Tube amp addiction, tube amp dyslexia and ECT

[Steve A.]

That reminds me of an AA program

What about founding the TAAA ( Tube Amp Anonymous Addicts ) ?

Well I have a friend who belonged to T&AAA but I don't think that had anything to do with tube amps...

Steve Ahola

[Resonator Guy]

My wife told me I was getting too many guitars (there is no such thing) so I taught her how to play lap steel for an excuse to buy a half dozen more.

Along the way I switched to amps. I have about twenty or so now. Two are solid state - a little Marshall stack that is just too cool looking and a tiny Vox Brian May - but all the rest are tubed and I have messed around to varying degrees with all of them. even built a Mojo 5E3.

I got a 52 Gibsonette today and had to clear two ongoing projects ( a custom Kraft and a home brew) off my bench to check it out. I have it sounding pretty darn good already.

I am just about out of room so I am not sure about ongoing treatment. Maybe a house addition??

[txstrat]

Sometimes I think it's getting worse. Cause everywhere I go I'm somehow reminded of this forum and therefore tube amps too (think of Lt. Frank Drebin). Look at the pic I took in southern France last week.

[Enzo]

EEEEEK!!

He's on to me...


And don;t call me "Shirley."

[defaced]

It took me a solid minute of staring at that picture to get it. Here I am thinking "where the _____'s the tube?!".

[tubeamp100]

Hey, passion for the tube fantasy is totally justifiable. All this smack talk is really just a waste of time when what really should be said is "man I gotta go and work on that perfect sound, you know, the one that makes the hair stand upn the back of my neck!?" Dude, get that heat sink that you dug out of the trash and do something with it. Hell, you may have revolutionized tube amp cooling. Just remember, one persons trash is anothers treasure...

[dkevin]

help me before I .....

I am powerless over the allure of the tube.
Sometimes it makes me sad and then I turn one of these beauties on and plug in and ....I'm not sorry anymore.
Yes, I'm a complete bore at conversation that does not include cathodes and rectifiers. My wife sees me emerging from my repair-lair eager to share the details of my latest adventure and she quickly runs the other way. My friends shake their heads and wonder when I will enter a tube-rehab center. (Isn't that a place where they cryogenically revive fading valves?)
Repeat after me.." I am powerless over the allure of the tube"....

[unparalleled]

Meee tooo

Can someone who has built one of everything help control my addiction?
I have a terrible urge to do something dangerous with this stuff:

(I have another identical pair of the big heavy square things)