Rescued Gear

[davidmurphy]

A guy (unknown at the time, now a friend) gave me an Ampeg V-6B 2x15 cab that he was going to throw away. It just needed the tolex stuck back down in some spots and the speakers remounted to eliminate some air leaks. Huge cab but nice.

I bought a Bassman 100 for it, and the friend said he might have another one in his garage that he'd fried. It turned out he threw it away....but...he did find a Bassman 50 that he was going to toss. He said he'd bought it for $35 in high school from a friend and it wasn't very loud. New tubes and tube sockets, a couple of resistors and some new caps...it's fine. And I did the work myself as a learning project.

Put the Bassman 50 and the Ampeg 215 together and it's a nice rig that's louder than it should be.

That's PROPER rescuing.
Fair play to you for doing all that work. I'd have been lost.

 

[davidmurphy]

My neighbor has an old white Ric in a closet. He plays guitar and doesn't play bass. I asked if he'd be interested in selling and he said no, for nostalgic reasons (Mike Watt's signature is on it somewhere).

What is it with Ric's?

Maybe we should set up a shelter for abandoned Ric's. We could do it at my house. I wouldn't mind, really.......