Chappers and the Captain's First Guitar Rigs! - Were They Any Good?

[@raaustin777]

Lee is always apologizing in these videos for how they got off topic reminiscing.. but I could watch Lee and Rob going on about their old gear and gigs alllllllll day!

[@thunderbirdcalls]

I agree. I don't even have a need for the second channel on a regular basis, though I am subscribed. Lee, the team, and the guests are always so knowledgeable and helpful.

[@nikverschuren4291]

Best duo ever. The chemistry is bonkers. I do love pete aswell but totaly different vibe.

[@davidcarlson8571]

That’s why we’re here!

[@rmp5s]

Right? Thinking about even making a reply video!! Could be a cool "pass it around, make a reply" kind of thing and see everyone else's setups!!

[@riphopfer5816]

Seconded.

[@southernpanda33]

Lee, for the love of Crom, stop apologizing for reminiscing. That’s one of the things we love about your channel. I could watch a 6 hour video of you guys talking about your lives in guitar. Never lose your enthusiasm for the art. It’s infectious. 🎉

[@joemorris4424]

More stories, make these longer. This is one of the best Chappers/Captain videos! Please make more of these!

[@pepmasters-999]

Totally agree. Unexpectedly good this one.

[@keithsargent440]

Came here to say this. These sort of videos are awesome !

[@Gene_Cali]

This channel makes me feel like I'm with family, just being relaxed and enjoying the music and convo. Thank you both, and everyone that contributed to make these possible. 100 👍

[@shanewalton8888]

Mad respect to Rob for selling his JEM to save his cat's life. Way beyond cool.

[@Vivi_9]

Yeah he's a real.... jem

[@Tiago_007]

Well said. He is a Jem of a guy.

[@TexanUSMC8089]

I won't say what I would have done to the cat..LOL

[@pleasantlanguage1585]

Stupid.

[@jmdyt3626]

@@TexanUSMC8089alright Shane Dawson

[@JoeR203]

Lee is in great shape for 52. Looks like he's in his late 30s - early forties.

[@TexanUSMC8089]

That's because he quit playing in dives..no cigs or booze. LOL

[@pepmasters-999]

Honestly one of the best Andertons videos. Like being down the pub with two mates.

[@o0Macgruber0o]

honestly the telling of stories is some of the bests parts of you and rob together. I wish you could do more videos together centered around just jamming and telling tales of old.

[@misterknightowlandco]

You two just chatting has been the most interesting video you’ve guys done for months… shoulda kept going!

[@fabioragone22]

that was definitely one of the most entertaining chats you guys ever had! Pretty fun to listen to these stories from decades ago.

[@thierry18]

Oh man, that Ibanez story is brutal

[@Milehousestudios]

Possibly my favourite Andertons video gents...I loved those stories. RIP Geoff Wilderbeast. ❤❤

[@wurm90125]

Can totally recall every amp I've ever owned: -Dad's 1964 Magnatone -Holmes 20 watt solid state - 1987 Marshall JCM 800 2205 with a 1960A - Fender Super 60 (because the Marshall croaked and I couldn't afford to repair it. A music store swapped the cabinet and gave me the Fender) - Marshall Valvestate 100 2x12 Combo (pedal platform. Used a Digitech RP-12 for all my tones) -Line 6 AX 212 (Absolute shit).. -Mesa Rectifier Solo 50 with Standard Recto 4x12 (kept this until 2 years ago) -Mesa Mark V (sold) -Mesa JP 2C (sold) -Mesa TC 50 Combo (sold) -Kemper 600 watt with Cabinet (sold) -Mesa JP2C (yes, again) with compact Recto 2x12 (best cab ever) -Revv G50 with 2 x12. If you're still with me, thanks. LOL

[@zaquemwhc]

I have a moderate amp collection and some digital stuff and I've only gotten to use the Revv G stuff digitally. I'd love to get one irl someday! Cheers mate!

[@wurm90125]

@@zaquemwhc I only currently own the last two on my list. They cover all the ground I need I think.

[@zaquemwhc]

@@wurm90125 I believe it a Revv G & JP2C is a killer combo, do you run stereo rigs with them?

[@wurm90125]

@@zaquemwhc not yet. I tend to use them for different things and as such they’re dialed in very differently. I may explore that down the road.

[@misterknightowlandco]

Let’s see if I can do that…. Ross 15 watt 1/10combo that sucked Marshall MG15 Crate 2x12 gxr or grt something like that Fender Red Knob 2x12 pos that died a week after I bought it at a pawn shop Line 6 Spider 1 212 Quit playing for 10 years Fender Mustang Vox AC4 Danelectro Dirty 70 Fender Mustang v 1 iii And I’ve had a peavey bandit for the last 10 years and haven’t looked back.

[@mrc2662]

Only halfway through so far, and it’s already an absolute pleasure to watch this. These videos have been part of my life for so many years and this kind of content is such a joy. Total props to these two lovely fellas - entertainers and talents, both.

[@Kevin20ftw]

You guys take the cake for a guitar channel, absolutely wonderful content. I have been on a 3 week binge watching your videos, wondering why i have never seen your stuff before, Andertons needs to open in US.

[@stephenkeen6044]

Best episode in recent memory! Great to hear all the reminiscences, thanks for sharing, guys!

[@oskariterasniska6956]

I love these kinds of videos where you guys just tell stories and have a laugh! We need more of these!!

[@agastyeet8362]

it is so much fun listening to these two talk

[@danieljdtaylor]

Would love to see more videos with anecdotes from the past! Not only entertaining but probably some good lessons in there for guys just starting to gig. Would also love to see you guys choose a first gigging rig if your teenage self time travelled to now!

[@SohamBhattacharya3105]

This was one of the most enjoable Andertons videos I remember seeing in a long time. Made me nostalgic about the old bandana-wearing Rob and blue Andertons t-shirt wearing Lee videos.

[@vanessajazp6341]

Very glad to see the 2 of you back together! Definitely missed this show the last few years.

[@stanislavmigra]

Great video. And I love we are back at variety of presenters. With Pete, John, Ozz and now Chappers also. Very good, very goo. Keep it up. Great work Lee and The Team ❤

[@karl-wilhelmschreitz8549]

How great to see how Captain loosens up and give some insight in him. I always thougt he was a great guy, - and he proves it here. And he is a better guitar player then he thinks.

[@kanelfc98]

This is one of the best videos on this channel

[@RandyWillcox]

15:58! Lee! That's amazing! Friends of mine had a cover band here about 25 years ago that played all over the place called...Big Dictator and the Well Hungarians!

[@Chris66JTM45]

YES, bring back a new range of British built Valvestates ! Apart from the occasional scratchy pot, my 1993 first version model 8040 1x12 combo is still going strong.

[@John_2Much_Coffee]

Love hearing stories, thank you for sharing ! Cheers

[@Kazdy]

I could have watched hours of that reminiscing. Lovely stuff, trips down memory lane, the odd riff thrown in. ❤

[@fento9]

What a great video!!!!!! Please do more of these!

[@Matt_Barkley]

Guitars are important, but kitty>guitar every time.

[@EasyHeat]

This video is brilliant! Cheers Chappers & the Captain!

[@russl9029]

Hugh Janus reminds me of the time in the late 90's when my best friend and i were hanging out at the airport watching the jets take off ( you used to be able to do those kind of things) and we got the idea to prank the baggage claim desk by speaking with a middle eastern accent, saying we couldnt find our uncle and asking them to page Meidikus Flauping over the intercom. When we heard "my dick is flopping, please report to baggage claim" we were rolling on the floor laughing. 😂

[@jacobbaranowski]

welcome back Rob and Lee. thank you 👍

[@simonthompson9380]

Love it! So many memories of similar equipment and early gig experiences of same era . It’s worth remembering that with no internet the only knowledge you had of gear etc was from Guitarist magazine and what your local music store actually stocked. #bringbackvalvestate.

[@thpark8189]

In 1977 my rig was a 1964 AC30 Top Boost and a 1977 hardtail Strat, bought new. I was 17 years old. What a great time it was. Still playing now, every week.

[@alecalfaras5936]

Captain & Chapman = best andertons videos, have a wonderful day and thank you!

[@sebastiangomez5068]

You gents bring a smile to the face. Thanks and Many Cheers!

[@maddog7012]

Lee is 3 years older than Rob, but looks 5 years younger. Guess which one had a run as a working musician...

[@andertons]

Ha ha Ha....

[@MRoo1oo]

This was gold. Listening to your stories and a little guitar playing is a great way to start the weekend.

[@stoneysdead689]

My first gigging rig was a Peavey Studio 110 red stripe and an Epiphone Les Paul- no pedals. And the worst gig we ever played- turned out to be the best. Our drummer booked us without saying a word to any of us, we had only been together for about 6 weeks- we didn't have enough material worked out to do a show- not even close. That said, we felt we couldn't back out- we were booked, so we play- that's how it works. But- we decided not to charge the guy who was throwing the party- and to tell the crowd that we just got together and basically were just going to have an open practice session and let them listen. There was between 150 and 200 ppl there- and it became a really fun, intimate venue where the ppl got to interact with us, watch us make mistakes, watch us work stuff out- and they loved it. They would ask for a song, it would take us 2-3 tries to get it right, but then we would play it for them- and they ate it up. We let ppl get up and sing- they loved that as well. It turned out to be the most fun I have ever had at any show- and I met my wife that night. X wife now, but that's my fault really- and a much sadder, longer story I don't want to get into. We were together for 10 yrs though so- that night had a huge influence on the rest of my life.

[@johne.1011]

I have a USA made red stripe Studio Pro and its just a great amp...

[@Vivi_9]

That was a beautiful story!

[@bedroomstudios205]

Sounds like the shows I do now 😂 Kelly’s Irish pub Mudgee had a guy from the crowd want to sing brown eyed girl, so we let him. Totally winged it and it actually went off.

[@melvoid01]

That was genuinely entertaining bought back loads of memories including one of our school bands was called "Sticky Hamsters" always made me chuckle.

[@bobgamble8204]

Tremendous video, brings back so many memories of my first terrible band, so much fun, so little talent mostly, but jeaus the commitment we all had - ive never had since!

[@ClaudioRaffaelli]

I really love when these two are together

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

I remember those MSGs from back when I started learning guitar in 1994. Saw a photo in a guitar magazine and fell in love

[@nickm.9474]

I’m glad to hear that we all did the same things. Like smelling the gear at a shop. Hahaha. The smell of a new Marshall cabinet was just the best thing ever. I still go into shops and give them a sniff. Hahaha. Sadly the owner of the shop I used to go to recently passed away.

[@daviddwyer6824]

Chappers's accent is reverting further as he treks down memory lane. It's amazing.

[@michaelangeloh.5383]

And don't forget that Vai basically got Ibanez to make a 7-string, which spawned a whole branch of bands and music throughout the next decades.

[@dmac-333]

Awesome guys. Great idea. Love to see Mick & Dan do a similar episode.

[@szneka12]

My first rig: Ibanez GIO GRX70 (black), no-name 1x10 amplifier, and Boss ML-2 Metalcore. Still remember it fondly.

[@badGamr]

Great video! My 1st rig in 1980 was a 77 LPC into a ...wait for it... Peavy Backstage Plus! LOL. Well it was what I could afford at the time. I got lucky on the LPC and picked it up used for a song :). Still have it!

[@benlogan430]

Chappers and the Captain! Excellent video and sweet outro playing!

[@lightningrt434]

1980 Maya Strat, homemade 5w SS Combo with 4x8 speakers. Homemade leads, homemade fuzz box in a tobacco tin.

[@nicktarling7354]

I'm still playing some great gigs in Trowbridge! Come back this way and see us Chappers haha

[@taulmusic7397]

Deluxe 85 was my first digital amp. Can't believe it. Love Rob and Lee reminiiscing.

[@royw0031]

Always good to see chappers and the captain in a vid together

[@undercrackers56]

Just love these videos where Lee and Rob let their narrative wander. Can anyone imagine a time when Rob Chapman was not good at guitar?

[@jimmygillard]

Absolutely loved this stroll down memory lane lads.

[@zanebullard8665]

My first gigged rig 2010 Epiphone SG Special (sticker bombed with punk band stickers) Peavey Windsor 100 watt tube head and matching cabinet Used the boost switch for solos and also had an Ibanez tube screamer ts9dx to push the amp harder Still have the guitar and it still sounds and plays great!

[@egr113]

Great video, loved to hear your stories, thanks guys

[@stephenbragg4980]

You never made it in Trowbridge in the early 90s until you'd played Peewee's

[@ErnieJ89]

Mine was an Epiphone Les Paul Jr through a Crate Blue Voodoo with a Dunlap distortion pedal! I loved it and made great memories playing at these coffee shops that had rock bands in the early 2000s

[@RoodyH]

First ever gigged rig: Rockwood LX90 Zoom505 LaneyGC120 18 years old, I thought I was M-A-F! Halcyon Days! 🤘🤠🤘

[@flatfoot1983]

I had the same guitar and multi-effect - but a really shitty practice amp that I blew up at some point.

[@daveychainsaw961]

Great video, really enjoyed the stories. My first proper rig was pretty cool - at Uni in Cardiff I managed to find a Marshall Jubilee 2555 and 1973 Marshall 4x12 in the back room of Broadway Music. Paid £450 for both! Thank you student loan!

[@christopher7310]

Morning gents! Great video. My first rig was a Jackson 7-string X series, Yamaha THR 10X, and a diavolo overdrive. That kit pretty much said I was new and ran into a good salesman lol

[@Vivi_9]

Lee my man you are too modest - that solo you did at the end was amazing and you cut yourself off! Also the pun about you being a stripper in a music club was genius.

[@timnotbrianmay]

... CHILL ABOUT THE APOLOGIES! It's a very, VERY BRITISH THING! 😸 ROB! YOU PLAYED YOUR MOM! I ONLY GOT TO DO THAT ONE TIME, BUT IT'S A VERY, VERY VIVID MEMORY FOR ME! I only played out in clubs for about 6 years, but they are ABSOLUTELY some of my BEST MEMORIES!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LanterneRDavid]

I had a JCM900 50w head and 4x12 back in the mid 90s, then I bought a 1x12 Boogie DC3 combo and it blew the Marshall away...I've had the Boogie over 25 years and it's still better and more versatile than most amps!

[@rodbelding9523]

Nothing wrong with selling a guitar to save your cat, a very noble thing.

[@stonecirca80]

Used to have guitar lessons out the back of Stag Music in the tiny porta cabin things. Happy days. Bought my first guitar an Antoria Telstar from the rack in the shop. Can't remember much about it but I loved it.

[@matthewlaw8268]

That pick throw at the end to hit the camera lens!

[@christopheranderson2158]

I have that Marshall 9004 rack preamp sitting in a rack across the room from me right now. Actually, I have a refrigerator-sized rack full of all those now-vintage preamps….ADA’s, Rocktrons, Marshalls, Haflers, Digitechs, Tube Works, ARTs, etc. Still love plugging into them!

[@stuartnixon2009]

I still have my Marshall 9004 pre-amp, along with the Yamaha FX500 multi-effect half rack unit. Bought from Carlsbro music in Sheffield when i was at Uni avoiding studying. Absolutely top gear for the day!

[@kylebaker8619]

My first gigging rig was a 2001 black gibson studio les paul and a fender Princeton no pedals, all clean. I played with a band that played ska, punk and reggae. I learned so much from this setup. I added a blues breaker and swapped out my studio for a 50s standard and a Mexican strat.

[@matthewkemp7554]

"The cat or the guitar?" Lee and I would be great friends if we didn't live thousands of miles apart. 😅

[@Mr.5hady]

Been a while since you did your first guitars, this will be fun to watch!

[@achanonymous]

The Deluxe 85 was my first amp too (not counting my little Peavey practice amp)! I still have it, and often use it for my clean sounds in the studio. Easily my favourite solid state amp! Also, the overdrive side is actually pretty decent so long as you don't use the "boost" - that definitely gets that fizz that you remember...

[@yearzero2384]

Love the reminiscing Lee!

[@SanDimas234]

Jesus, Rob's first rig's better than mine now😂😂. Floral Jem? "Yeah, no big deal I traded a Charvel and a Yamaha for it" 😂

[@TheCoronaMortis]

Rob's brother introducing himself : "my name is jeff"

[@jeffreymoffitt4070]

Me also introducing myself "my name is jeff"

[@mrredritehand]

Rob you are a great player and a bonafide Legend

[@graemegourley7616]

My first guitar was something I deeply regret parting with. It felt necessary at the time. It was a Japanese made Les Paul copy. Branded as Northern II. Natural finish, maple neck with maple leaf fret markers. I loved that guitar and have so many memories of it. I've tried really hard to find it or a similar one ment times over the years. And I'll buy one if I ever find it!!

[@steffenbrix]

I love the red knob Fender amps...have 8 or 9...looking at the Deluxe 85 right now. Litterally. It sounds amazing. Sound a million times better than any Katana ❤

[@Andy_Ross1962]

My first 'rig' was a Peavey Deuce tube amp and a Fender Telecaster. I got them for my 14th birthday in 1974. I still have the Telecaster

[@cookingwithmike56]

My rig for the one and only gig I've played I had an Epiphone Les Paul Studio, and an E Series MIJ Squier Stratocaster which I found in a pawn shop. My amp was a Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister 18 head which I sat on top of a Blackstar 2×12 cab, and then my very affordable pedal board.

[@grahamnunn8998]

My actual first rig was a 78 Strat, DS1, BF2 flanger and an HH IC100. Only now do I realise how good the HH was, I was in good company. My first rack had the 9004 pre amp, a Hafler pre amp, a home made relay switching system and powered speaker. I also rack mounted a CE-3 and had 4 channels of rhythm / lead with optional chorus on the rhythm. The 9004 headphone out was a recording out too and sounded great for a quick demo.

[@stevegardiner8473]

I used a JMP-1 for years, and then a Rocktron Voodu Valve, which I purchased from Soho Soundhouse in the early noughties, then back to a JMP-1 again. Both of those were awesome pieces of kit, but the Voodu had all the effects you'd need as well, which meant it could cover everything, and we all know how good Rocktron effects are.

[@wayneroy6694]

I'm a bass player who plays AT everything else. My bass rig history isn't embarrassing. But my "playing guitar in public" gig history kind of would be. The first band I played guitar in was a friend's band. He'd broken his arm and needed someone to cover his rhythm parts while he sang. I figured I could do that for a couple months. That guitar was an Explorer copy, by Hondo. My dad was an Electrical Engineer. He and I had re-wrapped the pickups in a few of my guitars. The Explorer had the most successful set of those. I used my friend, Pete's amp, because mine was only good for bedroom volume. His amp was a Lab Series L5, a fire breathing monster of a solid state amp. It was probably the most effective solid state guitar amp I ever heard before digital stuff existed. Second public guitar rig was infinitely more serious, nearly a decade later: MIJ Fender Strat into a Bedrock BC50 amp.

[@Matt_on_life]

I love the Revstar! Honestly, they are so underrated.

[@sigma5054]

Yamaha MSG ! I had mine '92 to credit crunch '08 sadly sold.Loved the red knob fenders,deluxe 85,and Sessionette 75,Peavey Bandit,Bravo,dreamed of racks !😅 Born '71,went to Newcastle College fir Music Production, exchanged my gigs for sound engineering,ended up recording Venom,Members of DogsD'amour, Quireboys and Skyclad! Awesome times! BRING BACK VALVESTATE!❤

[@Andy_Ross1962]

I had a Yamaha MSG at one time. I sold it to a friend, he still has it a lovely guitar.

[@Nugmania1]

Good vid, young folk need to see that u can play guitar with humble beginnings and be a human being. Myself being slightly older can relate. Dial it back to 1976, I looked like Mitch Kramer from the movie” Dazed and Confuzed “ and my first rig was an El Degas Grabber bass with the sliding pickup in the middle and little 5? Watt solid state amp from my sister, later upgraded to a Garnet head converted for bass and a DIY 2/15 cab. Also noteworthy is Burton Cummings mom, while she was focused primarily on the sheet music at Eatons had a hand in my first bass via my Dad

[@TravisKearney]

I loved the Digitech RP 5. I had one, and wish I could return to those days.

[@mattevans060972]

Loved this video. Thank you!

[@b2tall239]

My first rig (mid-'80s) was a bass...a Japanese-made Hondo P-bass with a Peavy practice amp. My first guitar rig (late '80s) was a used Ibanez Roadstar II, a Marshall practice amp, and a Boss DS-1 pedal.

[@rstuartcpa]

I wish I have my first rig. Fender 1966 Duo Sonic II with a Dan Armstrong Blue Clipper (box plugged into the guitar) and a Peavey (not sure the model but it had a 12" speaker and was solid state...and LOUD). I loved it and miss every bit of that rig.

[@ZoomJ74]

Absolutely love that rob lived in Trowbridge, I'm from that neck of the woods, totally bizarre.

[@ScreamingLordStokes]

My band played a gig at Wombwell Working Men's club near Barnsley in 1990 on the day of the England V Germany world cup semi final which was being shown in the other room! You can guess how many people were watching us!

[@staceysmith967]

Watched this just going ‘yup.’ So much cross over! Amazing.

[@EmmaDelamare]

I went to school with Rich and Geoff and saw their band a few times, Geoff's career was cut short by a tragic accident. I can confirm he was an incredibly sweet guy R.I.P.

[@tonyvermeer7409]

My first rig was a small Peavey Chorus combo with two 8's. First gig was with that amp. It was a tent at a fair. We played Metallica covers and a couple Slayer. The tent was packed with head banging & moshing teens. The police were caught off guard by this metal music and thought it was the start of a riot. They started pulling kids out of the tent. Our singer had to bad mouth the cops on the mic and he was pulled too. It became an instrumental show for about 1 minute until the cops pulled the plug. This killed the lights (it was night) and sound, so the crowd really went nuts. All you could hear was cops and drums. The drummer, not phased by a "temporary blown fuse" (like we had done in the basement) kept time. The cops thought this was a show of defiance and yanked him from behind, clean off the riser, to the grass! I finished my night, riding with the singer's mom down to jail to get her son. This "riot" did much for our rep. Every metal kid wanted to see us the NEXT night - when we played the fair again. We had to promise to keep it clean and our fans needed to calm down, or all of us were going to jail. So we announced on the mic to have a "good, clean fun". Then the fair lady got on the mic to warn adults that a heavy metal band was about to start playing. I can still hear her now, "ATTENTION!" "This is a HEAVY METAL BAND!" "I repeat, a HEAVY METAL BAND!" 🤣 Now nobody was leaving!