Truly remarkable session. Mr. Smith is surprising: only a few combine the drive, the effectiveness and true humility into a remarkable life. The stories were great. I think we all should go out and buy a boogie amp! Nash and Nate: hats off to being able to put this man at such ease that he opens up his own thoughts and feelings about music and enabling those that make it. I absolutely adored the Trinity reference. Mr. Smith's integrity/transparency was a heart tug. It is astonishing to see a community of players and enablers so willing to benefit one another.
Thank you so much for tuning in my friend! Randall is a wellspring of knowledge and central figure in rock n roll history. Nate and I were truly humbled that he took the time out of his busy schedule to hang out and talk shop.
That was a great episode! I thoroughly enjoyed every minute! The words and wisdom of one of our guitar amp founding fathers is very inspirational! And of course great job with the questions and comments...
Thank you for posting this interview. I started playing in 1976 and listed over the Mesa amps, it wasn’t until the SOB (Son of Boogie) came out could I afford one. Now I have over 20 pieces of Mesa products and Randall Smith and his team have been inspiring. Thank you Randall you’ve made my life better through the music you have helped me make!
Enjoyed this very much!You earned my subscription today!!I just bought the latest Boogie by Randall the Mark 7!!Amazing tones from this beast!Crystal cleans to Monster Gain with note definition and articulation!!I also own a revision F Dual Rectifier 1993model!The most reliable amp I have ever had!Been through 4 or 5 others but my Recto remains trouble free!!!What great amps indeed!!!
You touched my soul and it felt wonderful! I am a 69 year young guitar/vocalist doing my own and classic rock shows in Reno,NV. I picked up my grandfathers Supro Les Paul with his tveed Fender vibrolux Combo in my third grade of school in San Jose, CA. When I later saw a Mesa Boogie amp at Guitar Showcase it was love at first encounter. I made great money in construction but resented the high price and the policy of Boogie to not allow any substantial discount of their products to the result of pulling their franchise if they found any reseller had broken this rule. After a few years when I finally played through the Studio pre amp and a Simul 295 I understood. I was to never again own less than 2 Boogies after that. I have owned many and each one was superb and far superior to any other amp I knew of. I still have and love multiple favorite models from Marshall but if I had to choose only one it would surely be a Boogie, without any doubt or hesitation. I am starting a TH-cam channel and hope to share the joyful experience I have found only with owning and using my Boogies. Randall Smith I hope you know the appreciation you create when you create these tools. Thank you!! I wish you well and many blessings!
Wow!!! What a great story, thank you so much for sharing! I’ll be sure to send this to Randall. God bless you on your TH-cam channel as well as all of your musical expression and endeavors!
Thanks for leaving a comment. I’m so sorry that when you visited, we were out at the time. If you’re ever in the Springfield area, please stop by! I would love to meet you and show you some amps!
Hearing Lee Michaels' name made me chuckle a little bit. Many years ago I was at Rick Turner's shop in SF. There was a mountain of small 1x12 cabinets there and I asked Rick, 'what's the deal with those?' Rick said that he built them, for Lee but he thought that they were too small ( Lee wanted a huge wall of speakers behind him) so he built him bigger ones and was selling the small ones...
Curious why Mesa doesn't seem to ever use a tube rectifier in amps they make. I thought maybe the Falcon amps might have tube rectifiers. Seems they don't. Another question: How different are the Gibson Falcon amps from the Mesa Boogie California Tweed amps?
Great question! To my knowledge, the dual rectifier and triple rectifier, still use tube rectifiers. A lot of Mesa’s other amps rely on preamp gain and use the “tightness” of a solid state rectifiers to achieve a desired percussiveness. Nash and I did a demo of the Falcon recently where we talk a lot about the differences between the California Tweed and the Falcon amp. Have you watched that yet?
bought a pedal a couple of years ago and the guy was selling everything, including a mesa boogie mark V, to play through these digital modeling technologies, im glad im 54 years old and had being able to play the real stuff, before this new digital era
I have Prune Music amp made by Randall, Deluxe Reverb, owned I'm told by Lee Michaels, Jack O'Hara, then me, had it for 45 years now. Randall if you want to see it let me know, I'm in Marin now
Early 70's & late 70's are identical other than the addition of a perfectly well implemented master volume. The version with the distortion (1976 - early '77) is definitely different, but it's also a great amp. It's really more like a lower powered V9 than the "standard" V4 though. Most importantly, all of the 70's V4's have the same amazing output transformer, and only the distortion model has a different power transformer that's more like the SVT with an additional secondary winding for the screen supply so it can run 6550's. All of them are great amps just the way they are.
@@jayletter5209 These amps, sadly, are off the market. Why is no one revamping these amps? Also, with regard to the many modeling amps, is there one modeling amp that pays any homage to these Ampeg amps? None that I've seen. Here's a named person of note who only used these beautiful Ampegs - get this - it's Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong. He's a real musician. In any of their movies, there's always a guest appearance, a cameo, by an early 1970s Ampeg, usually a V-2 with a V-4 cabinet.
Truly remarkable session. Mr. Smith is surprising: only a few combine the drive, the effectiveness and true humility into a remarkable life. The stories were great. I think we all should go out and buy a boogie amp! Nash and Nate: hats off to being able to put this man at such ease that he opens up his own thoughts and feelings about music and enabling those that make it. I absolutely adored the Trinity reference. Mr. Smith's integrity/transparency was a heart tug. It is astonishing to see a community of players and enablers so willing to benefit one another.
Thank you so much for tuning in my friend! Randall is a wellspring of knowledge and central figure in rock n roll history. Nate and I were truly humbled that he took the time out of his busy schedule to hang out and talk shop.
Great stories, and awesome video. 👍👍👍
Thank you so much for watching! 🙏
what a great interview
Thank you! 🙏
What a fun interview. Love hearing directly from the creative minds that fuel our passion.
Thanks Eric, it was good to see you yesterday at the store!!! 🙏
That was a great episode! I thoroughly enjoyed every minute! The words and wisdom of one of our guitar amp founding fathers is very inspirational! And of course great job with the questions and comments...
Thank you so much, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!! I appreciate your comment and taking the time to watch. 👍
Thank you for posting this interview. I started playing in 1976 and listed over the Mesa amps, it wasn’t until the SOB (Son of Boogie) came out could I afford one. Now I have over 20 pieces of Mesa products and Randall Smith and his team have been inspiring. Thank you Randall you’ve made my life better through the music you have helped me make!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
I these decades I never knew the voice behind Smucker's commercials was the genius who built my favorite amp. WOW!
Good to see Randall healthy and kicking. Awesome interview 🎉
He’s an absolutely inspirational individual and we are so blessed to have had this opportunity!
@@naterevolution Met him once a few years ago, and youre definitely right. He needs to write a book of all these cool stories!
Loved this! So many great stories! “Creative lunacy” is my new goal! ❤️
Thanks mom, love you!!!! 🥰
Enjoyed this very much!You earned my subscription today!!I just bought the latest Boogie by Randall the Mark 7!!Amazing tones from this beast!Crystal cleans to Monster Gain with note definition and articulation!!I also own a revision F Dual Rectifier 1993model!The most reliable amp I have ever had!Been through 4 or 5 others but my Recto remains trouble free!!!What great amps indeed!!!
Thank you so much!🙏
Man, The TH-cam channel is blowing up! You guys have had some great shows lately!
Thank you so much!!! Appreciate your encouragement! 🙏
Great interview with such an amazing man of energy and inspiration !
Randall is definitely a one of a kind! We are so blessed to have been able to visit with him. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Fantastic interview. Thank you!!!!
Thank you!!! 🙏
Well done guys. I enjoyed very much.
Thank you! 🙏
Lovely. I always thought Mesa Boogie=Metal too. What a lovely man, great interview. Everyone just humble and enthusiastic.. Thanks. Subscribed...
Thank you for subscribing! We appreciate you. 🙏
You touched my soul and it felt wonderful! I am a 69 year young guitar/vocalist doing my own and classic rock shows in Reno,NV. I picked up my grandfathers Supro Les Paul with his tveed Fender vibrolux Combo in my third grade of school in San Jose, CA. When I later saw a Mesa Boogie amp at Guitar Showcase it was love at first encounter. I made great money in construction but resented the high price and the policy of Boogie to not allow any substantial discount of their products to the result of pulling their franchise if they found any reseller had broken this rule. After a few years when I finally played through the Studio pre amp and a Simul 295 I understood. I was to never again own less than 2 Boogies after that. I have owned many and each one was superb and far superior to any other amp I knew of. I still have and love multiple favorite models from Marshall but if I had to choose only one it would surely be a Boogie, without any doubt or hesitation. I am starting a TH-cam channel and hope to share the joyful experience I have found only with owning and using my Boogies. Randall Smith I hope you know the appreciation you create when you create these tools. Thank you!! I wish you well and many blessings!
Wow!!!
What a great story, thank you so much for sharing! I’ll be sure to send this to Randall. God bless you on your TH-cam channel as well as all of your musical expression and endeavors!
The Fillmore is an amazing amp!
Yes it is!!! Probably my favorite of the current lineup.👍
Amazing interview! Now I need one more MESA amp :D
You and me both! 😄👍
Loved this episode thank you for this!
Thank you Tony!!! 🙏
No thank you I really had no idea the depth of this man. So so cool
Great interview. My favorite amps. I love my .50 caliber plus.
Thanks Steve! 🙏
What a lovely soul.
Great Interview !
Ive visited some palen music stores and sadly found no mesa boogie amps. Walked out with a custom 24 but no amp to go with it.
Thanks for leaving a comment. I’m so sorry that when you visited, we were out at the time. If you’re ever in the Springfield area, please stop by! I would love to meet you and show you some amps!
@naterevolution love that store. Will drop in next time in the area
hearing him say i cant stop 😭
Hearing Lee Michaels' name made me chuckle a little bit. Many years ago I was at Rick Turner's shop in SF. There was a mountain of small 1x12 cabinets there and I asked Rick, 'what's the deal with those?' Rick said that he built them, for Lee but he thought that they were too small ( Lee wanted a huge wall of speakers behind him) so he built him bigger ones and was selling the small ones...
That’s awesome! Love hearing that. I wonder what became of those cabs?
My mark 3 that I bought in 86 sounds as good as now as it was new !
Same is for my Studio 22+.
Curious why Mesa doesn't seem to ever use a tube rectifier in amps they make. I thought maybe the Falcon amps might have tube rectifiers. Seems they don't.
Another question: How different are the Gibson Falcon amps from the Mesa Boogie California Tweed amps?
Great question! To my knowledge, the dual rectifier and triple rectifier, still use tube rectifiers. A lot of Mesa’s other amps rely on preamp gain and use the “tightness” of a solid state rectifiers to achieve a desired percussiveness. Nash and I did a demo of the Falcon recently where we talk a lot about the differences between the California Tweed and the Falcon amp. Have you watched that yet?
You're not paying attention. MANY Mesa amps have had tube rectifiers. Including most of the Rectifier series.
@@Turboy65 Yeah, but the Falcon is supposed to be a recreation of an old amp that had a tube rectifier - 5Y3.
@@mrfuzztone The Falcon sounds like a 500 dollar amp, not a 1500 or 1800 dollar amp like Gibson wants to charge for.
bought a pedal a couple of years ago and the guy was selling everything, including a mesa boogie mark V, to play through these digital modeling technologies, im glad im 54 years old and had being able to play the real stuff, before this new digital era
I have Prune Music amp made by Randall, Deluxe Reverb, owned I'm told by Lee Michaels, Jack O'Hara, then me, had it for 45 years now. Randall if you want to see it let me know, I'm in Marin now
That’s awesome!!! Thanks for sharing and we will pass that along!
RIP Sal Trentino, I think he made that whizzer, he used to fix my stuff until he passed away about 10 years ago.
Triaxis gave us alternative volume settings for the same amp settings.
Whatever happened to
"pandora's box"?
Triaxis 3.0 ?
Any insight why Randall Smith was let go?
An amazing man, too bad he had no idea Gibson was about to fire him for the company he made.
Here's an idea....Ampeg early '70s V series. It's the elephant in any amp hot rodding room.
Early 70's & late 70's are identical other than the addition of a perfectly well implemented master volume. The version with the distortion (1976 - early '77) is definitely different, but it's also a great amp. It's really more like a lower powered V9 than the "standard" V4 though. Most importantly, all of the 70's V4's have the same amazing output transformer, and only the distortion model has a different power transformer that's more like the SVT with an additional secondary winding for the screen supply so it can run 6550's. All of them are great amps just the way they are.
@@jayletter5209
These amps, sadly, are off the market. Why is no one revamping these amps? Also, with regard to the many modeling amps, is there one modeling amp that pays any homage to these Ampeg amps? None that I've seen.
Here's a named person of note who only used these beautiful Ampegs - get this - it's Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong. He's a real musician. In any of their movies, there's always a guest appearance, a cameo, by an early 1970s Ampeg, usually a V-2 with a V-4 cabinet.
It's despicable that Gibson sent Randall packing!
Old Mercedes.....yup......the new ones are crap like everywhere else
What an absolutely horrible interview.
🤣😂😅👍