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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:50 am
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He later went into business for himself and using satellites built a box to locate the direction to Mecca, and sold them for big bucks to the middle eastern airlines.


:?: :!:

All of the professional pilots and aviators that I know can locate any point on the globe and plot a vector to fly there using a chart, an E6B, and a magnetic compass.

Perhaps having all those goats and chickens in the cockpit is somewhat of a distraction.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:46 am
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I had a solid state reverb unit...it didnt sound bad for what it was...but not like a tube unit..even the Boss 63 sounds better...IMOP


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:54 pm
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I had a solid state reverb unit...it didnt sound bad for what it was...but not like a tube unit..even the Boss 63 sounds better...IMOP


+1

I've heard a few of those used with PA's......for vocals they worked pretty well.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:53 pm
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Here's a trip in the "wayback" machine......

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Likely from the '72 tour, the Ike & Tina Turner Revue were the only act I ever personally saw who used the transistorized Fender Super Showman amps onstage. The bassist is playing through an equally-monstrous 400PS bass rig.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:21 am
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Surprised that they can still hear... :shock:


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:55 am
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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:41 am
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Kustom PA and an Ampeg VT40 halfstack?

Kewl!

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:52 am
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Yep !
and dig that Kay fake les paul with the phaser, whirlwind and some other crazy built in effects.
another photo I have of that set up says 1982 on it, must be somewhere around that time.
We also had a great silvertone that would send a little buzz through you if you grabed a mic stand.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
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Is it just me or does Ike look like he wants to just slap the bejesus out of Tina in that pic?

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Who knows? But you got the right time period.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:47 pm
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Is it just me or does Ike look like he wants to just slap the bejesus out of Tina in that pic?


Mister Turner was a real piece of......work.

He belonged in prison for what he put that woman through.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:20 am
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Yeah Ike looks mean everytime I see a pic of him...I was traveling out in West Tennessee where Tina(Anna Mae Bullock,her real name I think) is from,and I remembered the song "Nutbush City Limits" and kept seeing a sign about her home town,well....I passed right through Nutbush without even knowing it,there is nothing there,a couple of houses maybe,I don't know where Ike dug her up.


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go? eBay?
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:54 am
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As a solid state amp owner i have a 50w Ashton GA10 and it sounds good with my "vintage" SX Strat copy plus when in open G tuning with dirt i can play smoke on the water better.

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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
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I actually played in a band in the '60's that used one of them. We all had lots of Fender amps, and our bass player started with an old original 4 10" Bassman, then he got a blackface Bassman, then he added a silverface Bassman, then he replaced the 12" speakers with JBL's - but he was never loud enough. Then he got the late '60's solid state Bassman and used his two Bassman bottoms. That thing was LOUD! Not sure about the tone quality, but he shook the walls everyplace we played!


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Post subject: Re: Vintage Fender Solid State amps-where did they go?
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:29 pm
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Not surprising, Red.

The first-generation solid-state Bassman was rated for 105 watts -- twenty watts more than a Dual Showman and nearly double that of the tube-fired AB165 Bassman. The 3 x 12 cab was a bit goofy but the amp itself had plenty of poke -- much like the solid-state PA system which used the same output stage.

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