[quote="badnomad"]I don't know if you 'Suth'n' boys have ever heard of Traynor amps, but if you want a tube amp with all the best of the old Marshall's, Fender's, and other poular tube amps of the '50's & '60's, you should lay your hands on either a Traynor ....
Can't speak for the Southern folk, but back in the rockin' Northeast Pennsylvania (Poconos) of the 60's, The great jazz baritone sax player "Jay Cameron" opened up an awesome music store called "Mainline Music". He had a Traynor franchise and sold a lot of them. (Tube amps were the norm in those days and you could test and buy replacement tubes in any department store.) Great amps! Made in Canada. I believe the company is now called "Yorkville Sound".
Distortion was used only occasional,in those days, and was usually achieved with the use of transistorized stomp boxes such as the "Maestro fuzz tone"
One of the best guitar players that we had in our town (and there were a lot of them) was my ol' classmate "Smitty" (aka G.E.Smith)
Round about 68, I believe he was the first in our neck of the woods to start the hot-rod amp craze of taken' a tiny tube amp, (like a Harmony 2 watter), and perching it on top of the "Traynor","Sunn", Fender-Bandmaster, ect., and usen' the little bastard as a PRE-PREAMP!!
DiiiiiiiiissssssssTOOOOOoooooorshun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!zzzzzzzzzsssssss...,
GOODGAWD!..what a sound,....still got it ringin' in my ears.
RockOn, Fire-valve brothers!
Howlin'
Can't speak for the Southern folk, but back in the rockin' Northeast Pennsylvania (Poconos) of the 60's, The great jazz baritone sax player "Jay Cameron" opened up an awesome music store called "Mainline Music". He had a Traynor franchise and sold a lot of them. (Tube amps were the norm in those days and you could test and buy replacement tubes in any department store.) Great amps! Made in Canada. I believe the company is now called "Yorkville Sound".
Distortion was used only occasional,in those days, and was usually achieved with the use of transistorized stomp boxes such as the "Maestro fuzz tone"
One of the best guitar players that we had in our town (and there were a lot of them) was my ol' classmate "Smitty" (aka G.E.Smith)
Round about 68, I believe he was the first in our neck of the woods to start the hot-rod amp craze of taken' a tiny tube amp, (like a Harmony 2 watter), and perching it on top of the "Traynor","Sunn", Fender-Bandmaster, ect., and usen' the little bastard as a PRE-PREAMP!!
DiiiiiiiiissssssssTOOOOOoooooorshun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!zzzzzzzzzsssssss...,
GOODGAWD!..what a sound,....still got it ringin' in my ears.
RockOn, Fire-valve brothers!
Howlin'