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#9,141
I can get a $100 Peavey 80s TNT 100 shipped for $100. And I wonder once more, just for old times' sake? And I think gonna pass on that. I know it's the real deal, and giggable because I owned and gigged mine. This here PJB BG-400 would look to the Peavey like it came from another dimension or something. Sure, the BG-400 is unexpectedly heavy the same way the Rumble is unexpectedly light.

And what became of my Peavey TNT 100 that I kept until the end? The end being a new beginning for me in retirement as I picked up my bass again. The bass that I kept in the original HSC until life was ready. It's the Ampeg BA-108v2 I delighted in! (before the PJB)

Speaking of delight, in the summer of 19 a friend and I picked blueberries. It's with her son I made a pay it forward deal. You take the amp today, it's yours to do with as you wish, but take care to pay it forward and we're all cool. He's totally happy (says it's LOUD), his mum is happy, I'm happy, and not paying anyone two hundred dollars to have another thank you I do like blueberries

The new amps sound better, may even be better and for all I know someone, somewhere has programmed an 80s Peavey sim the same way there's a Kasino sim to be found.
 
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GwenOnBass said:
I can get a $100 Peavey 80s TNT 100 shipped for $100. And I wonder once more, just for old times' sake? And I think gonna pass on that. I know it's the real deal, and giggable because I owned and gigged mine. This here PJB BG-400 would look to the Peavey like it came from another dimension or something. Sure, the BG-400 is unexpectedly heavy the same way the Rumble is unexpectedly light.

And what became of my Peavey TNT 100 that I kept until the end? The end being a new beginning for me in retirement as I picked up my bass again. The bass that I kept in the original HSC until life was ready. It's the Ampeg BA-108v2 I delighted in! (before the PJB)

Speaking of delight, in the summer of 19 a friend and I picked blueberries. It's with her son I made a pay it forward deal. You take the amp today, it's yours to do with as you wish, but take care to pay it forward and we're all cool. He's totally happy (says it's LOUD), his mum is happy, I'm happy, and not paying anyone two hundred dollars to have another thank you I do like blueberries

The new amps sound better, may even be better and for all I know someone, somewhere has programmed an 80s Peavey sim the same way there's a Kasino sim to be found.
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I'd be shocked if anyone who does the programming has even the slightest idea what a "Kasino" is. Casino, yes.
 
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iagtrplyr said:
I believe I babbled something about admitting the amp if it was guessed, but there’s been so much gentle teasing going here in lieu of the actual name, I am now forced by law to withhold such answer until Wednesday when it’s due to arrive. Then let the games truly begin.
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We are either teasers or terrors, oops.
 
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iagtrplyr said:
Why, was it that bad sounding?
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At the time (mid-late 1960s) we weren’t sniffing corks. There were three sounds: Fender, Marshall, everything else. What made the Baldwin Exterminator stand out were its physical size (and weight), its sheer loudness and the baby blue side panels. It was a solid state behemoth before we [royal we] figured out how to make solid state audio sound at all musical. They were great for organs (Vox, Rhodes and Farfisa had keyboards but weren’t yet widely called “keyboards”), OK for bass and awful for guitar. But they were loud which was a victory for their sales team.
 
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iagtrplyr said:
Thanks admit it, I’m TERRORible!
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Iago, the TERRORible!

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GwenOnBass said:
LOUD wins a lot of hearts wherever there is amplification. :)

Loud, detailed, accurate, and articulate costs more.
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We noticed the truth of this one night while watching a violin player sawing away over a rock song. She's very skilled, but what she was doing then was a double stop with fast bowing. Not technical at all, super easy. But attitude and amplification had the crowd going wild.
 
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StatesideRambler said:
At the time (mid-late 1960s) we weren’t sniffing corks. There were three sounds: Fender, Marshall, everything else. What made the Baldwin Exterminator stand out were its physical size (and weight), its sheer loudness and the baby blue side panels. It was a solid state behemoth before we [royal we] figured out how to make solid state audio sound at all musical. They were great for organs (Vox, Rhodes and Farfisa had keyboards but weren’t yet widely called “keyboards”), OK for bass and awful for guitar. But they were loud which was a victory for their sales team.
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Stateside, your description alone sent shockwaves through my body upon remembering the sounds emanating from record players, pocket radios, and cassette recorders that’s as a kid I loved dearly but now realize the sound was incredibly harsh and in fact, unmusical.
 
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iagtrplyr said:
Stateside, your description alone sent shockwaves through my body upon remembering the sounds emanating from record players, pocket radios, and cassette recorders that’s as a kid I loved dearly but now realize the sound was incredibly harsh and in fact, unmusical.
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And yet that harsh and trebbly sound captured our imaginations and propelled us into flights of fancy.
 
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RodRy said:
And yet that harsh and trebbly sound captured our imaginations and propelled us into flights of fancy.
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Agreed, RR. Spent many a night listening to The Big 89, WLS 890 in Chicago. That station is what caused the love affair with music. Where else could you hear Jim Croce, Gregg Allman, and Steely Dan all with the an evening.

And of course, the listening of music made a kid desire the needed equipment to at first listen to it and then ultimately play it. Memories are forever.
 
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iagtrplyr said:
Spent many a night listening to The Big 89, WLS 890 in Chicago. ... Jim Croce, Gregg Allman, and Steely Dan all with the an evening.
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All those names were years away from debuting on the radio when I lived in a Chicago suburb in the sixties and listened to WLS and later, WCFL. Lessee, the Silver Dollar Survey, Clark Weber in the morning, Ron Riley either drivetime or evening shift and (before he was fired yet again) Dick Biondi, ”The Wild I-tralian!” Somewhere in the seventies rock radio went through big changes and WLS switched to a talk format. A college classmate of mine was the station manager and arranged to donate the record library to our alma mater.
 
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