reason for his late discovery. He wasn't free to come into his own until then. Lit up the heavens like a comet, he did. Pity that he fell into the sun.

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Hey guys thanks for all the great information and advice. I am glad I don't need another amp right now.

That's OK...we'd just start all over again from the beginning.

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By the time you add in the bass bins and crossovers, it adds up quite a bit, but a local place has the full system for a house system and it does sound good!

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Agree with all the above.I bought a Tone Master in 1996 but have used it sparingly since because as has been mentioned, i usually dont need all those watts and weight.Generally its a H.R.D. or Super Sonic where i can tame the volume and retain my sound and using pedals and my back is happier.I ,d take a blues junior in a flash, great choice good luck in the future.

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Apologies if I offend anyone, but why the name.. Sexy,, why does everything today have to have some sexual connotation. Your only 19. Is it the only way to get attention? Just asking, ..Yawn… Plus, if you place emphasis on your sexuality you open yourself to the freekies out there. Or as a father with a daughter am I just a bit overly sensitive?

Good luck with your Guitar playing and welcome tothe forum from on old blues boy.

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Becuase it's fun!


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Yes! and there is a distint chance you might be a bit of a "freakie"


Afterthought....Gold roadie post!!!! trashed too like a roadie!!! And i play like one!!! Phaaaaa Baaaaa,,,, Sorry....

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Look's like we're going to take this thread into previously explored territory. We've done it before with other matters, so whyyyyy NOT! buby.[choice of spelling...deliberate...guess why?? ]
To the point, and without further development, consider the following as a sampling from contemporary culture and society:
-Professional football team cheerleaders
-'Housewives of'.........programming
-Advertising copy in guitar magazines
-the new TV series 'Skins"
-Abercrombie and Fitch and Calvin Klein print ads
-artists of all genres and their groupies
-a powerful tool for a multitude of purposes, many of which are designed to sell product
Where else would you like to take this? It is what it is because society in general has made it so.

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