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Thanks for looking into it for me.that's very kind of you 👍

thanks 🙏

Yeah, it would be cool to ask him if he remembers anything about the SVT amps—whether they kept the 6146Bs and modified the 12BH7 driver tube, or if Bill Hughes swapped out the 6146Bs for 6550s during the tour? Based on the interview, I'd tend to think that Bill Hughes decided to just tweak...

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Great story!! Your comment about Bill is so funny—it’s true that your wife had more reason to be afraid of Mr. Perks. He’s the only one who used a pseudonym instead of his real name—that’s already suspicious! 😅 I think I must have watched the movie "Gimme Shelter" at least 666 times—the devil...

You're so lucky!! It's my favorite Stones tour, and with B.B. King as the opening act—it's heaven for me... I was born too late, in 1974. I'm going to sue my parents. In the meantime, I'm going to build a time machine using AI so I can go back and see the 1969 tour. 😉

Oh, right, that's impressive!

Thank you so much for this very interesting technical analysis!!!

You're talking about the Mesa Boogie TT800 that you modified, right?

I read an interview with Bill Hughes that really caught my attention. I thought the Stones had used Ampeg SVTs with 6146B tubes throughout the '69 tour. But since they had reliability issues, could Bill Hughes have made modifications between shows to install 6550s in place of the 6146Bs, along...

hi i'm a french fan of fender basses and passionate about fender strings and vc squier. it's not easy for me to find gear in france!!!!! i should have been born american !!! great your photos of the factory in mexico you have others?