Benee Wafers said:
Hi Dave.
So all three of you used KOCH amps. Whose choice was that to make or was it a sponsor thing? I mean lets face it the boys would plug into a box of Kellogs Cornflakes if the price was right?
Benee Wafers
I am very fortunate to be the Koch rep for Ontario and I used my own personal Koch rig that I purchased.
Randy is a Koch endorser and he requested and purchased the rig he used.
I arranged for our lead guitarist, Michael Zweig, to have a rig identical to mine and Randy's courtesy of Audionova, the North American distributor of Koch amplifiers. Mike loved it but after the tour, it was shipped back to the warehouse in Montreal.
Here's a news flash for you:
nobody gets free amps and
nobody gets paid to use a certain amp - I don't care what you've heard or what guitar tech told you - it just doesn't happen.
Endorsers get a discount off the wholesale price - that's it.
As you can imagine, someone like Randy Bachman can have his pick of any amp in the world but if it doesn't deliver the tone he's looking for and that he's famous for, he won't use it.
I can also tell you that all 3 rigs bounced around in the back of a tractor trailer across Canada and did 17 shows, were run hard, put away wet and performed flawlessly with the exception of 1 blown fuse!