Thomas Southern

On 30/07/2020 at 18:22, Dad3353 said:

Not much of a guitar player (I'm a drummer...), but I'll confess to being more than partial to a nice, vintage, Hiwatt amp. I had a Custom 50 for quite a while; it got left behind when I moved to France, mid '70s. Our min bass amp is a Hiwatt DR205, a 200w PA head, with KT88 valves. These were useful at one time for demolishing WWII bunkers along the Normandy coastline..!
Nowadays I get by with a Roland JC60, or directly into the PC through my pedalboard when I'm recording stuff. S'not often, these days, though. 

I've a Bassman 50w, too, but it's been in retirement for some tie now. I must fetch it out again soon...

I like the old Hiwatt simplistic p.a. Head! Wow! Nice bass rig and guitar. 

On 30/07/2020 at 03:16, ezbass said:

As you’ve been setting up for a good while, hopefully you’ll be able to wait and ride out this, what should be, short sell off storm. You mention GC, do we assume that you’re US based?

Yes, sorry I didn’t mention it. GC Guitar Center. It is where many Americans go and play and buy equipment.

I enjoy playing what I’ve collected over the years. I need to thin the herd eventually.

Oh my goodness!!!! I would have been torn apart about losing the Hiwatt!!! Mine is a ‘75. Super clean! Besides dust. The partridge transformers barely have any corruption on them. It is unreal. Sounds great. I used  to have a super clean ‘68 Fender Bassman. Sold it 19 years ago. Picked up what I believe to be a ‘71 Bassman. Rather clean. I need to look as the pots to date it. 

Thank you. I enjoy talking about gear, performing and guitars. Sometimes back in. Appalachian hills it gets a little lonely. I would say it much like Northern Scotland if I was to guess something as close like the highlands. I’ve owned some wonderful gear over years, performed at many festivals/venues and have some beautiful guitars/gear now. Thanks for reaching out and clearing up that it is not a live chat. Kinda figured it out after a few hours. Lol Here are some current amps I am working with. Really enjoy them both. Early this morning broke a Mesa Boogie DC-3 amplifier and ran it through.a Marshall 2x12 loaded with Celestion Seventy 80s. I have an old JCM800 cabinet loaded with the same speakers except they were made in England. I was surprised that the Chinese build on the same speakers is extremely close to the English broken in cabinet. The little red cabinet is a custom build 2x10 Ragin Cajun Eminence custom build. The speakers have a similar frequency rating response/rating as the Seventy 80s. Yet the 12” speaker really makes the difference on the tone. Both are good just apples and oranges.

I guess I’m my search engine words I wasn’t specific. I was thinking this was a chat type situation rather than messaging. 

Sadly I have been in the works to open up a store the last 2 1/2 years. COVID hits and people start selling gear cheap! I know vultures will be grabbing some items for when prices come back up. Yet I’m sitting on good brand new guitars that have never been played. I saw one that was similar to what I had and the guy was asking almost a grand less than I was wanting to sell mine. Yet my prices are cheaper than GC, many online companies. Granted his was used but in really good shape. Logically, if I was buying, I would go with his guitar. I was hoping to help folks out with them being able to buy new/mint gear and some good used gear that could help them cost wise. Again I was cheaper than most price wise but some of the prices I’ve been seeing, it is definitely a buyers market!

I know it is early in the morning for you folks in the old country. Just awake and want to chat with someone about guitars and the like. Maybe I need to wait for folks to awake. I’m a chronic insomniac and should be on the guitar rather than a computer! Lol

Hello, anyone up who wants to chat about guitars and relations to such topic.