Yes I am, please don’t hold it against me !!! kind regards, Vincent Gallo (longtime EH user and lover)

Hi Fender&EHX4ever;,

GREAT SITE btw. I have been using EH gear since my first band days in the 70’s. In the band GRAY (with bandmate artist Jean Michele Basquiat) my entire sound was basically five out of tune strings left on a cheap Japanese guitar running through EH effects including a digital delay or what was sometimes called a 2 second delay (mine has crapped out many times and I would love to find another if anyone is selling ).

Photos of my live shows are rare and not very detailed. However there is something I will post here someday soon, which may be of interest to this cool group.

I own pretty much everything EH made and with them I reverse engineered every effect to create a modular guitar effect system of just EH effects. The basic guts of each EH effect have been mounted to an aluminum chassis and then to a faceplate in a manner similar to MOOG and Buchla modulars. I made multi panels, input panels, mixer panels, and out panels of my own designs as well as one panel that is a master supply with various voltage taps. Each effect has a mechanical relay engage and disengage bypass. I used super high quality pots and jacks and added op amps to secure voltages were that would make an improvement. The panels are all one of two sizes and can slide in the custom cabinet rack in any order. It is a 1/4″ patching system. I still need to find one more Solid State Reverb and Random Tone Generator to add to the system as I have several other effects which I use in multiples and would like to do the same with these. I would also love to find backups of my Echo 600 and Digital Delays units as they both got very hammered over the years and are becoming quite difficult to repair. I hope if anyone here is ever willing to sell any of those 4 units that they please let me know.

My interest in the Mike Matthews amps is related to buying one directly from Mike and the memory of that. I lost that original amp and would love to replace it. Mine had X 4-10″ speakers, though I would purchase an X 2 -10″ version. I would love to find any Mike Matthews amp or speaker cabinet stuff. I would not claim they are great sounding, and boy do they need constant technical attention to keep them quiet, but I have a special connection with them. I hope someone here can help.

Did you guys know EH had their own store next to Manny’s on 48th Street in NYC around 1981? It was a very, very narrow shop (the thinnest I have ever seen). That’s were I purchased my Digital Delay and eventually a 16 second Delay. They were not cheap then and I remember the amount of my yearly income it required to get those was pretty high.

They mention in the film i was in the band with Jean. I do not appear in documentaries though and rejected Tamara’s invitation to appear. I did some music around 1980 that was used in another Basquiat film called Downtown 81. Very EH heavy.