Building Mesa/Boogie #10 Race Team Stupid is born! Music or racing: it's the Groove Zone we want.
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Playing music or racing - - it's the Flow, the Groove, the Zone that we're seeking where we're fully "living in the moment". Here's how Team Stupid was born on winning the last Palm Springs Grand Prix.
Randall - have you considered writing a book? This is great stuff! Still digging my Mesa Studio preamp as the "main producer of my sound".
Hi Randy! I am absolutely enthralled with your videos, and stories. Great stuff! I love your connecting of "The Flow" to racing, and to music. I was just explaining this to someone a few days ago. When doing anything thing creative (music, writing, artwork, designing, crafting, sports,, hell... even work), I am highly mediocre, at best (and usually suck) when my brain is running the show. When my brain is turned off, and I'm am just acting without thinking, is when the transcendent magic occurs. It was a life changing event, when I figured this out. Thanksyou for bringing up the topic, and for all of your highly entertaining videos. You are one hell of a storyteller!
Randall,
Thank you for taking the time to share your story.
The combustion engine, especially when coupled with an ECU is quite possible the most complete union of physics, engineering and philosophy. Building, tuning and harnessing the ICE is a lifelong pursuit of incredible learning, craftsmanship, tool craft and pure joy.
First! Ty Randall for making the best amps ever. Loving the videos and all the wisdom/stories shared. Much love dude!
Randy,
Great stories about racing. Right on the money about being in the zone. I know the feeling well. There are times when I'm driving the car. There are times when I'm along for the ride. Then, there are times when the car and I become one. One has to clear their mind of all the distractions and clutter to reach that state. I love the part about showing up with your "yard maintenance equipment" and going home with the trophy. That is what racing was all about in the past.
My Mom moved to Palm Springs. So I know what a great place it was in the 80's. I used to go mountain climbing there in the Agua Caliente Indian reservation..Your story about the car race there is spellbinding. And to hear that you won that race is epic! I am a guitar player for the last 50 years and I know what you mean about "getting in the zone". Thank you Randy for this awesome video.
this was a wonderful episode. Well, it turns out our paths cross again, an old friend of mine who used to work for Wilwood engineering in advertising.(I worked for various racing magazines and myself raised vintage British motorcycles.) his name is Allen Nicholas and I believe you guys race together at some point anyway he invited me to circuit of the Americas in October to help him crew on his formula Atlantic car, which was a ball when we spoke recently. I asked him if he knew you and of course he did and I told him my Mesa story that goes back to 1980. and pointed him toward your UA-cam channel love the racing stuff and I’ll be playing my Messa amplifiers this week on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Thanks for doing this.
Randall.....I don't understand why everyone hates the Nomad.....I love mine sooooooooo much.....by the way I use a REVV G4 preamp/overdrive/distortion pedal in combination with Channel 1 clean & Tung-Sol 6L6 GC power tubes & that seems to make the Nomad sound beyond obliterating with or without headphones dude.....I bought it used @ Guitar Center.....worth every penny Randall.....I fucking love it man way to go dude !!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘😈😈😈😈😈-----Sincerely Dave The Shredder : 10 string guitar player located in Overland, MO !!!!!
Great stories Randall! Keep them up! Wish you the
best! Thanks for all the cool amps!
Hey Randy I love listening your car/amps stories before I go to bed ! I love it ! Amazing guy you are ! I want mooooooore !!! 💯✨️🇺🇲 Stay rock ! Hello from France 🇲🇫
Fun and flow and the law of diminishing returns, that'd maybe what the book could be called? My version is riding my bike to the supermarket to get cat food for the strays and building guitar amps from old radios where even the heptodes do stuff! I'm 62 now and way down the bottom, NZ, and I'm real glad I started with skateboards in the early seventies, how flow could take you to edges and live to tell the tale but mostly set up a life where doing one own thing having seen that courage pays in very interesting ways that, somehow, sets the next adventure to explore what, how and where within our own choice. Keep waving the flag Captain!
I really loved your play by play account of your race, and I know that specific race is deeply impressed in your mind because of all your specific details of the actual race day experience! What an emotional feeling of a race.
I did some car racing, but nothing near to your higher levels of speed and race cars.
My current racing is on my prized Gary Fisher mountain bike now!
The “Impoverished Mexican gardener rig” did it for me 😂😂😂😂😂
As always, great stuff.
Randy great to have another fab ramble to watch thank you!!! a nice change yet part of the tone farm story!!!
Hey Randall I love the videos and my Mesa Boogie amps. This is great, right from the giant him self. :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you sir for designing the Rectifier amp; the most versatile, badass amp ever made.
Thanknyoubfor the stories and the laughs!!!
That’s funny ,you talk about Guitar and being in the zone ,that’s the name of my band ,The Zone. Great stories 25 minutes went by like it was five minutes I see you’re uping your time. I love it keep them coming.
Dude, you are just *off the hook* !! 🤣🤣
That was great! Thanks for sharing.
I enjoy an interesting story teller. Racing is not an interest of mine but I watched a video all about it and I don't regret it. I enjoy the stories and I hope to hear more.
Great story! Back in my kart racing days, our team name was "Team Hangover" ... for obvious reasons.
My wish… The Mark V 90w having a baby with the TriAxis to have a Mark V digitally controlled.
Hallo form Poland
Stupid? Stupid is my middle name, but boy have I learned a lot from that stupidity.
DIZZ!!!!!!!!!!
I've got a Subaru BRZ, the easiest and best decision I've made. Not fast - but low cg, perfectly balanced, Torsen diff... super fun.
Love this channel but I'd rather hear about your experiences in the world of music.
"Team stupid" LOL!
You mentioned how the new engine was over engineered and not as fun as your race car . Can you apply that to amps?
And what's your opinion on Max Verstappen?
Tell us when Metallica knocked your door at Mesa in search of your unique tone! Thank You Randy!
And the unreleased Hetfield sig amp
Gibson ruined your Amplifiers, they won't pass the hammer tap test anymore. The friggin tube sockets are not bolted to the Chassis anymore 😢