Wow…Nothin!

Can’t keep stuff in….Ghettos, Pork N Beans, Relic drives due in soon.
Let me know if you’d like to special order or be notified of anything.

Thanks!
Mike

Hope all is well with everyone.
We’ve been plugging along here at Phatdaddy.
Lots of cool amps and pedals going through.
Thunderbolts, and my own new personal Hellfire has been tickling my fancy for sure.

Currently can’t keep pedals in stock, so please email me if there’s something you’d like to have, or be notified on it’s arrival.

Thanks for everyone’s support. New products soon from Greer and Reinhardt.
Also we’re now a Lava cable dealer, and stocking the pedalboard kits. Email me if you need anything!

Also here’s Joe K’s new T Bolt rig!

And the Ghetto stomps are now gone…more coming, please let me know if you’d like to be on the notification list. The Ghetto is very popular lately with guys like Rick Holmestrom and Junior Watson using them!

In stock now, Greer Green Giant overdrive.

Coming soon to stock - - >
Greer Tonesmuggler
Greer Relic Drive
Greer Brown Bomber pedals.

Also soon to be available, Greertone speakers. Really great sounding ‘modern twist’ on the old recipe M and H magnet British speakers. Nick did a great job with his contractor manufacturing these!!

Don’t forget, we can special order anything you need from Nick Greer or Bob Reinhardt, please let me know how I can help !

Thanks everyone, and happy spring!

Hi Gang!

March is here….and you know what that means…I”m sneazing like a fool.
Allergies! LOL So what better to do than stay in, or go out to a dark bar and rip some tunes.

Hope the new year is treating you all well.

Couple things… New mailing address for Phatdaddy.

1647 Willow Pass Road #127
Concord, California 94520

I’ll get the ever incredible web guy to change it soon.

Also in stock now….Ghetto Stomp and Green Giant pedals.
Hoping to see some Brown Bombers, Relic drives, and Sonic booms soon!!

Some interesting new stuff coming from Nick Greer soon, plus a new look to some of the pedals. Look for a web update soon.

New from the backwoods of Virginia, Bob Reinhardt has a few new amps out.

A “Jimmy Page Hiwatt’ tribute amp called the ‘Fat Albert’ after Zepplin’s Albert Hall performances…also the new SHG High gain amp is going to be available soon.

Serious Zep and Stupid high gain done the reinhardt way?

These are going to be SICK!! As always, Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to assist in your tone search!!

All the best,
Big Mike

The ‘Fat Albert’

Current Stock at Phatdaddy:
2 Greer Ghetto Stomps
1 Greer Green Giant

Coming soon for customers already on order….Studio 10’s, Marauder, Hellfire 35 from Greer: Storm 33 SVT w/ Matching cab from Reinhardt!

Sorry it’s been quiet on my end, but I’m still plugging along….a few more studio 10’s have been in and out, with more spoken for in the works.
Some great new pedals coming out of Nick Greer’s crazy mind..

The Brown Bomber - basically your brown fender concert on the edge of explosion!

The Sucker Punch - A great hot rodded JCM Marshall tone

and a few other things cooking soon….

Casa Des Reinhardt has come up with the new ‘Sultan’ amp designed with input from Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits….and more stuff like the new Bass Amp, and a High Gain amp in the works for those into the Broootalz!

More pics and info soon. Let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see!

best,

Mike

Hope this finds you all well!!

Just a short note….if you’re on the mailing list you got the long version!

Watch for website updates, but new pedals and amps from Greer coming soon, and new Reinhardt amps including the new bass amp!! All tube 100 watts.

Ghetto Stomp pedals from Nick Greer are hard to keep in! Be patient, I’m trying to get stock going, but they go as fast as they come in!

Also Reinhardt News…Mark Knopfler (solo, Dire Straits) is now using the Storm 33 head on his new tour!!! Great news for Bob.

In stock now….
Greer Gold Nugget
Greer Easy C

Greer amps are currently running approximately 6 mos on custom order.
Reinhardt Amps are running around 10 weeks on Custom Order.

Thought I’d give a quick lowdown on the amp show.

Really it was a blast. Sharing the booth with Ron Thorn’s amazing guitars, was not a bad thing. LOLOL

Nick Greer sent out the new Hellfire 35. This amp is stunning. Hiwattish cleans, and great 70s style overdrive,
it was the most widely auditioned Greer amp in the booth. I currently have this one until Next week, and Nick’s
given the go ahead to sell it until Tuesday. An amazing amp, it’ll likely be the only black/orange/tan striped version made.
One off for the amp show, and only the second Hellfire made, after Nick’s personal proto.
If you’re interested, email me and grab it fast!

Reinhardt land was a ball as well. Bob sent out a Jester and Storm for people to hear,
plus we had a V50 and 18 with power scaling in the booth. All were fabulous but the storm really
had it dialed for the higher gain rock tones, and the power scaling works phenominally well.
Still have the V50 in stock, red with white swoosh. This has some demo time on it, so email me if interested,
and there will be a special amp show discount. Great classic British tones, with plenty of old school dirt on tap.

Currently in stock
Reihardt V50
Greer Hellfire 35
Greer Gold Nugget OD/Boost
Greer Easy C Overdrive
Demo Batch o ass 2 (email for discount, this has made the rounds as a demo and has velcro on the bottom).
Next week, we’ll have Ghetto Stomps back in as well.

Also I’m proud to announce Phatdaddy will be a V-Pick dealer here soon as well.
I’m addicted to these little suckers!

Thanks for your support,
Please let me know if I can help you with your tone!

Wow. Crazy month.

2 Studio 10’s came in and out, Thanks Aldwyn and Roy! See Roy’s testimonial on the Studio 10 page, I gotta get this guy to write my copy! LOL Glad you two are digging them. Mike in PA’s is up next. Killer little amps!

Chris’ Tuxedo T Bolt left today, didn’t nab a picture dangit, but it’s just like Gilbert’s from a couple months back. beautiful. Nick really has this amp down, still my favorite in the line. Just a stellar all around amp.

Ampshow Coming! We’ll be sharing a booth at the LA Amp Show (In Van Nuys) with Ron Thorn guitars on October 6th. Looking forward to it! We SHOULD have the new Greer amp the ‘Hellfire’ to show. Dual 6L6 in cathode bias pushing around 35 ‘nick watts’ with a Special amps show only color. Should be great!

We’ll also have a nice selection of Reinhard amps to demo. Should be a Vintage 50, Ampzilla and 18. Possibly a storm, as well as Greer Cam18, Thunderbolt 30, Hellfire, Studio 10 and a couple other special things….

Also FYI My buddy Greg is selling his NTG15. This is the very first NTG to leave the Greer Laboratory. Email me if you are interested and I’ll put you in touch with Greg. it’s a stellar amp, just a bit too much volume for his apartment.

Thanks again for everyone’s support!

Well, my first Ampzilla came through, wow what an amp. Fantastic tones. Bob really put together a great package with it. Ch.1 very ‘wreckish’ cleans and light OD, and Ch2 is like he best modded marshall you ever heard. Lusting for a Jubilee Marshall? Forget it after hearing this one!!! Sweet amp!!

Paul from TGP and Thorn Forums will take delivery on Friday, and I’m sure he’ll be rocking out shortly thereafter! Loving my favorite tolex combination of red and white ’starsky and hutch’ colors too!

Getting ready for the ampshow, should be fantastic! October 6 at the airtel hotel in Van Nuys, Phatdaddy will be sharing a booth with Ron Thorn guitars, so come bye and see us and check out some amps and pedals, with the worlds greatest guitars.

Bob Reinardt will make sure we’re set, with a Ampzilla, and I’ll also have a Vintage 50, and ‘the 18′ head to check out.

Coming from Nick Greer, will be the release of a brand new model the Hellfire, available in orange and black with tan stripes for order at the amp show only! The amp will be available in all other colors after the show. Even if you can’t make it, we can hook you up if the order’s placed that weekend.

We’ll have a Cam18, T Bolt 30, Hellfire, Studio 10, and another surprise or two in store!

Thanks again for the support everyone, running light on pedals and amps right now, but we’re doing well on stock of Curt Mangan Strings.

Paul’s Ampzilla!

I had an awesome time. Nick’s a bud for sure, but it was beyond cool to watch the guy work; play prototypes and and see the ‘evolution’ of the amps and pedals.

Mostly I concentrated on playing and hearing the amps I haven’t had the pleasure to yet, so I’ll detail a few.

Special 20:

This really amazed me. I’ve called it the ‘American Cousin’ to the Cam, but it’s really RADICALLY different. Non master volume, fixed bias, and a FAC control that changes the tone Stack. Very interactve with the tone control. This to me sounded vaguely reminiscent of the Brown/Tweed deluxe type tones, but capable of the most fantastic chime and shimmer. The Pentode preamp tube (similar to an EF86 but more stable) really made it extremely pedal friendly, and just so enveloping. The tone just sucked you in. Really a bold overdrive, or a killer clean. Again very american voiced, but radically different depending on the FAC control. I played it with both 6v6 and 5881s. (It’s fixed bias, so it’s NOT plug and play like the CAM).

Thunderchief:

What can I say. This is the newest amp in the greer line, and I was really taken with it. To me, it sounded like the best AC30 ever, but with more girth and thump to it. Plenty of that great chime, but as it an quad 6v6, it had that OOMPH to it that EL84s can sometime lack. The boost switch on the back really added a nice dimension to it. Runs all 12ax7’s but was really open as if it did run a pentode preamp. Neat trick. Interesting design, and very versitile tone controls. Impressive.

Maurader:

This was one I was REALLY dying to hear. The Maurader is a subtle 35 watts. What I mean is, you sorta think it would be louder, but it gets away from you. It’s not ‘painful’ loud, so it’s really deceiving how loud it is. With a strat or tele, it was like SRV in a box. You instantly got that great texas tone, which is what Nick was going for. This was with 5881 tubes. With Nick’s R8 it was a different beast. Sorta equal parts JTM45 and Super. Fantastic set of tones, and a full rich clean.

Rev50:

I think this is Nick’s favorite amp! Sounds like the perfect marriage of HIWATT and Marshall. With Nickism’s all over it!

The Tone controls work like gain stages to push the amp into saturation. BIG CLEANS or HUGE OVERDRIVES abound in this sucker. Its a serious BEAST! With P90’s I was feeling some serious ‘Who’ Vibe, but it was really more versitile than that. Mindblowing how the tones worked. Each tone overdrove it’s set of frequecies or cleaned them up. As usual, back off on the guitar volume to clean up further, dig in for more meat!

There were also a couple protos I’m not at liberty to talk about yet, some amazing stuff. Nick’s a young cat, but he’s really got a ’sky’s the limit’ sort of attitude about his builds. It’s very impressive.

Also got to hear some other great pedals. Buttertone, Razor Burn and some prototype stuff.

The only thing better than spending a week with your buddy in Georgia, is when that buddy makes some killer toyz!

Thanks again to Nick and Serena for the Southern Hospitality, the beautiful ladies of Athens GA. WOW. I’m moving!

Any questions folks, I’m really excited to have a better handle on some of this stuff I hadn’t played yet.

Make sure you come see me and Ron Thorn at the amp show, I’ll have both Nick’s amps, and Bob Reinhardt’s killer amps and a selection of pedals!

Nick and I the morning of the trip home.

Current Stock:

WB Pickups NOS WIRE VTP and VTPH 67-07 Humbuckers with NOS wire!
Greer Relic Drive RD2. Latest Relic Drive update, this is a Klon/Landgraff/Eternity killer!
Greer Ghetto Stomp pedal
Reinhardt Vintage 50 in Red. Running KT66 tubes. HUGE tones!!!
Curt Mangan Strings