Vintage Vox AC30, double penetration, crank gain/treble before you get there, Rat if I must, to the only number of watts you'll ever need.

Clean or dirty, it's still like gleaming, heavy pearls rolling off the bottom of a beautiful, Hipgnosis-album-sleeve rock lady.

They are the only amps in the world. No others exist.

I love my fender twin 135w silverface.

Sometimes I pull two power tubes so I can really crank it. Tonight, I will try to bridge the reverb i/o on the thing, as I hear it will make for another preamp (gain) stage.

I sold one once to pay for college. I missed the bastard, really. I even missed looking at it.

steve wrote:Klang: Chooglin': Bassman

I always figured the Kustom tuck and roll amps were the sound of Chooglin'. But all I learned of the Choogle I learned from Fogerty.

We gonna choogle tonight.
Ben Adrian

edit: spelling correction

i second the bassman

I third (or fourth) the bassman. My first amp was an older silverface Bassman.
It couldn't take it.
>POOF!<
The mid/late '70's Marshall JMP amps are pretty much Bassman's, just beefed up.

what are your favorites?

CHUNK!: 6550 loaded 50 watt Marshall JMP MK II Master Volume / w/ 4-25 watt greenbacks

KER-CHUNK: 30 watt Hi Watt Master Volume /w/ 4-25 watt greenbacks

K-GERG!: All tube 50 watt EARTH head /w/ 4-25 watt greenbacks

Redline wrote:

i second the bassman

I third (or fourth) the bassman. My first amp was an older silverface Bassman.
It couldn't take it.
>POOF!<
The mid/late '70's Marshall JMP amps are pretty much Bassman's, just beefed up.

They're beefed up tweed bassman circuits. The Blackface/Silverface bassman amps and the tweed bassman amps are drastically different.

Cheers!
Ben Adrian

Yeah, I'd love a tweedy Bassman just to have in my living room or something.

Maybe I could buy it for a first anniversary present. "Hon? Didn't you say you wanted a tweed Bassman amp for our anniversary? I thought that's what I heard you say..."


hmmmm.

Redline wrote:Yeah, I'd love a tweedy Bassman just to have in my living room or something.

Maybe I could buy it for a first anniversary present. "Hon? Didn't you say you wanted a tweed Bassman amp for our anniversary? I thought that's what I heard you say..."

hmmmm.

That would be a loud living room.

For a while, when I wasn't playing guitar with anyone, I had my Blackface Fender amp just acting as a lamp stand in my living room. It was the coolest looking lamp stand.

Ben Adrian

That would be a loud living room.

I used to have a 1/2 stack in my living room. Now it's a little Vox practice amp
This is a fun site:
http://www.tone-lizard.com/Amplifier_Myths.htm

At this very moment I have before me a friend's 1964 Blackface Princeton Reverb.

First true blackface I've ever encountered. Absolutely gorgeous sound.

I'd recommend it if they weren't so fucking over-priced.

Fuck it. I'll recommend one anyway.

Pure L wrote:At this very moment I have before me a friend's 1964 Blackface Princeton Reverb.

First true blackface I've ever encountered. Absolutely gorgeous sound.

I'd recommend it if they weren't so fucking over-priced.

Fuck it. I'll recommend one anyway.

I really like Allen Amps. allenamps.com
Kits and pre-built amps. They're not cheap, but they're less than a vintage Blackface, and they sound great. An old room mate had one.

Cheers!

Ben Adrian