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Nashville knows Traynor!

edencab

edencab

Aug 14, 2013
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A friend of mine is in Nashville and he posted pictures from a show he saw. As a Canadian and huge Traynor fan this caught my eye. Just nice to see.

That is all.


@GrapeBass

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I had a nice little Traynor practice combo... still do, just can't remember whose house I left it at. *I'm 95% sure it's at our guitar player's house. I keep a couple pieces of gear there so I don't have to carry an amp/bass to practice. I think that little amp is upstairs next to the piano.

Funny the things that you notice in pictures... my eyes went straight to the tip bucket. I don't have any trouble remembering those days. :meh:
 
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I gigged with these in the 1980s and 90s, they both worked great. Pics not of mine, both sold long ago.

TS120B, solid state, 1-15 but I also had a matching 1-15 extension. 75 watts with internal speaker, 120 watts with both speakers. Used in country, top 40, classic rock covers and R&B bands. Actually rarely used with the extension. As reliable as any Peavey but I thought it sounded better. Bought new 1982 for $450 with the extension cab, retired around 1990.

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BassMate, tubes, also 1-15. With two EL84s in the power stage probably 15-20 watts, I ran it with all three knobs at 3:00 and it had hair on the sound but not full blown distortion. Dig the fuse on the front panel! Used at rehearsals and live with an R&B band where it kept up with a Deluxe Reverb. Bought used 1983 for $65 :thumbsup:, retired in early 90s. I should have kept this one!

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No Traynor for me, but I've got two Yorkville BLOC80B amps, a Yorkville BLOC250B, and a Yorkville YBA-4 tube amp. Love the YBA-4, but it is far too heavy for me to try to move now; ditto the 250B. And I doubt I have any more gigs ahead of me that will require that kind of volume. If they themselves do not become too heavy, the BLOC80s and my Ampeg VR micro-stack will become my go-tos.
 
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GretschWretch said:
No Traynor for me, but I've got two Yorkville BLOC80B amps, a Yorkville BLOC250B, and a Yorkville YBA-4 tube amp. Love the YBA-4, but it is far too heavy for me to try to move now; ditto the 250B. And I doubt I have any more gigs ahead of me that will require that kind of volume. If they themselves do not become too heavy, the BLOC80s and my Ampeg VR micro-stack will become my go-tos.
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A BLOC80B was my first amp til it got stolen... I didn't figure out how to get a better sound of it than the headphone jack into my parents' old brown Koss headphones. But I had no idea what I was doing.

To this day, 35 years later, my friend from that first band still calls it "Bloc Bob" and I love it because of that. He had a Peavey Bandit, and a more recent joke was that we should start a band called Bloc Bob and the Bandits".

But I digress...
 
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