Marshall JCM 2000: "This One Goes To '5'"
Jeff Krenn of These Green Eyes -- who were playing that night in the back room of a New York City pawn shop, looks like -- isn't some sort of power-hungry demagogojevic. He's perfectly happy with the amount of power he has, i.e., 50 watts of Marshall JCM 2000 crunch. I tried to council him otherwise, letting him know that there was a lot of money to be made filling the amp-role were he to decide to upgrade. It's all right here in this wire-tap transcript released by Patrick Fitzgerald's office yesterday:
“You’ve got this thing and it’s [expletive deleted] golden and, uh, uh, you can't just give it up for nothing. You're not gonna [expletive deleted] do it.”
JEFF GREEN: Hi. My name is Jeff, and I play guitar and I sing in These Green Eyes.
I’ve always been a Marshall guy even back when I had a Valvestate amp. It was still Marshall Valvestate, about three years of going through the models and what I’ve decided I really like is the Marshall JCM2000 DSL, and I prefer the 50-watt over the 100 because we never play over four or five and the headroom is just -- it’s the distortion breaks out so much better at a lower volume with a 50-watt amp and plus retubing it is half the price, so it’s a win-win.
GREG MAURO: A win-win billing to do it? [LAUGHING]
JEFF KRENN: [LAUGHING] So I love that amp. I’ve always. I’ve had one previously and then I stopped touring for a while and I bought a 900 combo, and I just never liked it as much. The Marshall’s got -- It’s got four distinct different channels almost like each channel has two different channel settings, so I can get like anything like from the cleanest, almost like a Matchless sounding and then go into like a Plexi all the way to like a gritty 800 or 900 sound and everything in between. It’s really versatile.
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