LLoyd Green playing a hot rod deluxe?

[Ed Miller Jr]

I was browsing through the new fender frontline and in the amp section they had a testimonial of Lloyd touting the hot rod deluxe amps. He mentioned using them on recordings. I have a HR deluxe, much as I like my old twin, I preferring Gigging with the Hod rod and one of my Teles, I like the sound of my dekley through it. My question is to Mr. Green and company is it true this is what you are now using?

[J D Sauser]

I've had one for a while and I love it (great Speedy West sound!) except for the solid state reverb circuit that sucks, and that's why I brought it back to the dealer.

... J-D.

[Les Pierce]

Ed,

Wow, what a coincidence. I love the sound of my HotRod Deluxe with my Dekley and Tele, also. That just caught me way off guard, I had to say something.

Take care,

Les

[Walter Glockler]

I have a Hot Rod Deluxe with a JBL 15 inch
speaker installed, sounds very good to me.
Walter Glockler

[Reggie Duncan]

From Lloyd Green:

I have finally, after almost a full year, finished my first instrumental album (CD) in about a dozen years. It will not be released until the St. Louis convention where Russ Pahl, the producer, and I wish to preview it. It is unique and will almost certainly be my last instrumental project. The listeners can judge the sound, tone and originality without any preconceptions from me other than to say there are a lot of new ideas and licks, as well as old, incorporated into the effort.
The entire CD was recorded with my 1973 (original) LDG Sho-Bud steel, but with a BL 710 pickup instead of the single coil Sho-Bud. One song has a solo on which I used my 1930s Dobro ( which was on all the Don William's records). My amp of choice was a Fender Hot-Rod Deluxe, with a 15" D-130 JBL speaker.
Currently for sessions I am still using the Hot-Rod but have also begun again recording with a Black Face Fender Twin with one 15" D-130F JBL. I like both but may concede to the Twin since my best 60s and 70s sound was with a similar amp.
My friend, Junior Brown, sings one song and plays a fine electric guitar solo on another. Also, Gillian Welch sings one song which I originally cut on the "Sweetheart of The Rodeo" album.
At St. Louis I will again play through 2 Peavey 1000s since, for live performances, they still sound best to my aging ears at the present.






<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Reggie Duncan on 12 April 2003 at 02:09 PM.]</p></FONT>

[Tony Prior]

Excellent little amps. I too have been playing my Tele thru one for many years now. I do play Steel thru it at rehearsals but not gigs.

How did you guys get a 15" speaker to fit in this little cabinet ? Seems like the 12" just makes it. Perhaps I'll revisit that again.

These are great little amps well worth the price..

tp

[Reggie Duncan]

Reggie,
One clarification on my note to you. I should have stated that my Fender Twin is a cabinet head and the JBL is in a separate open-back external cabinet. This is because in a number of recording studios in this century it is not possible to have one's speaker in the same room when recording. It may be, and often is, 50 to 100 feet away in another room.
The same holds true for my Hot-Rod Deluxe except it is the full amp, only without the speaker. I use the same 8 ohm JBL for both amps although theoretically I should have a 4 ohm for the Twin. But this is the way I always recorded and found it to be of no consequence in tone.

Lloyd

[emil noothout]

Mr. Green, is your Twin a reissue or an original one?

[Richard Plummer]

A SAD SAD SAD DAY INDEED TO LEARN IT WILL BE LLOYDS LAST INSTRUMENT ALBUM EVER. TRULY I AM NOTA HAPPY CAMPER.

[Tony Prior]

LAST album ?

maybe , maybe not

Several recording stars have recorded final albums and then yet, a year later came the return album.

Maybe Lloyd would reconsider like others have done. I certainly hope so.

tp