Do I have A Disease? IV

Hmm.

Following my skull-ripping headaches which I experienced since monday morning, my sense of smell and taste have now deteriorated to the point where they are now working at only 15%.

How do I know? For some odd reason or another I can taste the chlorine even after the water has been thoroughly boiled... my mum's specially stewed pork tasted bland, when I walked pass the perfume section of Robinson's Raffles City I couldn't smell anything, and what's worse is that my normally nice and minty fisherman's friends now taste somewhat bitter and unwholesome.

Gosh.. what the sam hill is happening to me?

Anyway, I recently checked out a Vox AC15 solid-state amplifier, and goodness gracious me: the clean and dirty sounds just blew the socks right off off me. I mean, the moment I strummed a simple G chord it was like a wave of warmth and solid tone... kicker is.. it's going for less than 200 bucks (OMG!!!)

However Lawrence (guy who works at the shop), told me that if I liked that amplifier, he could get me the AC30 for a negotiable price... and the AC30 has even much better tone. I was just thinking to myself... well, there's always a bigger fish, and when do we (sick-tone freaks like myself who are constantly searching for the ultimate guitar sound) ever stop in our quest, apart from the lack of dough?

I mean, it's just like the quest for volume in the early days of guitar amplification: amplifiers were initially availible only at a maximum of 50 watts? Then came along this psycho guy called Pete Townshend (guitarist for The Who) who commissioned the first 100-watt amplifier.. and that started a whole new trend which culminated in the biggest output an amplifier (Marshalls of course) which tops the bill at around 350 watts. For the record, the reason why I called Pete Townshend a psycho is because he used to thrash is amplifiers and throw his guitars into the speaker cones... ouch.

Anyway... it seems to me that this amplifier could be a reasonable substitute for my Marshall 15 watt (I mean, I fell in love with it from the very first strum.. what can I say, folks?) especially since the dirty sound is much bigger and cleaner than my Marshall (Malcolm Young, watch out!) and my guess is that once I kick in my overdrive pedal on top of the dirt and play some leads... it will be a whole new redefinition of the term 'blues rock'.

But untill then, I'm still stuck with my Marshall, but I hope and pray... I'll hope and pray.


Cheers,

Crawldaddy