I posted this in another thread before I realized I should have posted it here. After 17+ years of keeping it in my closet out of fear, I'm trying to figure out if this amp has some sort of legendary history or if it's just an old amp that the Dead happened to own. Anyway, here goes:
My uncle used to have a shirt company called Fitzy's that did Dead shirts. His big one was the Lithuania shirts from the Olympics. Around 2002-2003, he called me and said that the Dead were cleaning out a warehouse in Novato, and he needed me to meet a guy named Ramrod to pick up an amp.
I went and met Ramrod and picked up a 1974 silverface Fender Deluxe Reverb. It's been modded, so instead of a stock single 12" speaker, it has a JBL K110 10" speaker and an Altec-Lansing 417-8C 12" speaker. There's also an extra 1/4" input that was added in the back. I think the capacitors are all original and definitely need replacing.
I also found a cigarette butt and sunflower seeds in it.
Does any of this info ring a bell for anyone? Is this amp anything special, or was it just another piece of barely-used equipment sitting around the warehouse?
If it's nothing special, I'd like to fix it up and gig with it.
My uncle used to have a shirt company called Fitzy's that did Dead shirts. His big one was the Lithuania shirts from the Olympics. Around 2002-2003, he called me and said that the Dead were cleaning out a warehouse in Novato, and he needed me to meet a guy named Ramrod to pick up an amp.
I went and met Ramrod and picked up a 1974 silverface Fender Deluxe Reverb. It's been modded, so instead of a stock single 12" speaker, it has a JBL K110 10" speaker and an Altec-Lansing 417-8C 12" speaker. There's also an extra 1/4" input that was added in the back. I think the capacitors are all original and definitely need replacing.
I also found a cigarette butt and sunflower seeds in it.
Does any of this info ring a bell for anyone? Is this amp anything special, or was it just another piece of barely-used equipment sitting around the warehouse?
If it's nothing special, I'd like to fix it up and gig with it.