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1966 Gibson SG
I used to own this guitar. It was given to me when I got out of high school, along with speakers and an amp. I took it to college with me, and practiced a bit here and there, but never really got the hang of playing. After college, it sat unused, until I ended up needing money and decided to sell it for only $600. That was about 15 years ago, before the price for these shot way up. Now that they are selling for $8,000, and even higher, I really wish I hadn't sold it when I did. How was I to know the value would go up so much?!
I couldn't find any pics of the exact same guitar with the same Bigsby whammy bar, so a couple days ago, I figured I'll just draw it for myself. I looked at pictures of other Gibson Guitars and made everything as I remember it on my own.
It is a 1966 Gibson solid guitar. Mine was bright cherry red just as I drew it. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to not sell it. The main reason it even came to mind is that I mentioned it to a furry friend, who would love to have seen and played it - someone who would have actually gotten the proper use out of it. To me, that would have been more important than the money.
I couldn't find any pics of the exact same guitar with the same Bigsby whammy bar, so a couple days ago, I figured I'll just draw it for myself. I looked at pictures of other Gibson Guitars and made everything as I remember it on my own.
It is a 1966 Gibson solid guitar. Mine was bright cherry red just as I drew it. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to not sell it. The main reason it even came to mind is that I mentioned it to a furry friend, who would love to have seen and played it - someone who would have actually gotten the proper use out of it. To me, that would have been more important than the money.
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Thanks. The amp and speakers together weighed 120 pounds. I can remember hauling it up three flights of stairs when I lived in a college dorm. It wasn't a tube amp though. It had some sort of mechanical reverb tank inside. If I physically tapped on the side of the amp, you'd hear an echo. I had the foot switch that controlled the reverb/vibrato as well. I found a picture of the exact amp that I had.
http://www.guitarbarn.com/barn/modu.....ge&pid=414
The speakers were the same width (around two-feet wide by one-foot high) . They were made to stand horizontal or vertical, so they could be stacked under the amp, or separated, as needed.
http://www.velocity.net/~galen/file.....d_Speakers.jpg
http://www.guitarbarn.com/barn/modu.....ge&pid=414
The speakers were the same width (around two-feet wide by one-foot high) . They were made to stand horizontal or vertical, so they could be stacked under the amp, or separated, as needed.
http://www.velocity.net/~galen/file.....d_Speakers.jpg
GSS stood for Gibson Solid State, meaning no vacuum tubes. It barely got warm when it was on.
I remember opening mine up to replace a pot. I had to remove the bottom panel for that, as there was no access to the front panel circuit board from the rear. There were no tubes in there, just huge transistors, capacitors and resistors. After some searching on the web, it appears to be Gibson's first solid state amp. A good tube amp can certainly sound better than a solid state amp. But, this one could probably survive being dropped 25 feet and still work, while a tube amp would be killed. So, there were trade-offs. My main use was for amping the output of my Sony reel-to-reel deck, while I was in college, if I wanted to go really loud. Unfortunately, that meant hearing mono sound. The amp did have two separate channels, but one channel was bass only. It was a guitar amp after all. I just used it for something outside of it's designed use most of the time.
I remember opening mine up to replace a pot. I had to remove the bottom panel for that, as there was no access to the front panel circuit board from the rear. There were no tubes in there, just huge transistors, capacitors and resistors. After some searching on the web, it appears to be Gibson's first solid state amp. A good tube amp can certainly sound better than a solid state amp. But, this one could probably survive being dropped 25 feet and still work, while a tube amp would be killed. So, there were trade-offs. My main use was for amping the output of my Sony reel-to-reel deck, while I was in college, if I wanted to go really loud. Unfortunately, that meant hearing mono sound. The amp did have two separate channels, but one channel was bass only. It was a guitar amp after all. I just used it for something outside of it's designed use most of the time.
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