The guys in Detroit from the hair metal scene days, at the shops will always tell me that they ALL had Randall Rg100es amplifiers back in those days. Its the best solid state they ever made in a lot of peoples opinion. I have one. George Lynch designed it, and played it on Dokkens Tooth and Nail album...Dimebag Darrel played it on Cowboys From Hell and the Great Southern Trendkill....theres been a lot of work with it otherwise.....I believe Kurt Kobain might have had one too. I didnt know Rivers Coumo from Weezer had one before his days with Weezer when he had a hair metal band Avante Garde in the late 80s: He has been known to use a range of amplifiers. His first big amp was a Randall RG100ES solid state head. He would soon get rid of this amp in favor of an original Mesa/Boogie Mark I amplifier, which was used to record all of the debut Weezer album. He wouldnt use the amp live. Instead, he relied on a Marshall JCM 900 SL-X. He would also eventually rid of the JCM 900 and use another Marshall amp head, the 6100LM 30th Anniversary amp, which he discovered on the set of the Late Show with David Letterman. This would be his main recording and touring amp until the Green album when it became strictly a touring amp until around 2001. For recording the Green album, he relied on a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier and a modified Marshall amp previously owned by Warren DeMartini of the metal band Ratt. A Vox AC30 was also used on several songs. He would continue to use the 6100, along with bringing back the JCM 900, for a while until the band was forced to change up their rig due to budget and shipping restrictions. The entire band eventually got rid of using amps entirely, switching to a single rack that consisted of 2 Line 6 POD Pros and 1 Bass POD Pro. This would be the main gigging setup until later in the same year, when the band eventually went back to using real amps, starting with a Marshall JCM2000 DSL100. This would be their main amp until the Make Believe sessions, when a Diezel VH4 was brought in. This would be Rivers main amp and is still used today. https://youtube/watch?v=Z687XnigaLs
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 23:18:47 +0000
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