New railbridge at Diss

[ccmmick]

Originally Posted by pre65

She sounds lovely through all my home made hi-fi, especially the valve amplifiers.

Well we are back to amps are we.
I was fortunate to buy one of the late Al Hodge's amps
a Marshall JCM 2000-60w Super Lead it is a realy beautiful sound.
He was smashing bloke so sad he died at only 55 WHY ????????????????

ccmmick.

[Dave Rowland]

Valve amps are for weightlifters!

[pre65]

Originally Posted by Dave Rowland

Valve amps are for weightlifters!

My latest monoblock amps (single mono) are built on two bits of 18mm plywood (we call it breadboarding) and I can just manage to comfortably lift each one.

It's all the "iron" (transformers etc) that does it !!

Most of my other amps are lightweight by comparison.

[Dave Rowland]

My Fender Twin Reverb lives on the floor nowadays; I reckon if I attempted to put it somewhere higher up I'd either throw m back out, or develop an immediate hernia! It was far too heavy when I got it secondhand in 1974, and I was reasonably fit then. I moved to a flat in Southsea in 1980, it was up five flights of stairs. Uuurgh. Since I'd got six guitars at the time as well, I came to an arrangement with the local pub landlord - I could keep all the gear in the large pub kitchen free of charge, providing that we could occasionally jam in the pub during afternoon closing hours. Suited me fine!

[ccmmick]

Back in the late 60s i bought first secondhand Marshall head amp and a 4x12''cabinet from Plymouth i only had a three wheel van at the time a bit like Del boy only mine was blue.
We used to do gigs in Truro Newquay Penzance St Austell i used to take as much in the van and the drummer used to take what he could in his ford anglia van plus singer and bass player quite a squeeze.
How the two vans lasted i do not know.

ccmmick.

[Dave Rowland]

Originally Posted by ccmmick

Back in the late 60s...... and the drummer used to take what he could in his ford anglia van plus singer and bass player quite a squeeze. ccmmick.

The first band I was in (never got paid for playing anwhere), the drummer was the only of the four of us with transport, and we had to ferry all our gear (not much of it, thankfully) around in his AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE!!!!

[ccmmick]

Originally Posted by Dave Rowland

The first band I was in (never got paid for playing anwhere), the drummer was the only of the four of us with transport, and we had to ferry all our gear (not much of it, thankfully) around in his AUSTIN HEALEY SPRITE!!!!

You did for the fun of it i wish you had a picture of the Austin i bet it was quite a sight .

ccmmick.

[Dave Rowland]

Originally Posted by ccmmick

You did for the fun of it i wish you had a picture of the Austin i bet it was quite a sight . ccmmick.

We had to do it in bits; luckily we only played VERY locally, so it didn't take too long, but his drum kit went first, then the bass & guitar stuff (the singer didn't have any gear!), then he'd take the bassist & singer, then pick up his girlfriend, and me & my girlfriend, so there'd be FOUR of us in a 2-seater. It was a bit of a hoot!

[Gandalf]

I regularly had 4 of us in my Mk2 Sprite,
For a squash try 4 in a Messerschmidt bubble car, two in the back and one on my lap.
Fun days indeed.
John (G)

[ccmmick]

Originally Posted by Gandalf

I regularly had 4 of us in my Mk2 Sprite,
For a squash try 4 in a Messerschmidt bubble car, two in the back and one on my lap.
Fun days indeed.
John (G)

My uncle had Isetta bubble car and yes they were great days indeed .

ccmmick.