Robben Ford Discussion

stevew · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject: Tonkers - Robben in Seattle

Great to meet you in Seattle last night David. What a show(s) Stayed for the second as well. Appreciated your comments about Robbens gear and fun chatting about Segarini. Small world. The Tonkers do sound great. Forgot to ask and the others may be interested to know. How/ why did you determine that the Tonkers needed a smaller magnet? Doe sit change the tone and in what way?

Daved · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject:

Pleasure chatting with you too.

I will probably be seeing Bob next month when Allman Brothers Band plays in Toronto. He usually shows up when I come to town and give him a call. We most recently visited at the show Robben did in Toronto last year, but we keep in touch regularly by e-mail and phone.
He often sends me demos of new material and/or projects he's involved in.
Most currently that would be his band Cats And Dogs (available thru the Canadian Bullseye Records site) including former April Wine and Mashmakan and Segarini members.
I don't remember if I mentioned that Bullseye is planning on releasing a long overdue retrospective of his career (Family Tree, Roxy, Wackers, Dudes, Segarini, etc.) later this year.
In addition, there's a collaberative side project release available as The Anger Brothers with several other top Canadian artisits.
He's also been working on the much anticipated (by those of us who are into him, anyway Wink

) follow up to "Gotta Have Pop", entitled "Grand Pop". He's very excited about it.

As for the Tonkers, Robben likes the sound of Tonkers but, especially with his Dumble cabinet, they are just so loud that we are experimenting with Eminence to try to find a way of quieting them without losing anything in the tone and response.
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JackD · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject:

I've got my Tonkers in a Bogner 2x12 shiva open back cabinet. This cabinet is mostly open (like a fender twin). I think it helps a little with the loundess.

JohnnyZ · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:39 am Post subject:

Aeolian · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:09 am Post subject:

guitarboy_02451 · New Member Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 3

I noticed that Robben is using a Dr.Z Z-Best cab. Dr.Z stated that the one shipped to Robben has the standard config of Celestion Vintage 30 and a Celestion GH30.

Did Robben replace the Celestions for Tonker's in the Z-Best 2x12?

Daved · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:21 am Post subject:

Aeolian · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject:

Dr.Z has a picture of Robben playing though one of his cabs in some backline situation. For someone who makes decent gear, it's a kind of disapointingly shaddy implication of endorsement.
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Daved · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:33 pm Post subject:

The only Z cabinet I am aware of Robben ever using, was about 3 years ago when we flew into a gig in the midwest somewhere (Wisconsin, maybe) and found that the speaker in Robben's Dumble O/D combo had a glitch in the surround that produced some distortion. A Z-cab was offered, along with a couple other brand cabs, to get us thru the one show. The Z-cab was not a sound Robben would normally use, but it sounded decent and was selected for use, so Robben, as a 'thank you', agreed to pose with it for the person who lent it to us, for their own memory, but "not for publicity or endorsement use".

I would hope not, but IF that photo is being used to 'endorse' the Z-cab, then Robben was obviously lied to again.
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frank0936 · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:59 am Post subject: Z cab

Daved, I just went to Dr. Z's website. Under the section on speaker cabs there is a picture of Robben with the cab in the background. The caption just says it is Robben playing through the speaker cab. That certainly would at least imply and endorsement to me. That's pretty shoddy.
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johan · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:19 am Post subject:

can't remember who took that pic. tonemandan?? i remember it just as daved put it. the dumble had a speaker failure and somebody handed him a z-best cab. great cab i'm sure but that was probably the first and last time robben used the zbest cab.

Daved · Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject:

Yes, as I remember it, TonemanDan did take the photo. Dan himself was a very pleasant and straight ahead kinda guy... very helpful and friendly, which is why Robben agreed to pose for the picture.
If I remember correctly, he is friends with Z and I'm sure that any use of that photo on Z's site was not his intention when the photo was actually taken.
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stevew · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:28 am Post subject: Segarini

Nice to hear about Bob's stuff coming out. I'll look for it.

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