Just got it a few days ago, the pictures alone are worth the price! He was the heartbeat of the bands he played with, playing loud and proud, driving all the other musicians to play their best.
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Remembering Keith Ferguson
- Thread starter Paul New
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I think you're right because I've seen several pictures of him with a white Dual Showman head and a double 15" cab, it wasn't a dual Showman cab though. He got a GREAT sound.
Keith was a walking talking living history of low down dirty nasty blues and by his own words to me not the best example of how to live a life but wth.
Dietz was the house brand for Ray Hennig's Heart o' Texas Music that at one time had several stores in central Texas. They manufactured PA, Bass cabinets as well as specialized PA electronics. Many bass players used the Dietz single or dual 15" boxes that were normally loaded with EV15L speakers although others might have been used. The Dietz aka HOT Boxes were also the house cabs in many clubs. They were loud, tight and punchy sounding and fairly portable and very durable lending top their popularity.
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I still use a single 15 deeps cab on my Wednesday night blues jam. Ray hennings is also where Stevie ray bought 1 of his strats
"The guitarist for Paul Ray & the Cobras lived in South Austin only a couple of blocks from Ray Hennig's Heart O' Texas Music, and would often walk over and be sitting on the curb outside when Ray arrived to open up. One day he was plunking around on this 15-year old, beat up, rusty strat that Christopher Cross had traded in the day before.
He came up to Ray and said "Ray, Ray, this is what I've been looking for! It's got the sound!"
Ray said "That old thing? That's one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever traded for."
"I know, I know, but it's got that sound. It's what I've been looking for!"
Ray: "OK Stevie, bring back one of those other two guitars I loaned you and you can take this one home."
Which is how Stevie Ray Vaughan met what he called his First Wife, the beat up '59 strat he loved so much."
He came up to Ray and said "Ray, Ray, this is what I've been looking for! It's got the sound!"
Ray said "That old thing? That's one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever traded for."
"I know, I know, but it's got that sound. It's what I've been looking for!"
Ray: "OK Stevie, bring back one of those other two guitars I loaned you and you can take this one home."
Which is how Stevie Ray Vaughan met what he called his First Wife, the beat up '59 strat he loved so much."
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I bought that book for my Kindle on your recommendation last year and forgot about it, just started it last night, very good so far. I've been a Leiber-Stoller fan since I was a kid.
I've never tried a Dietz but like single 15" cabs, I've used one or two '90s ampeg B-15T cabs (4 ohm Eminence) with an SVT for years, one 15" is nice.
