About Me

tube amp/audio repair
restoration
upgrade
radical custom! ^^ click it ^^ www.tubesville.com
213-621-9901

My Interests

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*loudness*
*hot anything*
*classic anything*
*walk-in tattoos*
*industrial design*
*roadtrips*
*speed*
*shame*
*guns, chains, knives*
*true love*
*dirty dark denim*
*old spice and gasoline*
*anything kool & krazy*
*anything cute*
*liars*
*wheatgrass juice*
*obsession*
*filthy talkin'*
*whispering in the dark*
*anything pink*
*my two hands*
*1947-1972 outlaw biker style*
*new mexico*
*nerdliness*
*anything original*
*anything greasy*
*mascara running down your face*
*life*
*liberty*
*the pursuit of happiness*

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*pics of me*
*religion / superstition*
*victim mentality*
*bicycles*
*double standards*
*stylebiters*
*pain*
*helmet laws*
*harley logos*
*obsession*
*haters or snobs*
*cliche anything*

I'd like to meet:

the broken & the beautiful

Music:

NO LIMITS.

right now?
*new york and los angeles bands!*
*tim armstrong..a poet's life!!*
*rocksteady*
*the BellRays*
*detroit cobras*
*roxy music*
*townes van zandt*
*the only ones*
*the rezillos*
*lefty frizzell*
*howlin wolf 1950's*
*rap radio in the car*
*chuck berry in the car*
*johnny thunders*
*mink de ville*
*robert wilkins 1929*
*the yayhoos*
*james carr*
*nick lowe/dave edmunds/rockpile*
*anything on vinyl*
*anything loud and loose*

*anything that snarls, stumbles, seduces or sorrows*

Movies:

NO LIMITS.

*RUMBLE FISH*
*la dolce vita*
*silent films, especially russian*
*eraserhead*
*anything by lina wertmuller*
*SUPERVIXENS*
*streets of fire*
*badlands*
*of Freaks and Men*
*anything mitchum*
*anything bad and biker*
*wild zero*
*Que Viva Mexico*
*betty boop*
*louise brooks*
*gimme shelter*
*forbidden zone*
*the shanghai gesture*
*guy maddin*
*vertigo*

Television:

why bother

Books:

Heroes:

many

My Blog

go-go guitars build!

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Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:36:00 PST

lordy! it's a love fest!

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Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:25:00 PST

warning...porn in this message!

two weeks at tubesville :)
Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:18:00 PST

an audio mechanic's manifesto.

this is just to clear up any fuzzy ideas or notions about who i am and what i do.i have loved music all my life, played guitar and bass since i was 11, played professionally, and worked in technical a...
Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:51:00 PST

location map: Tubesville Technical Services in Los Angeles!

I am opening in Los Angeles on July 15th here (map):213-621-9901I will still be doing work in New York City on a prescheduled basis 4-6 times a year when I return to spend time with my sweet...
Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:47:00 PST

proud to serve...

as technical consultant for this new book by my favorite guitar/amp writer, Tom Wheeler (former editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine: thanks, Tom, for the extensive quotations! also, this classi...
Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:08:00 PST

duality (a build for john kurita)

full custom dual mono hi-fi, from the 2 power cables forward.heh! check out this "review" in Stereophile mag:http://www.stereophile.com/news/042406heaven/...
Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:05:00 PST

the ikonoklast (a build for pete francis)

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Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 04:52:00 PST

from the vaults!

thanks, nicole, for digging this up from the mtv archives: as for the year...that i will let you guess :)...
Posted by blackie @ Tubesville Technical Services on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST