It does look good, doesn't it? Goes with my shirt.

I meant the first string, the sixth I changed, and it broke when I was stretching it. The TP is just holes in a metal plate, resulting in a sharp edge I should round off. I'd like to think it wasn't a defective string.

Hey I know that I am fashion challenged, but I like it. Works for me. Is it the TP or the nut?

The sixth string broke - had to substitute. I can see how the TP of this guitar is problematic that way - but that's the only one that's broken so far.

Cool. Do it... (with new strings, I trust. )

Yes, I understand perfectly. Everything I've got's different, right down to my headphones, P/A amp, room acoustics, and best-loved oldies recordings.

I am motivated to do some recording this weekend. There just hasn't been anytime, even to play. But there will be.

In 'real life' with a very clean amp I would use my ElectroHarmonix Hot Tubes unit from the early 70's.... but there hasn't been a need to dust that thing off in years.

I like the bassman, I actually like the blackface twin reverb better for my guitar. And the jtm-45 just is killer for my pickups. You have different electronics, and I am sure that with the Bassman you have found a fit. The pieces have to match if you know what I mean.

I was afraid you were going to say you used the Rat or Tube Screamer and make me feel all inadequate and shit.

I am completely hooked on the Bassman, with nothing but reverb. I try to cuddle up to the Marshalls, but it just doesn't happen. The Bassman feels like home.

Yes, to heck with distortion pedals. Yes with the X3 that would be real easy to solve. If you want to stay with one rig, then your pickup vol control is your best friend, and with 2 pickups you can do a lot with dynamics, and tweaking the tone control as you shift back and forth between pickups.

In other words, to heck with the distortion pedals? (Except when trying to emulate some wild lead tone, of course).

With the X3, one footswitch stomp and you go from Bassman to Plexi, so it's a stupidly simple problem to solve in this day and age.

I'd sure like to see a live Nurse Diesel gig.

I see what you are after now. What I would do in a live situation with a no master control stack, is set the volume controls different for the neck and bridge pickups, then I could just flick my toggle and have different amounts of dirt and volume instantly.