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Post subject: Re: One Craigslist Ad, 112 miles round trip, and $250 later
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 8:59 am
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thouston wrote:
About four years ago on a cold snowy night, at a club gig, during a break, a dude walks over to me and asked if I would be interested buying a amp he found cleaning out a house. He wanted $30 because he needed beer money.

I went out with him, and in the back of his pickup truck, there was this amp Image

a '68 Princeton, expect it was covered with snow! Fortunately it was laying face-up and cold, so the snow didn't hadn't melted thru the grill cloth. Seeing this I offered him $25 for the amp because I told him that it was probably ruined being in the snow. He agreed!

I went back in the club, got a couple of towels from the bar and wiped as snow as I could off, stuffed dry towels in the back and put the amp in my trunk.

That was a Fri night, the next day I called my amp tech at Abell Audio http://www.abellaudio.com/ and took the amp over to him.

Four days later he called and the amp was ready (ready for what? I thought). It worked, still had all the original tubes and Jensen Speaker (I have a picture of the back but can't find it, I'll take a couple pics later).

I don't play it much, but I do play thru it from time to time.


"That's the stuff that dreams are made of." -- Sam Spade, "The Maltese Falcon"

Nice score, Tony!

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Post subject: Re: One Craigslist Ad, 112 miles round trip, and $250 later
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:19 pm
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thouston .. Sweet Story ! Congrats 8)


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