![]() ![]() The Kid counters that he hates to run away from something he did not do, but decides to finance their move by robbing the local bank, as they have already been condemned by the town. As their mine has petered out, they are anxious to move to California, and reproach the Kid for hanging around because of Vienna. The next day in their mountain hideout, the Kid and his gang wonder which of the many outlaw gangs in the area might have robbed the stagecoach. However, Vienna claims that the intervening years have taught her not to love and points out the inequities of gender, which allow a man to lie, steal, kill and retain his pride, while labeling a woman a tramp after one slip. Although they broke up five years before, Johnny wants to revive their relationship. After the establishment clears for the night, Vienna discusses her business plans with Johnny, who is an old flame she has secretly asked to help her. One of his men, Bart Lonergan, picks a fight with the unarmed Johnny, who nevertheless beats the ruffian in a fistfight. Williams gives Vienna twenty-four hours to close up and leave town, but Vienna refuses to be forced out and Johnny pledges to assist her, making the Kid jealous. The Kid grabs Emma for a dance, but Marshal Williams interrupts to question him about the robbery, refusing to believe that the gang has been mining a secret silver lode, as they claim. The approach of the Kid and his men escalates the tension, which Johnny tries to break by playing the guitar. After tricking the jealous Emma into revealing her unrequited passion for the Kid and her need for irrational revenge, Vienna boldly stands her ground, until the neurotic Emma vows to kill her. Because Vienna remains close-mouthed about the Kid and the ranchers feel threatened by the coming of the railroad and Vienna's profiting from it, they are easily roused into greater antagonism against Vienna by Emma's tirades. Although Jenks, the stagecoach driver, is unable to identify the four masked gunmen who held him up, Emma, who did not witness the crime, insists the gang led by the Dancin' Kid, who is Vienna's occasional lover, is reponsible. Shortly after Johnny arrives, several vigilante ranchers, led by the venomous Emma Small, ride up and accuse Vienna of being part of a gang that robbed the stagecoach and killed her brother, the town's banker. The owner, the steely, opportunistic Vienna, built the casino there in anticipation of the construction of a transcontinental railroad and has promised to share her hoped-for fortune with her four loyal employees, Eddie, Frank, Sam and Old Tom. Both are possible, and my own guess is it’s a Rangemaster-based circuit with silicon instead of the old traditional germanium transistors.In the 1800s, in Arizona, a reformed gunfighter, who is hiding behind the alias "Johnny Guitar," shows up at an out-of-the-way gambling casino located in an unlikely spot near a sleepy town. From the timeline, we can’t be sure if it was an old-school discrete transistor-based circuit like the famous Rangemaster or a modern one using an IC circuit like the good old LM741 that was used in the MXR Distortion Plus. The trademark Ricky King sound was always ultra clean and free of any overdrive and distortion, so the boost was for sure moderate. We don’t know exactly how much is being boosted, and we don’t know what exact circuit was used. Keeping the timeline in mind-we’re talking about the mid ’70s-and from the description (boost plus EQ), I’m pretty sure we’re talking about a treble-booster circuit with a fixed boost because there’s no additional element to control the boost level. One of the switches engaged an onboard preamp that boosted both the volume and treble. With this description, it’s not too difficult to re-engineer the original Ricky King wiring from the era when he recorded his greatest hits.
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