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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 5:02 am
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Dang those are some ugly amps.....
Standel,...man I had forgotten about those,I had to borrow one way back when from a friend,it sounded like crap when I played through it.....I don't think I was that terrible. :oops:


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Tom Petty and Mike Campbell have used their solid-state Vox amps for some legs of their tours before switching back to a humble Princeton - I think it goes back to the fact that as long as it's working (which a lot of the Fender SS weren't), a good musician can make any POS rig sound great...

Speaking of Jimmy Page, hearing him rip it up on "It Might Get Loud" as well as a special encore guest with JPJ on Foo Fighters: Live at Wembley shows he still has it, albeit now with Orange amps.

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I would add one additional vintage solid state amp that sounded pretty good and was used by several pros at the time. The Kustom amps with the tuck and roll were actually pretty nice amps. I'm pretty sure Creedence Clearwater Revival used them. I bought a silver tuck n' roll K200 in 1971 and was pretty happy with it. Of course it probably sounded better in my memory than it really did. Anybody else remember the Kustom amps? The current Kustom company really has no connection to the old company other than buying their name.


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These babies show up periodically on eBay, and sell for five to seven hundred dollars. About a year ago someone who had worked for Fender in the day, I believe an engineer, sold a few different models there.


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These babies show up periodically on eBay, and sell for five to seven hundred dollars. About a year ago someone who had worked for Fender in the day, I believe an engineer, sold a few different models there.


That would be Bob Rissi who, after washing his hands of Fender, helped Rickenbacher develop their "Trans-Sonic" line of amps. Apparently he has a large stock of NOS parts for Fender's first series of "solid waste" amps which he periodically auctions off on Ebay. Later, he formed his own amp company and enjoyed some modest success during the '80s era of "big-hair" bands.

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I have a PA head that is of that vintage works ok as a monitor amp.


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"Back in the day", we had the transistorized PA as well (105-watt 4-ch amp with switchable effects loop, a pair of column speakers with four tens in each). It was a good reliable PA that always delievered. By comparison, the instrument amps generally sucked golf balls through a garden hose.

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"Back in the day", we had the transistorized PA as well (105-watt 4-ch amp with switchable effects loop, a pair of column speakers with four tens in each). It was a good reliable PA that always delievered. By comparison, the instrument amps generally sucked golf balls through a garden hose.

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I had a Shure Vocal Master 100 watter way back with the column speakers. Same thing, reliable and did the job.

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63supro wrote:
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"Back in the day", we had the transistorized PA as well (105-watt 4-ch amp with switchable effects loop, a pair of column speakers with four tens in each). It was a good reliable PA that always delievered. By comparison, the instrument amps generally sucked golf balls through a garden hose.

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I had a Shure Vocal Master 100 watter way back with the column speakers. Same thing, reliable and did the job.


I had the same and before that a Bogen amp with (2) Electrovoice horns.

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Bogen and Electro Voice were big way back too.
We need a Geezer section on this forum. :wink:

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We do need a geezer section...I feel like people think we're crazy when we talk about tubes and amps elsewhere...even though they will go buy a new "tube"amp to geta a tone they're chasing,but with all the other bells and whistles...
speaking of Bogen PA's,I read one time where Dickey Betts said the best slide tone he ever got was with an old Bogen amp and a cheap little playback speaker...the one with a musical note on front :lol: it was at a studio somewhere and when he went looking to get one for himself,he found an old Bogen and cheapest speakers he could find but couldn't duplicate the tone...it was that one combination.


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Rebelsoul wrote:
We do need a geezer section...I feel like people think we're crazy when we talk about tubes and amps elsewhere...even though they will go buy a new "tube"amp to geta a tone they're chasing,but with all the other bells and whistles...
speaking of Bogen PA's,I read one time where Dickey Betts said the best slide tone he ever got was with an old Bogen amp and a cheap little playback speaker...the one with a musical note on front :lol: it was at a studio somewhere and when he went looking to get one for himself,he found an old Bogen and cheapest speakers he could find but couldn't duplicate the tone...it was that one combination.


I have a old Bogen still I picked up last year I took out the low impedance input filters in it and jumpered them to high impedance and put two quarter inch jacks where the speaker screw terminals used to be. It has 3 rectifier tubes. :lol: two 6l6s and is 60 watts it barks pretty good.
What drives me nuts on these forums are the guys who buy a new amp and immediately start modding the amp or changing the speakers or tubes what ever with out giving the amp a chance just because every one on that particular forum is talking about modding amps. An other is the bed room amp fiasco ever hear of a volume knob??? Every one things you need to play on ten and overdrive the amp yet some amps will never over drive that's the way they are made. If I want dirt I use a pedal.


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63supro wrote:
We need a Geezer section on this forum. :wink:


ROTFFLMFAOPIMFP!!!!

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jh45gun,
You're right,especially about the "bedroom amp"...that gets me every time,I guess I shouldn't have been playing those 50w Marshalls or the 60w Boogie inside my house because the general consensus it seems nowadays is anything bigger than 20w is too big for home use. :roll:
It is funny though that I raised three sons and practiced music the whole time...and I'll bet they wished I would TURN DOWN!


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A little different take: I'm a geezer (68) with an actual solid state Fender amp, the Jazzmaster Ultralight. It's a hell of an amp, and light weight to boot. Fender has finally figured out how to make circuits that sound good without glass bottles inside. One of my bass amps is Fender s/s, at that (Bassman 400 210) and it sounds terrific with my '51 P RI.

The solid states offer something besides the opportunity to sound like everyone else. I'm not knocking tubes -- I have the '63 Silvertone 1484 I bought from its original owner in '74 ($40), a DRRI, a Band-Master VM, a Blues Jr NOS, a Mesa/Boogie bass amp, and my past is littered with B15Ns and whatnot -- but my JM sings.

Did I mention it doesn't weigh as much as a truck?

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