Re: evans hydraulics, who has played 'em?
I've had 'em and played on 'em...never did care for them. They are just too dead for my taste. BUT HERE'S A STORY!
I was playing at a hotel in Kansas City back in the 80's, when I was approached by an older gentleman. He introduced himself as Bob Beales, president/owner of Evans, at that time based in Dodge City (yes, that Dodge City) Kansas. He told me about how the Hydraulics came to be. Back in the olden days, before the Hydraulics, Evans had a 2-ply clear head, that was doing pretty well in the rock'n'roll marketplace. It seems that Bob was over in Europe doing an A&R tour, and guys kept coming up to him and saying "Hey Bob! I sure like those oil-filled heads!" And Bob would just kind of nod knowingly, say "thanks", and then think "what the heck are they talking about?...we don't make an oil-filled head." Then it occured to him that when you look at a 2-ply head, light refracts through where the plies contact each other, creating the appearance of an "oil" layer in between! And he thought "if they want an oil-filled head, I'll give 'em an oil-filled head!" When he got back home to Kansas, he got out a towel and took it to the assembly line, soaked it with light machine oil, and placed it so that when the plies of mylar came off of the roll, they passed over the towel and picked up a coating of oil. Voila! Oil-filled heads! I'm sure there must be more to it now, but that's what Bob Beales told me.
Play on.
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