Hey marty, thogh i know you use or have used alot of aps, do you ever use solid state amps at all? ive alwase been tube fiend, but i hear there are some pretty nice solid state amps coming through especially these days... one ofthem i saw was the new fender metal head... and the new randall vmax that has a solidstate and tube opreamps (i think it was the vmax, i may be wrong)