I should’ve waited to start this thread till I got home as I do not have anymore than two photographs of this on my phone. long story short, I bought a brand new acoustic b300hd head and after a gig that along with half my bands gear (75% mine) was stolen from my guitarists vehicle right outside the venue. We had shows lined up that whole week so I had to go in direct for a minute. At the time I used a bass with passive emg’s and active eq. Well I got tired of that so I went searching with a $100 budget for a head. I ended up in either a pawn shop or sam ash music store. I saw this beast {} (it’s taken apart in this photo) i’ll add more when I get home from work. Im just impatient and have to do this now. Little bit obsessed with this forum.. It’s old it’s dated 70’s I will aqquire the serial # too. But most importantly, it has a name on the back handwritten. ‘Steve Fryette’ Now honestly for an almost 50Lb dinosaur head for $100, I was sold. I tested it with my EV B-115 cab and it pushed a lot of sound. This thing was powerful. you can see here on the main board it says Gallien Krueger. {} Funny thing is, I sent an email over to the Fryette business. Their response was ‘That isn’t ours we have nothing to do with that’ something along the lines of that.. Im curious. Should I try to figure this out or just accept that someone wrote his name on the head to make it sell easier. (again more photos will be up in a matter of hours)
Looks like a '70s GK 400B that's been messed with a bit, at least cosmetically. Fryette was a repair tech at the Valley Arts shop in LA in the late '70s, so it's entirely possible he owned/repaired/modded it back in the day. Still, wouldn't really be a VHT/Fryette product in the official sense, but a great old amp either way!
@The Eristic Interesting. So maybe this guy modified it perhaps. I was surprised at how good it sounded. In a couple hours i’ll upload more photos of the Outside. I just wish the fryette business was more into it.
