Zhivago's Vintage Hotties - 1957 Fender Bassman

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Zhivago's Vintage Hotties - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by zhivago » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:24 pm

I'd love to have an amp like that...I probably wouldn't have any place to crank it at, but still...

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:-* :-*
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by øøøøøøø » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:38 pm

gotta love the beautiful 7-layer interleaved Triad output transformer.  That is the heart and soul of the tweed bassman. 
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Post by BenHagerty » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:49 pm

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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by zhivago » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:50 pm

øøøøøøø wrote: gotta love the beautiful 7-layer interleaved Triad output transformer.  That is the heart and soul of the tweed bassman. 
hell yes!

it must be quite an experience playing that on the edge of breakup and then hitting a booster to push it over the edge!!  8) :-*
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by skip » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:09 pm

freakin beautiful
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by bubbles_horwitz » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:47 pm

the guy may be a jerk, but he takes some great pictures.
i think you forgot this photo. the amp came from my hometown at one point:
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by jgs61 » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:55 pm

:? :? :?

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Post by StevenO » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:38 pm

jgs61 wrote: :? :? :?

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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by light years » Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:31 pm

i like my silverface bassman head better :P
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by Pogue Mahone » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:33 am

Your killin me with all this tweed, one is cooler than the next!
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by OffYourFace » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:02 am

hmmm....  the chassis looks like a Marshall  ;)
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by Orang Goreng » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:09 am

Damn you all to heck with your GAS-inducing tweed! Yesterday I was playing around with the tweed settings on my V-amp, and got a very close approximation of a sound I'd been looking for for a while. So guess what, now I want the real thing, which I assume is either a closer approximation or exactly the thing I want for those particular parts I have in mind. Meh!
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by stevejamsecono » Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:02 pm

So awesome. I would love one of those in combo form. As is, mine is pretty nice though, has "the sound" well enough :)

and damn, it does crunch up nice. We used to gig around with another band from here called The Near Escape, Their guitarist used one, and got all sorts of nice sounds with no pedals whatseover. I've been jealous ever since....
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by nealescott » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:05 am

NICE!!!

checked out this guy??...

he makes amazing tweed clones and chassis' so you can tweak to your own cab/speaker preference... he also has some good modern mods he can add.

http://www.stu-daddyamps.com/servlet/Detail?no=30
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Re: Beauty of the Tweed - 1957 Fender Bassman

Post by zhivago » Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:17 am

I'm in tweed heaven already...my amp at home is a tweed deluxe, modded for 6L6s, with a 12" Celestion Gold, housed in a Bassman-size cab :)
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