Looking around the studio for receipts for an inventory list and found a bunch of pics in an old folder; I suppose the idea was to document my gear for insurance... this must have been around 1992 or so. Having a couple of nice amps on hand did not appear to make me very happy!! Brought back memories of that crappy apartment I had in grad school for sure. Many, many appalled rehearsals there. My main recording setup was the old Yamaha FX500 sitting on the wood shelf behind me directly into the Tascam Porta 1, both of which I still own BTW! Big Red of course, which I also still own. The Peavey Renown 400 I still have but I never should have sold that silverface Deluxe to my left; it was magic and made everything sound amazing (here speakerless for some reason??). Rose-tinted memory of it induced me to buy another on eBay a few years ago but it was nothing like what I remembered this one to be. The Mesa Mark II I also regret selling - this was the personal amp of one of the music store managers I often dealt with and I snapped it up when he finally broke down and sold. I got tired of lugging it from place to place in various moves (man...so heavy) and there was nowhere practical to really wind it out, even at "low" power (60W) it was loud beyond belief. At its full 100W it required an external cab attached and would think it could have taken down a small building. Man, I look so young....
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