*** is with this head? 60's 70's amp ID

[Passinwind]

Should make some noise, and sound better than any of the speakers from the amp's era for sure.

Yep. The U65R was my first amp, used for both bass and guitar. The nicest thing I can say about it is that I managed to piss off my neighbors pretty regularly.

 

[Jon Lars]

Also, Olson Electronics:



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Oh, yes, that "treasure hunt". Several customer names are printed throughout the catalog - find yours and win a prize!

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Me and a buddy built hi-fi speakers from parts ordered from those catalogs.
Boxes, crossovers, 15" woofers, 5 inch mids, and 2 piezo tweeters. Even the foam grill material.
The equivalent speakers would have cost 5x as much!
Powered by my 50watt Marantz amp,
I LOVED them...

My neighbors HATED them..

 

[thetragichero]

there's been a layer version of this (black faceplate) with the matching cab on Craigslist about an hour away for like a year. I've wanted to pick it up for esses and gees but never end up thinking about it when i'm in the area.
this one looks even cooler

 

[brianrost]

The case and looks date from the late 60's. It's a Univox UB250. There were several revisions of this amp that looked a little different.

I was thinking that but the one I owned had a different front panel. It was my very first amp. Later versions in the 70s had both bass and treble .

 

[nilorius]

So, You got a small practice amp for a good money, that can die tommorow or after a year. Congrats!

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Lafayette Electronics. Heathkit. Allied Radio. Ah, the good old days.

Put a soldering iron in these bored kids’ hands and let them learn something useful!

( grumble grumble grumble )

Oh, cool amp op. I started with a Bogden PA amp back in the days of the dinosaurs.

My first electric guitar amp was a ‘Lafayette....it eventually succumbed a “Pete Townsend moment” after one too many cold ones.

 

[Johnny Crab]

The 60s were not kind to bassists who didn’t have deep pockets. How many high school gyms saw the sudden demise of just such an amp?

LOL!!!!
My late Dad brought one of these home with the cabinet(4x8's or something like that) for my 10th birthday in 1965. That started it all. Thanks Dad!

Did get to play larger places thanks to a friend who would let me borrow his Fender Dual Showman that had a 2x15 cabinet with it.

 

[cruzois]

You are SO right on all these points, and especially about the affordability of instruments these days!

Maybe the best evidence of this is to adjust that amp's original $132 price into today's dollars - a quick trip to the inflation calculator (Invalid Link Removed) shows that the aspiring bassist in 1969 would have had to lay out the equivalent of $964 for that puppy.

And according to this vintage Fender catalog site (1970 Fender Guitar And Bass Catalog, Part 1), a 1970 P-bass listed for $293.50, which is the equivalent of $2018 today.

Think about what a person starting out today could get for $3000 — we have it GOOD.

My ‘71 fretless p was 290.00.....fretted was 295.

 

[Sid Fang]

 

[Jim C]

And according to this vintage Fender catalog site (1970 Fender Guitar And Bass Catalog, Part 1), a 1970 P-bass listed for $293.50, which is the equivalent of $2018 today.
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Although Fender was about 30% off of list back then.
I bought a 1973 P bass in natural new in 1973 (lawn cutting money) and it was something like $237 out the door.
I think natural finish was an upcharge back then but I could be mistaken.
That is approx. $1,430 by todays standard so US P basses really have not gone up much in price when adjusted for inflation.

 

[Sid Fang]

Except that you’d have to cut more lawns today to save $1430 than you did in ‘73 to save $237. Minimum/kid wages have not kept up with inflation.

 

[ShaunNecro]

Having had another Univox amp, I can confirm that they inflated their wattage moreso than any other brand.

 

[Aidenn7]

it's not as loud on my accugroove tri 110.. and it doesn't like my peavey gbass as I'm guess it don't like active basses.. it needs more speakers or bigger ones.. that hydrive was much high wattage like 500 watts.. if anyone is interested how to run these things..

 

[MCF]

Wow ! Sold for the same thing today it listed for when new.

When guys my age were starting out, more than few wound up with an amp like that and a Teisco E-Lek-Trick Bass Geetar straight out of the Green Stamp catalog. We'd have easily killed any number of people to get the inexpensive but great basses and amps you could start out with today. At least I could buy Black Diamond E-Lek-Trick Bass Geetar strings at the corner drug store . . . .

OK, here goes, 'Walk Don't Run' in G, 1-2-3 . . . . .

Our normal Saturday night when I was 9 - 12. Dad drove us downtown for dinner out, then to the movie theatre (one screen). Stop at Thrifty Drug after the show for ice cream, check out the records and latest Teiscos. They rarely had basses. Had to settle for a Sears Silvertone when the time came when I was 12.