![]() ![]() 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. So, I'm now the proud owner of a 62 Bandmaster! Yes, I'd still like a Bassman. Here's the insides of a '57 Bandmaster Reissue. They also added 10k interstage grid stoppers on all the preamp tubes to reduce noise. They used a mdified PT and GZ34 rectifier instead of a 5U4. A candy red Weltmeister LM-25-12 Bandmaster piano accordion that served as part of Christine McVie's touring equipment for Fleetwood Mac and can be seen being played live by McVie on stage on numerous occasions for performances of the song 'Tusk.' Together with an accordion microphone. Fender took some liberties with the '57 Bandmaster spec to increase the B+/plate voltage and tighten the amp up. Along wiht a 26 watt power section, running proper 5881 power tubes, it is an amp with manageable volume levels and really cool tone. Part of the 'coolness' of a Bandmaster (Tweed), is the mismatch between the 4 ohm O.T. Got talking dollars and eventually got a few more shaved off the price. Click To Request A Pre-Sale Condition Report. It should have been back around 2013 or so. So I went, looked at it, got it in a room and played some. No vintage Bassman on the site, but the Bandmaster was there, and marked down. Getting off early, I figure a quick drive to Chicago just to check the place out. A couple more days pass and we finish the outage at the plant. 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. A day or two later, a Facebook Stratocaster page Admin does a Facebook live video in CME. While there, a friend (who doesn't even play) messages me about spending 2 hours at CME, he loved it. 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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