Tube trouble in the Motherland...

[Crankdaddy]

This could spell trouble for tube amps everywhere.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13145804/from/ET/

[Boxcar Willie 84]

Damn! If that goes thru then we'll have to buy chinese tubes only!

[zeegler]

Nothing wrong with Chinese tubes, but prices will go through the roof.

[YetAnotherOne]

Think, "Vetta!"

[VulfgangPfuck]

It won't happen. Matthews has enough of a backing of legal, and celebrities...

He's been around forever, and is one of those "Bill Gates of The Music Industry" types. I don't see real Russian tubes going away anytime soon.

zeegler said:
Nothing wrong with Chinese tubes, but prices will go through the roof.

True...more than half of Mesa's tubes are Chinese. But it's those Russian tubes that only the truest tone conniseur must have above anything else! I heard the difference between Chinese and Russian...there is a difference! Just a matter of preference.

[GWARGHOUL]

uh yee-uh, we finuh follow dis story real closely.
Ya feel me?

I think everything will be ok, seems like he has a lot of support.

[zeegler]

I'm not worried. I prefer JJs to Sovteks anyway.