allegedsongsmith's Blues Amp Rig

The quad reverb is essentially a silver face twin with four 12's. It pushes a TON of air which is great for a rhythm player like me. I had mine "blackfaced" to bring it down from 135 watts to 85 or whatever the blackface specs are. This allows you to get more tone before achieving painful volume. It's still plenty loud.

I got my '72 quad reverb with the incorrect assumption that I would gig with it. It's too much of a hassle to move and most clubs that i play are just way to small to warrant an amp this big so it rests in my band's studio getting use on recordings and in my daydreams of when I have roadies.

The official '66 Jazzmasters had a bound neck, block inlays and a matching headstock but early production models had a bound neck and dot inlays. As someone who thinks block inlays just look "off" on a fender, but who loves bound necks, I consider myself extremely fortunate to have come across an ugly ugly refinished (we're talking orange house paint) '66 Jazzmaster produced in January. The refinish job garnered a VERY reasonable price tag (this was also before the Jazzmaster renaissance of recent years) and it's all mine. After getting a new paint job, this is my main guitar. For me, this guitar is the clearest and most concrete example of why a vintage instrument is worth the heftier price tag. The neck pickup like Pop Staples in a bottle, the vibrato arm works like butter and the neck feels like home.