Name:    Trint Homewood
Email:   homewood@ku.edu  
Subject: Just my luck
Thread:  189
Time:    Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:31:29 UTC

To anybody who might be interested, this is the story of how I fell in love with my Music Man. When I was 16 (I'm 21 now) I bought my first guitar and amp: a crappy Ibanez RX60 and an old Peavy 15-watt solid state practice amp. Being the poor kid that I was (the folks supported me, but not with money and equipment) I relied on this horrible setup all through highschool.


Around the time I was graduating from highschool I asked my choir teacher about some old guitar amp that had been collecting dust in the back of the room. He told me it was an artifact from his college days, and that back in the day, his buddies mostly used it for a PA system for their frat parties (it is, after all, a HUGE amp). He said it never sounded good (imagine running 80's dance music through a tube amp), and it never got used anymore.
Well I must have had it in good with the teach, because I asked him how much he'd take for it. He talked to my principal and decided that it was really doing nothing more than taking up space, and the school wasn't interested in making money off of their old junk . . .
. . . so I bought the whole thing for $50.
And in case you may want to know, its an old 2100-75 head and TWO 115-RH seventy-five cabinets--one hell of a powerful stack. I still don't do much but play recreationally, though I did have a band for a while. Unfortunately I'm still a very poor college student, but I was able to do that old amp justice when I purchased a '72 Telecaster Thinline, which except for a worthless bass and my accoustic, is the only electric I own, but let me tell you, I don't mind a bit. This setup is the perfect combination for swinging out some twangy 'Tele rhythm. That old amp sparkles and shimmers with the sweetest tones. And when I want to beef things up and bust out a little bit of lead I count on a Marshall Bluesbreaker overdrive pedal that sends things over the top.
Last year I replaced the tubes (not original--they were some old Sovteks) with some Fender "blue" tubes, and the tone sounded that much sweeter. I know I sound like an amature, and I am, but I love this amp like no other.


Just so that you don't think this post is ALL about bragging, I would like to find out what year this baby is. The serial number is ANO3397. I'm guessing that it is an older model, judging by it's, uhmm, 'character'.


Believe me, I'd never get rid of this amp, but nonetheless I'm also curious as to about how much it might be worth. It's in great shape, though it does have some mild cosmetic wear and tear. Tell me, do I have as much of a Jewel on my hands as I think I do?
thanks,
--Trint Homewood