Wreck for sale

Express, Liverpool, Rocket, Dirty Little Monster, etc.

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jeff12
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A friend sent me this. A 1990 Express for sale. :shock:
Love to have a real one but I think the wife would divorce me. :D


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Badass! I think that's the 1990 in the TW files, no?
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Are those Groove tubes ?
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Blackburn wrote:Badass! I think that's the 1990 in the TW files, no?
I think that was Ingrid.
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Yeah, looks like the JJ-style in V1, and Chinese for V2 & V3??? :cry:
First 25 years of playing, I never got along with EL84's...Now I think, WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH ME????
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jeff12 wrote:
Blackburn wrote:Badass! I think that's the 1990 in the TW files, no?
I think that was Ingrid.
I think Ingrid is a '92. There's another '90 here and it isn't this one. I took another look at the face photo of the one here and the graphic is different.
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This one is named Amanda Lynn. This is 'Wreck I got to play to compare to my Two Rock Ruby. After playing it I finally understand the magic from the player's perspective rather than just as a listener.
Let that boy boogie woogie.
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That sure didn't take long for it to sell. How much was it going for?
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I'm pretty sure the "asking price" was either $32.5k or $35k...
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geetarpicker wrote:I'm pretty sure the "asking price" was either $32.5k or $35k...
Pretty standard price point at the moment. I'm always sad Ken couldn't capitalize a little on the value he created. Jess Oliver, near the end of his life, bought basket-case Ampegs and restored them, and got a little extra as the original designer. Trainwreck Circuits was a different animal, but I wish Ken had gotten something more than undying gratitude.
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I do know that towards the end of Ken's years he helped sellers and prospective buyers of his amps (the amps being ones he had already built) get together. In some cases folks did actually give him a gift, or take care of him so to speak after a deal went down. He never made much I would guess, but in some cases he may have made as much as he did selling the amp in the first place...
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Now it's manual is up for sale separately... If I was the new owner I would try and buy this time to make the set complete... Otherwise I can't see anyone else spending this kind of cash on it but that's just me. What do I know...

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