![]() Think it'll be with me for awhile (and I still have my Reissue stuff including a 59 Bassman Ltd). It's not quite as clean as it looks in this pic, but being 59 years old, it's in a lot better shape than I am at 62. But my first foray back in the vintage Fender amp club (I once had 14 vintage Fender amps ranging from roughly 1949 to 1964), and I'm pretty happy. This is the 1965 / 66 Fender USA Blackface Bandmaster Tube Electric Guitar. So, I'm now the proud owner of a 62 Bandmaster! Yes, I'd still like a Bassman. Welcome to All Music Incs Musicdungeon, you are looking at a great vintage piece. Got talking dollars and eventually got a few more shaved off the price. Not the amp head. So I went, looked at it, got it in a room and played some. Fender ‘65/‘66 Bandmaster 2x12 cabinet Reverb Speaker cabinet only. No vintage Bassman on the site, but the Bandmaster was there, and marked down. Bandmaster started out as a 1 by 15-inch combo before expanding to a 3 by 10-inch combo in 1955. As was the case with most vintage Fender amps, the Bandmaster underwent a series of both cosmetic and electronic design changes through its production. Getting off early, I figure a quick drive to Chicago just to check the place out. Overview The classic Fender Bandmaster is one of Fender's most iconic early amplifiers. A couple more days pass and we finish the outage at the plant. Its really cool, and you can use bass/treble controls for. You then use the preamp tube for the output, and the 1st channel for the return. ![]() What you need to do this is a spring reverb tank, which isnt hard to come by. What mines had done is had the tremolo replaced with a reverb circuit. as he's panning around, I spot a nice looking Blonde/Oxblood rig and think "wow, that's still there? Wonder what's wrong with it".Īlways thought these were the best looking series of Fender amps. Ive got a 66 bandmaster and I love it same circuit. A day or two later, a Facebook Stratocaster page Admin does a Facebook live video in CME. The bass channel of the AB165 and AA864 is much mellower and deeper than the normal channel of any AB763 amps since it is voiced for bass guitars. The not so good Missing grill logo and handle.Tolex is Kinda tattered.Not bad for a 56 year old guitar cabinet.Ba. Not the amp head.The good: original grill original tolex, oxford speakers look original (check date code in pic) and tilt legs. While there, a friend (who doesn't even play) messages me about spending 2 hours at CME, he loved it. It is 50w loud with power supply and output transformers sized approx. Fender ‘65/‘66 Bandmaster 2x12 cabinet Reverb Speaker cabinet only. British Army Musician Bandmaster Cap Badge KC 2 Lugs BRASS ANTIQUE Original. Then I get a job call to work Byron Nuclear plant about 90 miles away. Prices seemed decent but I wasn't in the market. And as to why I asked, as Paul Harvey used to say "and now here's to the rest of the story".Ī couple months back, I spotted a couple blonde/oxblood vintage amps in an ad for Chicago Music Exchange (think they had a Bassman and a Bandmaster at the time).
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