I have absolutely no idea how my guitar amplifier resembled the outcome of the opening sequence to the film, Back To The Future, where Marty Mcfly (aka Michael J. Fox) turns the volume knobs all the way up on an anormously large amplifier while hanging out in the garage of Dr. Emmitt Brown (also known as Christopher Lloyd. Check out the scene below to refresh your memory:
I can't really understand why I was compelled to act out the following but what's done is done. I've often thought about how funny that scene is and how unrealistic it is. The conclusion of the scene is Michael J. Fox flying across the room because the sound waves from the amplifier were so powerful.
So I turned on my amplifier to the highest volume level, along with my bass and boost knobs all the way up and plugged my guitar cord in. I proceeded, in the same fashion as McFly and I strummed down extremely hard on all six strings and my amplifier cracked and made a loud, searing noise and sort of faded out abruptly. At first I was scared because the sound itself was pretty scary and I was kind of in awe at the fact that my amplifier pretty much just blew up in front of me.
It was destroyed, I thought...and I was right, my amplifier was out of commission. A few obsenities were said and aside from being extremely upset...I was also without a guitar amp. So now I need to buy another amplifier and as a result, my final audio recordings will mostly be acoustic sounding instead of the original format which were to be me playing on my electric guitar. Looks like you got me good this time Mcfly!
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