I also have a G&L Legacy Special. This was Leo Fender's last company. (G&L = George and Leo). It's a Strat style body, but with some of his newer tech...blade pickups. It plays really nice and sounds great through my Mesa Boogie Rocket 44. Add to this a Guild F48 acoustic that I bought at Wurlitzer's in Boston in the late 70s, a Music Man Saber bass, also bought at Wurlitzer's in the late 70s - has active circuitry, really nice sounding, an old violin style bass, not a Hofner, but a very nice bass, even today, nice neck, pretty sunburst...I always forget the make, American Artist, I think. It was my first, mom bought it from my friend in high school (another one), who was selling it because he got a new Fender Jazz bass. It was a Christmas gift, Junior year in high school. I played mainly bass in bands. Except for very early, the Christian band I had named Sweetwater (not the famous rock band from the 60s, I didn't know they existed at the time, so took that name). In that band, we started out as acoustic, so I played the Guild, and some flute (Gemiehhardt solid silver flute, which I also still have), with a childhood friend girl on vocals, and one of the guys had an Arp string and horn thing. When we found a drummer, I switched to bass. I have a Fender Rhodes 88 piano, slightly modified cosmetically, and a Roland Juno 60 synthesizer, Roland Space Echo. For my guitars, I have a Vox Wah, Electric Mistress flanger...a remake of the ones from the 70s, a Boss Blues Drive. My Peavey Mk III bass amp, with 18" speaker and folded horn cabinet, is not working. It started blowing the fuse in the 80s and I could never afford to get it fixed. Might not be able to now, it's so old. Also have an old Standel Studio Artist bass bottom. That blew and couldn't be repaired...they went out of business. sold the head, which was only a preamp...it had a powered bottom...to my friend who sold mom the violin-style bass, he had a Standel first, which is why I bought mine. The head on his blew and he needed it for a gig quick, and I needed the money at the time. From that Christian band, I had a whole band in equipment, but sold some of it. I had a Peavey 10 channel stereo powered mixer...100W into 8 ohms, 200W into 4 ohms, a pair of Electro-Voice Century IV-A PA speakers...those were big!..., microphones (still have two Beyer Dynamics M500 mics and one Senheizer pistol grip mic), the homemade snake for the PA, and a really nice Slingerland drum kit. I have an old Bogen PA tube amp, that we used to power the monitors (a pair of Yamaha speakers, also sold). Later I was with another outreach thing and designed a speaker for a PA from knowledge gained from a Radio Shack book on speaker design. I used the measurements of the Standel bass cabinet, which had two 15" speakers, each in a separated chamber. So I used the measurements of one chamber for the 15" 100W woofer, as a separate chamber, then in the other chamber had a 10" midrange and a pair of 1" dome tweeters, also rated at 100W each. I think the 10" was only a 25W speaker, but it was never a problem. A friend built the actual cabinet. We wired it up so that it has a nominal 8 ohm impedance, with a parallel/series combination to achieve that. Sounds pretty nice. I call it Big Blue...we covered it in a nice blue padded vinyl, and it has a black grill cloth, with gold patter woven in. Looks nice, sounds nice, too damned big for me to tote around! I plugged my Boogie into it a few months ago, and...wow! I have a few other things...Latin Percussion double-strung chimes, Latin Percussion tuneable bongos, and a few small things.
Sorry for hijacking this thread.
Dana
