"I go to his house and I sit for hours and hours and he just listens to me play. “And I think that’s why in the early days you had that whole thing about when built people amplifiers he wouldn’t want people to sell them because that amplifier was built around that specific person’s style of playing. Everything about it just fits you perfectly. You go from having an amplifier that you’ve been using for years that is off the shelf and you thought it sounded good and played great, and then you have a guy custom-build you one specifically around your style of playing, it’s like having a tailor-made suit. I usually set up four onstage and I’ll use a combination of two at the same time and blend the sound of those two at the front of house.”Īs for how important these modded amps are to his sound, Shepherd said, “For me it is paramount. Shepherd continued, “Those amplifiers, I have a Tweed Bassman, a Pro Reverb, a couple of Bandmasters, a little Deluxe… We’ve got about 11 different amplifiers that he has built for me over the years and every one of them has got a different circuit in it. ![]() Everything about it just fits you perfectly ![]() You have a guy custom-build you an amp specifically around your style of playing, it’s like having a tailor-made suit.
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