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    Did a readers only audition years ago before I could read. Went in about third and played what the firt couple had played whilst pretending to ead the part. Got the gig, but the first rehearsal was embarassing!
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    [quote name='GreeneKing' post='539636' date='Jul 13 2009, 07:54 PM']Welcome in Ivan, sounds like Bill Fitzmaurice's site may be the place for you. [url="http://billfitzmaurice.com/"]http://billfitzmaurice.com/[/url] Good to see folk older than me [/quote] have to admit it IS funny the government are now actually paying me to stay alive...... easiest money i ever made. even if you cant live on it. As a matter of interest, do you know if anyone has built the Jack 1x10" on here? Looks like it is too good to be true & I do have some good basic carpentry skills and equipment
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    About to `bay my early seventies Mk4 50 plus, also a B, & I am hoping it will get £400-500 as most of the recent sales have. £450 is frankly a realistic price. The valve thing is a bit of a red herring, as you have to weigh up the age of Mullards in an amp like this vs. newer, albeit possibly inferior, modern valves. A clapped out Mullard will sound worse than a new noname. I built a clone of a 57 Fender 5E3 deluxe amp recently & up against an original from 57, mine sounded 99% as good, even with new JJs in it. Unfortunately it also has all the inherent design faults of the original!
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    and the price range, if i may be so bold?
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    Hm.... bit enormous, but I DO have a chainsaw and I DO need a cheap as possible cab. whereabouts is it/are you?
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    Hi - Ivan from Wistow near Peterboro. I quit playing bass professionally many years ago when I got trigger finger in right hand one and two. Started playing one of those skinny stringed little things for a living but never lost my love for bass. Now after retiring off the circuit I am playing bass again and my hands arent falling apart yet! I made the mistake of selling my old bass rig to a pupil years ago and then made another mistake recently buying a poxy little laney combo amp. 160 watts and not man enough to do a bar gig with a proper drummer.... So I was attracted here by the tales of DIY cabinets, since this is how I started out in 1961/2. There just werent any bass amps and cabs around in the UK in those days. My first rig was a Philips mono valve hifi amp and a 22" jukebox speaker in an open backed 1/2" plywood box. And that is about it. I`m currently picking up a lot of dep jobs and doing the first fledgeling gigs with Catfish Jones, a nasty 3 piece r n b trio...
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