Think it'll be with me for awhile (and I still have my Reissue stuff including a 59 Bassman Ltd). It's a 1 x 12 combo smaller than a Deluxe Reverb, but 6L6 powered. In a easily portable amp my favorite is the Brown Vibrolux. Today's volumes on stage are much different for most of us and the Bandmaster may be better. Trevor Boone demos a 1961 Fender Bandmaster at Emerald City Guitars Emerald City Guitars 45.5K subscribers 8. It's not quite as clean as it looks in this pic, but being 59 years old, it's in a lot better shape than I am at 62. The Bandmaster gives more grit and breakup (or did at volumes back in the day). But my first foray back in the vintage Fender amp club (I once had 14 vintage Fender amps ranging from roughly 1949 to 1964), and I'm pretty happy. Fender 600 amp, late 1940s, 445 Fender Bandmaster, 1961,446 Fender Bandmaster, 1963,447 Fender Bassman, 1962,448 Fender Champ 1952,449 Fender Champ 1955. So, I'm now the proud owner of a 62 Bandmaster! Yes, I'd still like a Bassman. Got talking dollars and eventually got a few more shaved off the price. So I went, looked at it, got it in a room and played some. No vintage Bassman on the site, but the Bandmaster was there, and marked down. ![]() Getting off early, I figure a quick drive to Chicago just to check the place out. A couple more days pass and we finish the outage at the plant. as he's panning around, I spot a nice looking Blonde/Oxblood rig and think "wow, that's still there? Wonder what's wrong with it".Īlways thought these were the best looking series of Fender amps. A day or two later, a Facebook Stratocaster page Admin does a Facebook live video in CME. While there, a friend (who doesn't even play) messages me about spending 2 hours at CME, he loved it. Then I get a job call to work Byron Nuclear plant about 90 miles away. Prices seemed decent but I wasn't in the market. ![]() And as to why I asked, as Paul Harvey used to say "and now here's to the rest of the story".Ī couple months back, I spotted a couple blonde/oxblood vintage amps in an ad for Chicago Music Exchange (think they had a Bassman and a Bandmaster at the time).
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