Thanks guys...its basically brand new old stock..most of the ones ive come across are usually all beat up and in need of repair...or poorly repaired....i took it to a friend of mine who slowly brought it up on a variac...it only needed a few caps.....Im a stonesaholic and this amp is the only way to get the exile on main street sound...and for the get your ya yas sound i add this cabinet to it..The 417s are one of the best guitar speakers ever. for me anyway...
Frustrated off and on guitarist. Don't play much these days, between health issues and arthritis. Sold my old (as in 50's) Strat to an extremely competent English fellow. Big amp is in storage, early 60's Bassman modified with a twin output section, and a 2x12 Fender cab with 417-c. I play a hot rodded Korean Squier Strat with GFS staggered alnicos and tremelo. maple neck, bone nut, otherwise stock. Most of the time just use a Frontman 25R. The Bassman I have is the one Marshall cloned the preamp for their early amp. Fuzzy brain doesn't remember model number offhand.
Heroes? Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds,obviously Chuck Berry, Ritchie Blackmore...that list could get long. Just basic rock....
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
i made my living playing from the late 70s until about 5 years ago...you could work 5 or 6 nights a week...or go out and hear good bands with different styles or genres ...in a small club with a pa system bigger than a house...lol....those were the days
My back remembers many of those PA systems. Other than a short hiatus with Altec, did mostly touring audio from 1970 to 78.
RCA w-bins AKA Shearer horns. We owned 16. Most of the time we only used 8. 1971 at a college festival in North Carolina we used all 16, along with 16 Altec 815' types, actually cut down 210's, 8 1003 with dual 290's and every amp we could beg, borrow and steal. Today wouldn't be adequate, but impressive for those days. all Altec except for amps, and the drivers in the Shearer bins were some oddities a fellow in Pennsylvania was having mad, think by Eminence. We even had a lot of Altec mics, gave bfish a couple leftovers a few years back.
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
loading in..loading out...lol..man that was work.......i remember seeing alot those rca bins.....and also northwest cabs i think the were called...fiberglass double 15 boxes.i had some long ago....i think they had those at the cleveland agora as well..remember what they called perkins bins???
Perkins was the JBL guy who designed the 4560, JBL's A7 competitor. Similar cabs are often called "perkins bins". Basically short front loaded around 160-200 Hz jobs.
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
Bars figured out playing recorded music was cheap. And frankly, a lot of us played just for the love of music. Everything was cheaper. It all adds up. Plus, people don't support live music like they used to. Video didn't just kill the radio star.
Your neighbors called. They like your music.
As I remember it, disco killed rock, but you could still dance to it. Then came urban cowboy which not only killed Disco, but also killed dancing in bars, and without dancing, no need for live music. Finally, Rap killed everything and has lasted forever and that is when the music died.
Almost sounds like you could throw a "lizard - Spock" in there too.Originally Posted by VolvoHeretic
As I remember it, disco killed rock, but you could still dance to it. Then came urban cowboy which not only killed Disco, but also killed dancing in bars, and without dancing, no need for live music. Finally, Rap killed everything and has lasted forever and that is when the music died.Don't forget that jazz killed big band, and rock killed jazz.
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