Brian Setzer’s 1960s Fender Bassmans | Rig Rundown Trailer
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The guitar legend still travels with his favorite vintage blonde amp.
Two-time Grammy Award-winning rockabilly hero Brian Setzer recently played a sold-out show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in support of his new solo album, The Devil Always Collects. Tyler Sweet, who has teched for Setzer for 17 years, took PG’s John Bohlinger through the rig that rocked this town, and just about every other town in the world over Setzer’s 40 years of twanging and sanging.
Setzer tours with two blonde Bassmans—one from 1962 and the other from ’63, but both with a 6G6-B circuit. They run into matching Bassman 2×12 cabs, which run 12″ Oxford speakers. Setzer usually uses one amp and has the other as a backup, but has been known to run both when it makes sense for the venue.
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I have that amp since 1963.Never has let me down, rock solid, but after all those years it sounds like a wet towel.Changed filter caps and coupling caps because all out of specs or just died by age.Same for carbon resisters.It makes me laughing when I hear people say today “Those vintage amps sound soo good” , but non of them have heard that amp when it was new. I did. New it sounded very different, completely different. A loud amp people say.Nope ! It had all RCA tubes as there is : 2×5881 power tubes.Each tube rated at 19 watt maximum,but rather cold biased and 4×7025 in the preamp.Broke up very soon and a distorted sound let us believe that it is louder than a clean sound..from the factory those amps came with 2×12 inch Oxford guitar speakers because decent bass speakers did not exist .Tremolux and Bandmaster had the same speakers.The Showman was available with 2×12 inch Oxford or 1 x15 inch Jbl D 130.I can know it because we had a music shop at that time
B solid state rectifier
This is ????
I have a tan tolex Fender Pro Amp. Just overhauled.
At the same time found out it was cut from a combo Amp originally. Heard Pete Townsend had one, same cut off from a combo. He painted it black…lol
Great amps. I have a late one that is probably a 6G6-C and one that is so early that it has a Tweed Bassman power transformer.
does he ask you to play guitar… hahahaha
Those particular years Bassmans seem to be the loudest amps ever. I ran a live venue and the only time I had to walk outside was when a band was using two of those for rockabilly. And we had alot of loud bands. Even Mastodon.
Celestions and Jensens are companies not speaker names. Same with Duncans etc. I hate when people say that. Might as well say he uses Fender amps or Gretsch guitars. Shouldn't be a complete rundown until the info is learned. Seems to happen all the time and never pushed. I'm sure the info is easily acquired..Jeeeeez.
Incredible
So the Bassman is a 59?
https://youtu.be/dXFB1s42-YU?si=B3ry18HOu1goTNOM
Thanks