While out on tour with Steve over the last 5 years I've had quite a few different amp rigs out here.

Started with 2 Marshall 50 watt 1987 models then went to a rig with a '62 Fender Bassman and an Oahu head.

Also had a Gibson Super Goldtone Head which blew up on me a couple times.  I then went to a really cool rig that used

2 Fender Pro Jr's.  The low watt class A thing sounded fantastic but the build on those amps just wasn't rugged enough

for constant touring.  I saw a couple guys I know using the Dr Z amps and that led me to the Doctor.  For the last two tours I've had the

Dr Z heads out here.  They are fantastic sounding super rugged distintive hand wired class A machines.  I'm using

2 MAZ 18 Jr. NR heads and Z 28 Head. When people ask me about thes amps...and its all the time too...

I send 'em to Stu at Fat Sounds in Cary NC.  He's the biggest  Dr Z dealer and he has some special stuff that the Doctor makes just for him.

The cabinet on the left is a fantastic Gibson Super Goldtone.  It is set up with 2 10" speakers open

backed and 2 12" speakers closed backed.  The cabinet is divided L/R with one 10" and one 12" per side.  On the left side I have a Mojotone

10" ceramic speaker and a Celestion Vintage 30 12".  On the right side I have the new Jensen P-10 R 10" and the P-12 R 12" alnicos.  I had my

friends at Vintage Amp Restoration in St. Louis make the clean looking wheat colored grill for me.  The

blonde Fender Bassman cabinet also has 2 Jensen P-12 R's.  I get my speakers from Acme Guitars in St. Louis.

When the Yayhoos are playing gigs in the US Dan Barid and I have been using 1 Dr Z MAZ 18 Jr. NR each (through bassman cabinets).

For the last few Eric Ambel & The Roscoe Trio runs I've been using the Dr Z Z-28 and Chip Robinson has been using the MAZ 18 Jr NR

Here's a shot of my current pedalboard from top left clockwise....

Wasabi Forward/Reverse delay-I use this specifically for the reverse effect.  Its a good sounding pedal but I found that its not very easy to change

settings on the fly. Thats why I have the Danelectro DanEcho right next to it. The DanEcho has a couple great features. First is the fact that it has a "high cut knob". The reason people say digital echo sucks is because it is too acurate, too scratchy.  With this high cut knob you can dial out the high end so the repeats have less treble. They blend better and sound an awful lot like tape echo.  Other good feature is the "half/double" speed switch.  I can pretty much do the gig with all the settings in one place and toggle back and forth from slap to long ass rockstar solo delay.  The Fulltone Supa-Trem has to be the best trem on the market. It is also very performance friendly with a half/double speed switch, hard/soft effect switch and an internal gain matching pot that helps you recover volume loss encountered by the trem.  The gain stage is the same one Fuller uses in his Fat Boost pedal.  The plain black box to the right of the Supa-Trem is the AC power connection for the Techstar Power Supply that is located underneath the Brooklyn Overdrive. That big white Wah Wah is the Fulltone Clyde Wah.  Its a very smooth well built Wah with an internal contour pot that can make the sweep more intense.  Boss Tuner.

It works and I'm used to it. Continuing bottom row right is the Techstar Standby/Router box made for me by Randy at Techstar.  Guitar goes in then feeds several different signal paths.  Main 2 outputs to to the amps after all the pedals (except for the tuner which is on its own loop).  Its a stereo out from the Fulltone Choral/Flange.  3rd output skips the pedalboard after the standby to go to one amp with a 'no effect' signal (usually the Dr Z Z-28).  The box also has phase switches for outputs 1 and 2 and a master ground switch.  The red box to the left of the router is a loop activator built by Ferg in Nashville.  The DanEcho sounds great but it is not a true bypass pedal.  I use this loop to engage the DanEcho.  The blue box with the Roscoe sticker is a Fulltone Fulldrive 2.  It is one of the earlier models.  I have a gromet under the first gain pot so It is impossible to turn myself down (with the damn comp cut switch) while playing.  The pedal has the Mid-Mod that was done by Keith at Aramat Effects.  New Fulldrives have this mod. Its a less scooped out sound.  The green pedal with the Roscoe sticker on it it the Fulltone Choral/Flange. This is a hell of a wiggle pedal.  It gets me my stereo out and has a gain matching pot on it that is like the one on the Supa-Trem. I use this pedal in conjunction with the Supa-Trem to get a very realitic Leslie effect. The Choral/Flange in stereo with the Supa-Trem in mono comes really close to the "stereo top rotor/mono bottom" of the classic Leslie rotating speaker.  On a Leslie Cabinet the top and bottom rotors are never in sync.  Lastly that blue pedal in the middle is the Brooklyn Overdrive from the girls at Frantone in Brooklyn.  This is the best overdrive I've ever heard. Built truly like a tank and it has more bottom than any other overdrive I've ever heard. How about that?

Two Teles/Two Stories....

Both bodies were painted by Todd Hanson of Hanson Graphix in Wauseon, Ohio

the Purlpe one was built by Phil Maneri of 5th Avenue Fretshop in Columbus, Ohio

It features a '68 Fender neck that I got from Matt at 30th Steet Guitars in NYC. Its got

a Fralin Blues Special pickup in the bridge and a Gibson P-94 that I had laying around

that I decided to use because it matched some of the paint in Todd's body.  Turned out to

be a fantastic pickup combination.

The White one was also painted by Todd. built by Scott Platts of Stonetree Guitars in Saratoga, Wyoming.

Scott came out and measured my '68 and '66 Telecasters and set out to build the Roscoecaster. 

Roscoecaster #1(the 2 tone sunburst copy of my maple board '66) is a fantastic instrument. 

I had this crazy Todd body laying around in my studio for a whole year before it dawned on me to send it to Scott. 

The White one is theresult.  It has a Frallin P-90 and a Blues Special bridge pickup. 

The Blues Special is 5% overwound/5% darker. Its the best tough vintage style pickup.

I really like the Lindy Fralin Pickups.  Lindy gives excellent service.

Both guitars use the fantastic Callaham Vintage T Model Bridge.

Guitar/Amp/Pedal company conspiracy rant....What the guitar companies don't want you to know is that if you put a

.001 capacitor accross the free legs of your volume pot the volume contol on your guitar will actually work.  You can turn

down the guitar without it going to complete crap after 8.5.  Its $1 mod and you can get the part at any Radio Shack (after

you give 'em your damn phone number...)  I found out about this from an old Ohau Lap Steel that I had... I took the guitar

into Paul Skelton to have him figure out why the damn volume control actually worked!  Every single guitar I own has these

caps on the volume pots.