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1935 Art Deco at some of its finest: No. 168 - Griffith Observatory- (click on the photo for information)
A city of Contrast. A center of entertainment. A center of music. A center of cool trendy things and wealth? The city with the highest homeless population in the United States of America.
A little more information
The two main activities in my life: Helping the hungry in the late hours of the night and helping guitar players sound better one amp at a time.
I always try to remember that in order to do good one has to take action and actually do something.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I have watched the city and Southern California change for well over half a century.
I can be found on facebook at www.facebook.com/mylesr or on twitter at www.twitter.com/myles111us
I always try to remember that in order to do good one has to take action and actually do something.
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I have watched the city and Southern California change for well over half a century.
I can be found on facebook at www.facebook.com/mylesr or on twitter at www.twitter.com/myles111us
As of late 2019 the music related links and prints noted on this page which had their links to by GAB (Guitar Amplifier Blueprinting) website are no longer accessible. I grew weary of updating my GAB website and let it go away. You can contact me on Facebook. Saunders Stewart Models continues full operation but we are not accepting new clients without a referral.
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1935 Art Deco at some of its finest: No. 168 - Griffith Observatory- (click on the photo for information)
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About Me
- myles111us
- I started this blog on December 13, 2009 to raise awareness on the homeless situation which is growing due to the current economic situation in this country. Two priorities at this period in my life are helping the homeless on the streets of Los Angeles and helping musicians sound better one amp at a time.
Who am I?
It is said that a picture is speaks a thousand words. Here are over three thousand random photos in a slide show. This is what I do, who I know, where I go.
An emotionally draining slideshow which mixes art, whimsy, low production values, a general lack of composition, sexual tension, nausea and the feeling of foolishness you have if you can watch the entire show from beginning to end.
What could be better than an album of nothing but low resolution shots taken with my cellphone (and a few from friends cellphones as well) ... and then, take these low resolution photos and upload them in real time to facebook where the quality and size is reduced even more?
Why I do what I do
To the folks who ask why I do what I do.
For many decades I worked in the corporate sector for very large companies. I worked many hours each week.
On some occasions I actually felt as if I made a change in a life. I could help somebody in their career. I could teach somebody something technical. Those sorts of things.
40-60 hours a week or more was generally not all that rewarding other than the friends I made along the way and the occasional change as I was able to make a difference.
I worked hard to make changes in my own life as most of us do. I made money to buy a house, raise a family. Family and friends are one side of our lives. The outside world is another.
I now have two main "jobs" each day. One is to help guitarists sound better, one amp at a time. I help folks in the music business and pass on what I have learned over decades walking this planet. I also try to help other people who are building their own career. That is one of the joys of being my age. You can help those on their path of building their own lives.
My second "job" is helping the homeless on the streets on Los Angeles. Five or ten hours on the street each week helping people makes more of a direct impact on more people than a month of work in my old life. Whether I feed people a snack, listen to what they have to say, give them a card from http://www.urm.org/ or walk them down to Union Rescue Mission I feel I am making life a little better for somebody.
In order to do something good one generally has to do something as in perform some sort of action. Los Angeles has the highest homeless population in the nation. Perhaps I feel as if I needed to do something.
For many decades I worked in the corporate sector for very large companies. I worked many hours each week.
On some occasions I actually felt as if I made a change in a life. I could help somebody in their career. I could teach somebody something technical. Those sorts of things.
40-60 hours a week or more was generally not all that rewarding other than the friends I made along the way and the occasional change as I was able to make a difference.
I worked hard to make changes in my own life as most of us do. I made money to buy a house, raise a family. Family and friends are one side of our lives. The outside world is another.
I now have two main "jobs" each day. One is to help guitarists sound better, one amp at a time. I help folks in the music business and pass on what I have learned over decades walking this planet. I also try to help other people who are building their own career. That is one of the joys of being my age. You can help those on their path of building their own lives.
My second "job" is helping the homeless on the streets on Los Angeles. Five or ten hours on the street each week helping people makes more of a direct impact on more people than a month of work in my old life. Whether I feed people a snack, listen to what they have to say, give them a card from http://www.urm.org/ or walk them down to Union Rescue Mission I feel I am making life a little better for somebody.
In order to do something good one generally has to do something as in perform some sort of action. Los Angeles has the highest homeless population in the nation. Perhaps I feel as if I needed to do something.
Union Rescue Mission - What they do.
I talk a lot about Union Rescue Mission on this blog. I also talk a lot about them on facebook. I talk about them on my GAB website.
Many of my friends have become friends with Union Rescue Mission and members of their staff. I am sure many of you feel the same way I do about what they do and are a little bit better for knowing them.
videos you may learn a bit more about the work these folks do.
videos you may learn a bit more about the work these folks do.
Links to folks who change the lives of people every day
Links to other social sites on the homeless, economy and more.
Los Angeles on a wider scale
- Art Deco Society of Los Angeles
- Best Auto Body Repair - Ultimate Finishes Mobile Auto Body
- Big Orange Landmarks - Los Angeles Landmarks
- Chinatown Los Angeles
- City Declared Monuments
- Downtown Art Walk Los Angeles
- Downtown L.A. Walking Tour from USC
- Downtown nightlife calendar if you have money
- Esotouric Tours
- L.A. Food Trucks
- L.A. Metro - Public transportation I use all the time
- L.A. Metro - the latest news
- LAist
- Los Angeles Conservancy
- Los Angeles Downtown News
- Los Angeles on Wikipedia
Some of the Coolest Amps, Guitars, Tech stuff Today
- 65 Amps
- Amp Show - LA, NY and more
- Bludotone Amp Works
- Bogner Amplification
- Carr Amplifiers
- Colby Amplifiers
- Cornford Amplifiers
- Dr. Z Amps
- Falbo Guitars
- Fargen Amps
- Fuchs Audio Technology
- Hayes Amplification
- Matchless Amplifiers
- Metro Amp - the best in Plexi stuff
- Michael DeTemple Guitars
- Phil Jones Audio
- Pierson Amplifiers
- Red Rooster Guitars
- Rivera Amplifiers
- THD Electronics
- The GC1 Guitar
- Victoria Amplifier
More music links for tech info, tubes, speakers or just cool music related stuff
- 0 Guitar Amplifier Blueprinting 0
- 00 My column in the Ask The Experts area on the Dr. Z Amp Forum 00
- 000 Feel Free to Ask Myles at Guitar Player Magazine 000
- AEA Ribbon Mics. Wes Dooley. Superb.
- All About Circuits
- Amp Show - Since 2005
- Atomic Records - very cool place!
- Audio Specialist - HiFi service and vintage sales for over 3 decades!
- Audio Tubes - tube vendor and good tech info
- Bills Ham Radio www server
- Celestion Speakers
- Classic Amp Service - My Favorite Amp Folks
- Colossal Cable - outstanding quality and tone
- Doug Preston - Doug's Tubes *
- Duncan Amps
- Eminence Speakers
- Fender Amp Field Guide
- Ferg's Amp Shop - Nashville
- Frank's Electron Tube Pages
- Free Information Society - many schematics
- Fretted Americana
- Great NY Amp Tech - Blackie Pagano
- Hermida Audio Technology
- Intex Cables - outstanding quality and tone
- Jensen Speakers
- KCA NOS Tubes *
- Lighthouse Electric - Tube Education and More
- MLS Covers - Very cool amp covers and more
- Royer Labs - superb microphones
- The Amp Show
- The Valve Wizard
- Tube Depot *
- Tube reference database
- Tusk Buffer - spectacular guitar picks
- V-BoutiqueUSA - Great custom cabs
- Vacuum Tube Rectifier Information
- Vintage Tube Services - a great historical reference
- Wattkins Amp Forums
- Weber Speakers
Vacuum Tube Data Sheets
- 12AT7 Philips
- 12AT7 Tung Sol
- 12AU7 G.E.
- 12AX7 G.E
- 12AX7 Marconi
- 12AX7 Tung Sol
- 12AY7 G.E.
- 5751 G.E.
- 5751 RCA
- 5751 Tung Sol
- 5814 G.E.
- 5881 Tung Sol
- 5AR4 / GZ34 Amperex
- 5AR4 / GZ34 G.E.
- 5AR4 / GZ34 Philips
- 6072 select 12AY7 G.E.
- 6146B RCA (early Ampeg SVT)
- 6201 select 12AT7 G.E.
- 6550 G.E.
- 6550 RCA
- 6550 Svetlana
- 6BQ5 / EL84 RCA
- 6CA7 Tung Sol
- 6K6 RCA
- 6L6 RCA 19 watt
- 6L6 Svetlana
- 6L6 Sylvania coke bottle 19 watt
- 6L6GC G.E. - modern 30 watt 6L6
- 6L6WGB Tung Sol
- 6V6GT RCA
- 6V6GTA G.E.
- 6V6GTA RCA
- 7025 G.E.
- 7025 RCA
- 7027 JJ
- 7027 RCA
- 7027A RCA
- 7189 Sylvania
- 7189A G.E.
- 7408 RCA
- 7591 JJ
- 7868 RCA
- E34LS Penta 30 watt
- E813CC (12AX7/ECC83) Blackburn TechTube
- E83CC
- ECC803S -2 Telefunken
- ECC803S Telefunken
- ECC83 / 12AX7 Philips
- ECC83 RFT
- EF86 / 6267 Mazda
- EF86 / 6267 Philips
- EF86 / 6267 Philips - Mullard - Amperex
- EL34 Mullard
- EL34 Philips
- EL34 Svetlana Winged C
- EL34 Telefunken
- EL37 Mullard
- EL37 Mullard 2
- EL84 Brimar
- EL84 E.I.
- EL84 JJ
- EL84 Mullard
- EL84 Philips
- KT120 Tung Sol
- KT66 GEC
- KT66 Marconi
- KT66HP Groove Tubes
- KT77 Genelex
- KT88 Genelex Gold Lion
- KT88 Genelex issue 2
- KT88 Penta Labs / JJ
- KT88S Penta 50 watt
- RCA Receiving tube manual
A Few Amplifier and Pedal Schematics - many from my era
- Ampeg B12N
- Ampeg SVT 6146B output tubes
- Ampeg V4
- Ampeg VT22
- Ampeg VT40
- Boss CE-1
- Fender 1959 Tweed Bassman
- Fender 5E3 Narrow Panel Tweed Deluxe
- Fender 6G15 Reverb
- Fender Blues Deluxe
- Fender Blues Junior
- Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue
- Fender Dual Professional
- Fender Hot Rod Deville / Deluxe
- Fender ProSonic
- Fender Super Reverb Reissue
- Fender ToneMaster
- Fender Twin Reverb Reissue
- Fender VibroKing
- Fender Vibrosonic
- Fender Vibroverb AB763
- Gibson Guitar Serial Numbers
- Groove Tubes STP (G)
- Magnatone 260A
- Magnatone 450A
- Magnatone 460
- Magnatone 480
- Marshall 1959 100 watt
- Marshall JCM 2000 bias instructions
- Marshall M1987 50 watt
- Matchless Chieftan Reverb
- Matchless Hurricane
- Matchless Lightning
- Matchless Spitfire
- Matchless Tornado
- Mesa Boogie Mk 2
- Mesa Boogie Mk. 1
- Mesa Boogie Mk. 1B
- Sunn 100S
- Sunn 200S
- Sunn 200S 2
- Sunn 200S Power Section
- Voc AC50
Some of my favorite places to eat
- Bossa Nova Brazilian Cuisine
- Buchanan Arms the Restaurant
- Colori Kitchen
- Don Diego Mexican Restaurant
- El Tapatío
- Hop Woo BBQ and Seafood Restaurant
- Il Capriccio on Vermont
- Kayf's Kabob House
- King Taco - East Los Angeles
- Korean Kitchen Hibachi Barbeque
- La Maria Restaurant
- Nicole's Gourmet Foods
- Pasadena Sandwich Company
- Philippe The Original Restaurant
- Skaf's Grill
- Taste on Melrose
- Thai Room Restaurant
- The Foundry On Melrose
- Tigeorges' Chicken
- Toshi Sushi
Blog Traffic - Total Post Reads
This blog was created in December 2009. Statistics were enabled on July 1, 2010. From July 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013 there were more than 12 million reads of this blog.
As of 9/14/2018 there has been 36,395,500 reads. There were 189,708 visitors last month, August 2018.
Posts are also seen on facebook, twitter, google buzz, blogger, digg it, atom and many other services that have opted to distribute my antics for reasons that are at times a mystery to me.
Thanks for following, thanks for reading and thank you for sending the link of this site to your friends.
Myles
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Links to friends and great products
- Carl Verheyen - You have heard him countless times
- Cupcapes of Falmouth - friend and great baker
- Guns Direct - Burbank
- King Taco - amazing stuff to eat
- Most friendly sporting clays range on the planet
- Sam Hunter Art
- Steve Trovato - friend and great player
- Stubb's Bar-B-Q - outstanding people!
- The Daily Grill - Thanks for 2010 Veteran's Day URM lunch
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A special thanks to the following folks who have supported my efforts directly
I would like to take a moment to thank some very special folks who have directly supported my efforts with the homeless of the City of Los Angeles.
Stephen Boykin, Leonard Rodriguez, David Mendenhall, Joe Gorfinkle, Lee Flier, Mike Franceschini - Classic Amp Repair, Brad Leabo, Rick Skillman, Diane Rabinowitz, Gary Carr, Tim McDuff, Sheldon Gomberg, Michael Alexander, Kimberly Rose, Bonnie and Alan, Betty Edwards, Laura Forster, Hans Egil Løe, Dennis Tudor, Alec McGlashan III, Sean Thompson, Gregory Faust, Don Buchanan, Natalie Rose, Dave Asmussen, Tom Breitsch, Keith Aylward, Gregg White from the Dr. Z Amp Forum, Mary Ellen Alltizer Gale, Gouv Cadwalader, Simon Higgs/Wattkins Amp Forums, Buddy Whittington, 'Oldster and the Knuckleheads', Frank "BritInvasion" Quarracino, Harvey Reams and Family,Mike Giliberto,Ryan and Vicki Horyza and family, Vickie Benson and Rick Benson and family, Joseph Glosz, Bill Shea from the Dr. Z Forum, Gary from the Dr. Z Forum, Ron from the Dr. Z Forum, Paul Girolamo from the Dr. Z Forum,Eric Ambel from the Dr. Z Forum, Charles J Adkins from the Dr. Z Forum, Paul Toracinta from the Dr. Z Forum, Jeffrey Thomas Adkins from the Dr. Z Forum, Doungvannak JB Keo from the Dr. Z Forum, Helmi from the Dr. Z Forum, Lee Carriker from the Dr. Z Forum, Patrick & Michelle Kerrin from the Dr. Z Forum
Tammy Knight-Gibbons (www.cupcapesfalmouth.com), Michael Zaite (www.drzamps.com), Loni Specter (www.ampshow.com), Reinhold Bogner (www.bogneramplification.com), Matchless Amplifier / Phil Jamison (www.matchlessamplifiers.com) Marc Ferguson (http://fergsampshop.com/), David Hayes (www.hayesamplification.com), George Metropoulos ( www.metroamp.com ), Jason King (www.internationalsportingclays.com), Ludovic Pierson and family (www.pierson-amps.com), Dan Boul and family (www.65amps.com), Mark Baier (www.victoriaamp.com), Lars H Haugen (www.myspace.com/larshhaugen), Arne K. Hast (www.vintagegitar.no), Robert Wood (www.transformerdesignandsupply.com), Robert Farwell (www.thegc1guitar.com), Sam Hunter (www.samhunterart.com) Stubb's Bar-B-Q Sauce and Products (www.stubbsbbq.com), The Daily Grill (www.dailygrill.com)
Andy Bales and the staff of Union Rescue Mission, Jacqui Groseth, Alexander Cornejo II. Located in downtown Los Angeles, URM is the oldest and largest mission in the nation. The staff and entire organization at URM make me feel that my own small efforts to help the homeless have some degree of value. These folks serve over 3,000 meals a day (over a million meals a year) 365 days a year three meals a day. When I feel that the end goal seems to be like one pushing against the incoming tide and feel beaten down I think of Andy Bales and his staff and find a bit more drive to continue. Look at their website to see how many services these folks offer. www.urm.org
Stephen Boykin, Leonard Rodriguez, David Mendenhall, Joe Gorfinkle, Lee Flier, Mike Franceschini - Classic Amp Repair, Brad Leabo, Rick Skillman, Diane Rabinowitz, Gary Carr, Tim McDuff, Sheldon Gomberg, Michael Alexander, Kimberly Rose, Bonnie and Alan, Betty Edwards, Laura Forster, Hans Egil Løe, Dennis Tudor, Alec McGlashan III, Sean Thompson, Gregory Faust, Don Buchanan, Natalie Rose, Dave Asmussen, Tom Breitsch, Keith Aylward, Gregg White from the Dr. Z Amp Forum, Mary Ellen Alltizer Gale, Gouv Cadwalader, Simon Higgs/Wattkins Amp Forums, Buddy Whittington, 'Oldster and the Knuckleheads', Frank "BritInvasion" Quarracino, Harvey Reams and Family,Mike Giliberto,Ryan and Vicki Horyza and family, Vickie Benson and Rick Benson and family, Joseph Glosz, Bill Shea from the Dr. Z Forum, Gary from the Dr. Z Forum, Ron from the Dr. Z Forum, Paul Girolamo from the Dr. Z Forum,Eric Ambel from the Dr. Z Forum, Charles J Adkins from the Dr. Z Forum, Paul Toracinta from the Dr. Z Forum, Jeffrey Thomas Adkins from the Dr. Z Forum, Doungvannak JB Keo from the Dr. Z Forum, Helmi from the Dr. Z Forum, Lee Carriker from the Dr. Z Forum, Patrick & Michelle Kerrin from the Dr. Z Forum
Tammy Knight-Gibbons (www.cupcapesfalmouth.com), Michael Zaite (www.drzamps.com), Loni Specter (www.ampshow.com), Reinhold Bogner (www.bogneramplification.com), Matchless Amplifier / Phil Jamison (www.matchlessamplifiers.com) Marc Ferguson (http://fergsampshop.com/), David Hayes (www.hayesamplification.com), George Metropoulos ( www.metroamp.com ), Jason King (www.internationalsportingclays.com), Ludovic Pierson and family (www.pierson-amps.com), Dan Boul and family (www.65amps.com), Mark Baier (www.victoriaamp.com), Lars H Haugen (www.myspace.com/larshhaugen), Arne K. Hast (www.vintagegitar.no), Robert Wood (www.transformerdesignandsupply.com), Robert Farwell (www.thegc1guitar.com), Sam Hunter (www.samhunterart.com) Stubb's Bar-B-Q Sauce and Products (www.stubbsbbq.com), The Daily Grill (www.dailygrill.com)
Andy Bales and the staff of Union Rescue Mission, Jacqui Groseth, Alexander Cornejo II. Located in downtown Los Angeles, URM is the oldest and largest mission in the nation. The staff and entire organization at URM make me feel that my own small efforts to help the homeless have some degree of value. These folks serve over 3,000 meals a day (over a million meals a year) 365 days a year three meals a day. When I feel that the end goal seems to be like one pushing against the incoming tide and feel beaten down I think of Andy Bales and his staff and find a bit more drive to continue. Look at their website to see how many services these folks offer. www.urm.org