November 2018 – Chris And Rick Talk Guitars

My First Good Guitar – Gibson The Paul

November 29, 2018February 8, 2020
by chris

This is the one that got away…and came back. In the late 70s/early 80s I had been working my way through a number of mediocre Japanese electrics. The cover band I was in (my only source of income at the time) was getting a lot of gigs and I was starting to squirrel away a

Amps

My Musicmaster Bass Amp

November 28, 2018February 8, 2020
by chris

This Musicmaster bass amp came to me as part of a trade for some amp repair and restoration I did for a friend. It was 100% original including the cheap, leaking filter caps. I replaced the speaker, the filter caps and other electrolytics, added a fuse and fuse holder, removed the little blue “death cap”,