ksdaddy Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 There's a local musician, been in the industry close to 60 years. I've met him, I used to clean his office 30 years ago. Seems like a nice guy. He and his wife moved into a smaller house so they decided to cull some musical clutter. They enlisted the help of the local music store. He always throws me bones when stuff comes in that he doesn't want to deal with and I always come out on the good side. One item was a completely beat to crap 1964 P-Bass. Looked like SRV's Number One. I have a pic of the guy in one of his 60s high school bands holding that same bass. That sold for close to 7K on ebay. I wasn't part of that sale, other than making it known I was on the sidelines with $6000 in cash if it didn't get it's $6500 opening bid. A few other items stayed in the store on consignment. There were several amp-ish items that the store didn't even want to bother with. A 1992 Crate amp, nondescript 60 watt. Sounds exactly like you would expect. And loud. A newer Randall RG75, solid state with one 12", actually sounds great. Has reverb that you could drown a large dog in. Yamaha powered mixer of some sort. Haven't tried it yet and probably won't know how to turn it on. Tascam 688 Midi mixing board of some sort with a cassette player. Powers up, I have no idea how to test it or run it. An old Shure Vocal Master PA. Powers up, sounds very much like a battery powered amp with a dying battery. Good boat anchor. 1970s Ampeg V-4 head. The 7027a tubes were missing altogether. I put a set of 6L6 in it just to try it. It works. Some humming and static but good enough for me to spend $100 on a set of Sovteks so I can sell it. It's cosmetically horrible; you can't even read the control panel anymore. Still a V-4 though, and marketable. Mid 60s Ampeg B-15N Portaflex. Cosmetically poor but sounds wonderful. Smooth, deep tone, no harshness at all. And zero hum or 60 cycle buzz. I may keep this one just to say I own one. It's filthy but I'll just clean it enough so I don't get Ebola. The chrome logo is broken and the plexiglass logo is missing, both of which are available in repro form. I paid $400 for the pile. I cleaned the pots on the Crate and sold it the next day for $60. I put a few pieces on ebay and I will know the V-4's fate probably Saturday when the new tubes come in. I'll want to clean the pots anyway, and date it at the same time. The Randall.... that may get weird. It's "designed in USA" and made in China. I repaired a couple nasty tears in the vinyl, otherwise it's in good condition. I have some hideous gold paisley vinyl or naugahyde and some red cloth with an India-esque theme, elephants and all. The Randall might get stripped down and recovered.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Cool. I can almost smell them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 That ampeg is looking pretty gnarly.. Almost everyone bass player played with back in high school days used one of those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimt Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Nice little haul. Those ampegs are cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Ampeg V4 was my 1st serious amp. bought it in '74. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 quite a collection! The Ampeg looks great. You almost wouldn't want to clean it. someone close to me is selling a 70's Gibson amp. I was curious for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Nice!!! 👍🥰 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Good score, anymore dirt on that amp and you could grow spuds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 That Ampeg reminds me of the 57 Bassman I bought at a yard sale and sold to Naked Clarke on the Tele Forum 20 years ago. He restored it and sent me pics, but I lost that computer and the pics years ago. Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihcmac Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Very cool Fliptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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