#1338304 - 05/19/01 02:22 AM
Re: What was your first amp?
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Chip McDonald
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Originally posted by nrg music:
Hey Chip
I can't say I've ever heard of a Marlboro amp over here...
Huh. I've seen then advertised (or used to be advertised) in all the Brit guitar magazines (in the guitar store ads), and read where people had them when they started out there. Huh. Oh well, my mis-interpretation, interesting.
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#1338305 - 05/19/01 03:39 PM
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I think my first one was a Harmony, just volume and tone knobs and a 6" or 8" speaker. But then I got this great Sears amp. Two 12" speakers and a tube head that fit in the bottom of the speaker cab for travel. Wish I still had it but when I was young I had the great idea of plugging the speaker outs into the in jack of my Bassman 4-10" combo. Man for about 15 seconds I HAD the Jemi tone. Then of course the Sears fried.
My one peavey was a Pacer which I sold to a guy about two months before it blew up.
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#1338306 - 05/19/01 11:19 PM
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Lisa
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Chip - Simon can confirm this, but I'm pretty sure that the solidstate amps you've seen advertised in the UK are Carlsboro, not Marlboro.
Ted - Of course, I do still have my original Fender Twin! The Marlboro is long gone, but I'll never sell the Twin.
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#1338307 - 05/20/01 03:37 AM
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Greed wrote:
>>>Mom's Zenith console stereo and some creative wiring...it sounded killer!
You're a man after me own heart! Love that answer!
And Lisa...sure glad you hung on to the twin.
Hmmm...no Traynors, Sunns, or Kustoms yet. I'da thunk more...
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#1338308 - 05/20/01 04:39 AM
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'64 Fender VibroLux Reverb. I had my first "gig", a high school dance and my Dad took me to the local music shop to rent me an amp. I think the salesman was too good for him but I also suspect he thought the amp was as cool as I did. I used that amp for years but it got stolen from a rehearsla space. I have a Vibrolux Reverb now by the way, the Reissue but I like it, sounds great too.
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#1338309 - 05/20/01 10:15 PM
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grumpy
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Well now we show our age.....mine was an amplifier called a
Kent.....big 5 watts.....one knob...volume....and played a Barclay
guitar.....worked all summer in a gas station to pay for them...
and I can say that I don't miss either....and yes teisco was a step
up from the barclay...
laters
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#1338310 - 05/24/01 12:33 AM
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A Fender Quad reverb. 100 watts, 4x12. I think I was the only human that ever bought one. Never saw one since.
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#1338312 - 05/24/01 02:36 AM
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lrbreez
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<< A Fender Quad reverb. 100 watts, 4x12. I think I was the only human that
ever bought one. Never saw one since. >>
Ralph Mooney used one. He played pedal steel for Waylon Jennings. He used a Sho-Bud Professional with it (He tuned his C 6th neck to a E 9th and used the 5 floor pedals with it)--one of the greats! Andrew Gold when he worked with Linda Ronstadt on the '74 tour used one live with a '74 Les Paul.
My first amp was a Vox Buckingham. It had the three channels that a Super Beatle had, but was 35 watts and 2 12" speakers.
Buddy
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#1338314 - 05/24/01 02:49 AM
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Originally posted by Lee Flier:
YEAH that's the one! As you can tell, I had tried to block it from my memory.  I can't believe you still have yours! LOL... not only that you haven't sold it, but that it still works!
--Lee
Did I SAY that it works?!?
It's needed some new caps or something for years. It plays fine for about 5 min. then starts crapping out. That's why I haven't dropped it like a hot potato. But I can say this for it. It hasn't blown up!
I bought an Ampeg SS-70c in 1989 from GC. All solid state. Pointy headstock/Ibanez guitar sound. All gain. The first one blew up 1/2 hour after I got it home, and being green about this, they convinced me to put it in the shop instead of a return/exchange. 4 months later they still hadn't fixed it, finally replaced it, and that one lasted 6 months. 90 day warranty. I finally tried to use it as a project. Never worked again. So replacing some caps in the Peavey is looking P-R-E-T-T-Y good!
Maybe some of us can get together and throw the carcass of the Ampeg off a tall building!
Neil
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#1338315 - 05/24/01 11:32 AM
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mine was a solid state hohner with 2 10's. as guitar amps go hohner makes a great harmonica... what a horid turd! but light as a feather without all those nasty tubes and transformers to weigh you down! i also had a little kalamazoo 5 watt tube amp with vibrato later on. that was a great amp but it went down in flames.....
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i just bought a kent clone of an ampeg b-15. flip top, all-tube, the whole deal. found it in a junk store for 20 bucks. it rocks....
-d. gauss
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The first blackface Pro Reverb I had got stolen also, but I found another just like it a few years ago.
