Wow! 200 watt Ampeg V4B!!!!!

[ddbassGA]

RE: OP
The price is high yes, but not by $300. It would be difficult to find a recently capped, tubed V4 or V4B for $600, let alone one in this condition. Now if this one needs tubes and caps yes its $300 overpriced.

 

[77PBass]

RE: OP
The price is high yes, but not by $300. It would be difficult to find a recently capped, tubed V4 or V4B for $600, let alone one in this condition. Now if this one needs tubes and caps yes its $300 overpriced.

I will bet dollars to doughnuts that Sam Ash did zero work to it and probably got it for $250

 

[77PBass]

I used to walk past those stores on 48th street anytime I got into Manhattan. Ash, Mannys, We Buy Guitars.... Ah, the good old days...

Is We Buy the store I am thinking of or was We Buy on the south side of the street closer to 7th Avenue?

 

[lowend1]

The one next to the garage was We Buy Guitars. On the other side of the street (Manny's side), was Stuyvesant Music, where for years they had Randy Hobbs' old Gibson Explorer bass in the window. IIRC, you couldn't even get in the store - they had some kind of wacky entrance/counter just inside the doorway. Rudy's, Manny's, Charlie LoBue's place (Guitar Lab???), Alex (Axe) Music, 48th Street Music - even the Electro Harmonix store - were all there as well.

 

[SactoBass]

Guess I should read the whole thread before responding. Funny how we almost said the same htings though.

LOL! Good (or deranged??) minds think alike!

 

[Stiggs]

The one next to the garage was We Buy Guitars. On the other side of the street (Manny's side), was Stuyvesant Music, where for years they had Randy Hobbs' old Gibson Explorer bass in the window. IIRC, you couldn't even get in the store - they had some kind of wacky entrance/counter just inside the doorway. Rudy's, Manny's, Charlie LoBue's place (Guitar Lab???), Alex (Axe) Music, 48th Street Music - even the Electro Harmonix store - were all there as well.

In 1987 I bought my 1978 Fender pbass at We Buy Guitars for 500 bucks. It's still my main squeeze. That street sucks now. Sam Ash ruined that whole street. I never go there any more....What a shame its was such a great place hang out and meet people