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Post subject: Re: I can 'date' your Rivera-era Fender amp for you
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:05 pm
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T2Stratman wrote:
Edit...did some rereading and it was during the Rivera era (circa 1981) that Fender Changed from Pyle speakers to Eminence at the behest of Bill Hughes...according to the Book "The Fender Amp Book" by John Morrish.


There was nothing sonically remarkable about the Pyle speakers (they bought out Utah in the late '70s, who themselves had absorbed Oxford a couple of years earlier).

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Post subject: Re: I can 'date' your Rivera-era Fender amp for you
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:14 pm
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Pastor...I tried your site, but couldn't seem to get the e-mailing part to work...here is the serial number from my Concert (II) amp...hope this helps with your research...F415185.

I bought it new in '85 and always thought it was an '84 since the original Eminance speakers were dated 14 week of 84.

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Post subject: Re: I can 'date' your Rivera-era Fender amp for you
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:26 pm
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Stratman, thanks - this amp is from the last production run of Rivera-era Concerts and could be late '84, or 85. They were assembling Concerts in Brea, CA after the '85 buyout and this could be one of those; hard to say for sure because stock rotation had gone out of the window in that last period of Rivera-era production.

(Everyone else, the email thing on my web pages isn't a 'mailto:' it's just a note of the address, but you have to remove the capital letters. It's a boneheaded way of stopping web robots picking the address up and using it for commercial spam.)


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Post subject: Re: I can 'date' your Rivera-era Fender amp for you
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 5:47 pm
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ukstratopastor wrote:
Stratman, thanks - this amp is from the last production run of Rivera-era Concerts and could be late '84, or 85. They were assembling Concerts in Brea, CA after the '85 buyout and this could be one of those; hard to say for sure because stock rotation had gone out of the window in that last period of Rivera-era production.

(Everyone else, the email thing on my web pages isn't a 'mailto:' it's just a note of the address, but you have to remove the capital letters. It's a boneheaded way of stopping web robots picking the address up and using it for commercial spam.)


Pastor...thanks for the info...on the amp and the email thing! You have a great site and lots of vital information.

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