Mesa/Boogie Mark III Blue Stripe Metal

Decided to put this Mark III blue stripe through its paces with some riffs from the first Theocracy album. :) No boost, all gain from the amp, and settings as shown in the photo at the end. Enjoy!

[GuilhermedeLimaKlebes]

The healing Hand! Greetings from Brazil!

[robvoyles]

I have 5 of mark series amps, Green stripe, Red stripe, Blue Stripe and a a IIC+.. if they were vastly different they wouldn't have just swiped each version with just a magic marker swipe or a black dot or a + sign. The big difference in the IIC+ and the Mark III was the third channel. Mesa got noticeably different with the Mesa badging vs the Boogie badges. The Rectifier series, The lone star, Road King, Nomad, etc came later and did sound different... The stiletto was probably the most different being EL34 based shooting toward the Marshall tone. Even my newer Mark 5 EL84 based amp sits in my studio with the older mark III'S and IIC+ it too sounds really close even all these years later with totally different power section/ tubes. The petrucci amp is a modern Mark amp and you can line up all the Mark series amps and NO one in the audience would ever know the difference and most guitar players blind folded couldn't pick them out one from the other especially with the transparent EVM 12L black shadow speaker or an MC-90 black shadow. The IIC+ landed production in the right time to become the flagship vintage boogie. Thats when 80's music was huge and that amp was produced at the right time for the players who made it famous. it didn't make them famous. I would argue a Mark III purple, red, blue or green stripe Mark III could have been used by the players who made the IIC+ famous and those albums and concerts wouldn't have sounded any different. They just weren't available at the time those bands recorded those albums. They stopped the IIC+ when the mark III came into production. They stopped the III when the Mark IV started and so on....they are all great amps and tonally are the same. Most of those bands stopped playing the IIC+ and went to the mark III when it came out because the sound was basically the same but the 3 had a third channel, everyone loved that.

[Turboy]

Sounds a lot like Dave Mustaine in parts. Both in playing and in tone. Being the brand new owner of a blue stripe widebody head, this excites me.

[reaper]

GOD really bless you with beautiful talent in music Matt, .... Greetings from Indonesia

[ulisesvelasco]

Su musica es excelente ojala algun dia vengan a Mexico

[sykoticlogic]

Matt, you legend I hope i get to see theocracy live some day one of my favorite bands!!!

[ibexthadevil]

Matt..love the vids..by far the best sounding mesa demos..same as you..mesa user since 91 and a mega metallica fan...i have the mark 3 blue stripe simul class in white, triple rec head 2002 and a dc5 combo...love it..keep up the great work

[hannakinomoto]

Matt is the best👏 greetings from Mexico

[khvier]

Well, well, well, we can say that YOU KNOW how to dial with an amp !!! Congratulations man ! you sincerrelly deserve more views !!! awesome riff between !!!

[teddyboehm]

Love this song thanx for the posting great riffing

[drillcream]

Keep posting I love watching and listening.. Oh and come tour Australia one day, m'kay?

[joirow]

mkIII Blue stripe is an amazing amp!!!all the distortion you may need

[techdeathhippie]

That amps sounds great man . I just bought a broke green stripe rack mount . I sent it to Mesa to get rebuilt

[NA-pxus]

Sounds amazing,   such a great song. I used the last verses as part of a presentation on The Singer Trilogy of books (it fits very well with The Finale).

Question, is that awesome necklace for sale anywhere?

[urussh]

Fantastic tone! What difference do you hear in comparison to Jp2c?

[thomasolney]

I've seen Matt wearing that necklace in a bunch of different pictures and videos. Is there any place to buy one like it? I've checked multiple times on every Theocracy merch store I can find, but I've yet to see something like that for sale.

[geedub]

The intro really reminded me of Edguy - Headless Game.

[guitarstoreinstrumentosmus]

top top cara !!!! sonho de consumo dos pobres Brasileiros

[iamrevenantband]

That face at 1:07 - Matt means business. Great tone, fantastic song. Is it too soon for another album yet? :D Still finding new things on Ghost Ship, but when it comes to Theocracy music I'm a little greedy. Cheers from Tennessee!

[carlitozik]

Your riffs are better than metallica's!