Trainwrecks on CMA awards show

[Blinkie]

My understanding is Brad has two Trainwrecks. A Liverpool and a Rocket. There was a picture he posted on Twitter which showed his two and my Express so maybe that is why people think he has three.


His amps were recently voiced with tubes that Kenny and I both bought together so they sound the way there are suppose to sound!

[dartanion]

Does H.K. still own any Trainwreck amps?

Myself and Jelle got to visit with Henry at his studio last year, and no, he doesn't own any Wrecks. He said they weren't his thing so he sold them.

[M Fowler]

Brad also has a Rocket type built by Bruno see picture (Red amps on left).

Also, I am quite sure Dr Z has built a Rocket for BP as well besides the new Zwreck.

Mark

[Structo]

Didn't Brad and company lose a bunch of guitars and amps in the great Nashville flood?

[M Fowler]

Yup.

[rdjones]

Didn't Brad and company lose a bunch of guitars and amps in the great Nashville flood?

26 people lost their lives.
Over 2000 homes were destroyed or damaged bad enough to be condemned.
Over $1.5 Billion total damage in the Metro area.
So yeah, lot's of people lost a bunch of "stuff".

Brad's favourite '68 Tele and his precious Trainwrecks were not at Soundcheck during the flood.
All the amps and most of the guitars lost (by B.P.) were newer production, the exceptions being a couple older Paisley Teles.
It was all insured.
Some artists were not as lucky, losing very valueable vintage instruments and amps, and were not insured.

The Cowan Street warehouse complex, which houses SoundCheck and numerous other musical, touring and theatrical companies had the water rise to about 4 feet above the main warehouse floor.

[rdjones]

Yup.
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Some tubes (9 pins) were salvaged out of some of the amps by washing in a bleach bath.

rd

[tejastubes]

His amps were recently voiced with tubes that Kenny and I both bought together so they sound the way there are suppose to sound!

[geetarpicker]

What was amazing about the flood down at Soundcheck was that the water in the facility was about 3-4' above the concret slab, but the concrete slab was dock height above the parking lot. Point is, the flood waters were about 6-7' out in the parking lot! Story was the first inspections done inside the Soundcheck storage and rehearsal facility during the flood was done by Waverunners driven though the building.

It was a mess. I fixed half a dozen amps (including a '62 Vox AC30) for a friend who had his gear submerged for days down there and wasn't insured. After pulling the amps out of soundcheck we immediately washed them out by bathing them in a 50/50 mix of rubbing alcohol and distiled water (full submersion), sprayed out the pots with Deoxit and cleaned out everything as well as possible. We then dried everthing well with compressed air and pulled all the transformers. In the end the only parts that needed replacement were a few transformers, and actually out of 6 amps only 3 transformers were toast the rest were saved by having Mercury Magnetics bake them in an aparatus they set up for the purpose. They did this for free for anyone that would pay the shipping. Even the original PT and OT in the '62 AC30 came back to life and that amp has returned to full time studio duties. The other flooded amps I restored were a reissue handwired Plexi 100 Marshall, a reissue JTM45, a reissue handwired Marshall 20 watter, an original '65 fender deluxe, a '71 or so fender princeton reverb, plus the old AC30.

I would bet most of Brad's amps could have been saved with a little work, perhaps some have been... That said with insurance replacement is easier.