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HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
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Although it looks like the wrong cab for the head, that's a PA amp and should have come with column speakers I think. That looks more like the 3x12" Bassman cab.
Hilarious how dated it looks now, considering it was 'futuristic' at the time compared to the traditional valve amps.
Is it working?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The head is a PA4100X and the cab is a SPK0312. The head should be the (similar-looking) solid state Bassman.
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
A badge of honour in those days I assume.
I've only seen pictures of these so I guess pretty rare H?
Well, I've not seen any "in the wild" for some time!
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
Solid-state was definitely a badge of honour then - it was the future. Fender were unfortunate that by being one of the first, they got caught by a lot of the problems before the technology matured - and they were doubly unlucky that music was moving from fairly clean, refined sounds to distorted rock sounds at almost exactly this time.
By this time Leo had left Fender and his self-taught repairman's 'thrash it til it breaks, find out what went wrong and change it' method he'd used to make his valve amps reliable had been replaced by college-trained electronics engineers who didn't really understand what musicians did with their equipment.
The PA amp actually has a better chance of having survived than the guitar and bass ones, since it's less likely to have been thrashed as hard - solid-state amps *still* can't tolerate being driven fully into power-stage clipping really, so they had no chance with the relatively fragile transistors of the time.
If it is working, I'd love to hear what it sounds like - I worked on an original '64 Vox T60 some years ago, which was probably the very first production transistor amp, and were notorious for unreliability. That one must have lived a sheltered life because all the transistors were original and it worked fine - and it sounded wonderful, at least clean. I didn't dare overdrive it...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
Never heard of one.
Where do you find these?! It actually looks amazing, I love how proud it is to be solid state
Solid state is still the future
What does it sound like?
HarrySeven - Intangible Asset Appraiser & Wrecker of Civilisation. Searching for weird guitars - so you don't have to.
Forum feedback thread. | G&B interview #1 & #2 | https://www.instagram.com/_harry_seven_/
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein