11/21/2023 0 Comments Fender amp head![]() I had Fender amps, a Fender Pro and a Fender Bassman and two 4 × 12s. From April 1980 issue of Sound International article, courtesy Joe G’s site. ![]() Grille cloth appears to be either wheat or silver sparkle.Īll quotes and references are copyright their original owners and are included for reference only.Flat, chrome and black script Fender logo.Brown-era control configuration (with Presence control at right). ![]() (Note: It is unknown whether there were modifications made to the amp or the early Celestion G12-loaded Marshall 4×12 cabinet Pete used with this amp, since the Marshall would have likely had a 15-ohm input and the Pro had an 8-ohm output.) Controls The G65-A Fender Pro amp was 40 watts and featured Fender’s 12AX7-based Tremolo vibrato effect and an 8-ohm output transformer. It is therefore likely that it was this original combo that was modified for use as the top. Pete purchased a Fender Pro combo with 1×15 JBL speaker from John McLaughlin at Selmers music shop around 1962 or 1963, which he used extensively up through the High Numbers era. Lee Phillips, guitarist for the Detroit-area band the Illusion, which opened for the Who at the Grande Ballroom, recalls Pete telling him that he had cut the cabinet himself. This work was likely done by Jim Marshall’s music shop (J&T Marshall Musical Instruments, LTD, a music shop in Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, West London), or may have been done by Pete himself. This amp appears to be a 1962 or 1963 G65-A brown-era Fender Pro amp, which was cut down and resized to “head” size and recovered in black tolex. Pete Townshend used a Fender Pro “head” in 19 on stage and in the studio. LTD., Rickenbacker 1998 fitted with trapeze tailpiece from Gibson EDS-175. August/September 1964, at the Railway Hotel, Fender Pro head on top of early Marshall 4×12.
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