Discontinued amps/cabs

#41
bhendrix said:
Bring back the ole "tuck and roll"! :D


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Tuck and Roll Forever (sounds like a tattoo)
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#51
I played a couple of obscure amps back in the eighties that were pretty slamming. One was the Seymour Duncan with a picture of a right hand playing a Jazz bass silk screened across the entire front panel. There was actually one on CL a couple of months back, but I didn’t feel like driving 80 miles to buy it, although it was cheap.

Another one was at a jam I used to attend. It was a “Thunder” model made by Nady. It had a great sounding built in distortion/overdrive circuit. I have never seen or heard of another.
 
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#53
My SWR Goliath Senior is the only piece of gear, bass included, that has survived my evolution and shifts in bass tone perspective. From my early hi-fi slappy days, to my vintage wooly SVT days, to my modern blend of both plus effects, it has been there for me and handled everything I’ve thrown at it.
Several cross country tours, the Warped Tour, rainy outdoor sets, hot, intimate rock clubs, CBGB, countless practice sessions, you name it.

It is the ideal single cab solution for me. A little heavy, but manageable. It fits in the back seat of my Civic sedan. I can lip and tip it into the back of a truck/trailer solo. It’s thunderously loud...everything I need it to be.

I don’t know what I’ll do when it poops the bed. Sure, I can just replace, and probably with something even better (berg?), but this particular cab, this specific one, has so much sentimental value to me.
 
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#56
5StringBlues said:
Genz-Benz made some great heads. Never got to try their cabs.
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I have a Shuttlemax 12.2, an Uber 1288 and 115, a Shuttle 6.2 210 and 210 extension cab, a Shuttle 9.2 210, a Genzler Magellan 800, Genzler 12-3, Gentler 210-3, and a Genzler MG350 combo with a 10-2 extension cab. They are the best amplifiers and cabinets I've used in the 42 years I've been playing the instrument, and I've owned Fender, Ampeg, Peavey, Alembic, Hartke, Mesa Boogie, Phil Jones Bass, et. al.
 
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#57
Joshua B said:
Yes! That raises another question, actually. As I understand, Genz Benz is now Genzler, correct? So what happened?
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Fender bought it, and closed it down. Jeff is now making amazing stuff under the brand name of Genzler, whose praises I cannot sing loud enough. His MG350 combo is nothing short of amazing, especially with a 10-2 extension cab, which I own.
 
#58
abngourmet said:
Fender bought it, and closed it down...
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Not exactly. Genz-Benz was bought by Kaman, a very large musical products distributor that owned a ton of major brands already.

In or around 2008, the owners of FMIC wanted to grow the company quickly, and take it public to cash out, so to speak. Kaman was one of the acquisitions FMIC made to spread their base. When Genz-Benz was owned by Kaman direct, and also while under the FMIC umbrella, Genz-Benz was operating as a going concern.

Well, things didn’t work out so well. Fender got over extended, and with GC flirting with bankruptcy, FMIC was stuck with hundreds of millions of dollars of unpaid invoices from GC, and that was severely weighing them down.

About 4 or 5 years ago, the day of reckoning came for Fender, and they had to start selling off divisions fast to come up with cash to stay in business.

Fender sold Kaman to Jam, another large musical products distributor. It was in that shuffle that Genz-Benz, along with other successful brands, were unfortunately shuttered.
 
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#59
arbiterusa said:
There are a couple of ways to deal with that. One is you keep your old Goliath (and your old heads), which I did. The other is that you go on a years-long hunting spree for any of the Golight neo cabinets that they made before they died, which I also did.

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3 15s and a 4x10. I'm still looking for another 8 ohm Golight 4x10 - if I find one I might get rid of the 15s. They all sound remarkably similar to the Goliath cabs. But only 56 pounds for the 4x10 and 42 for the 15s. I rarely take the Goliath out anymore, as that 95 pounds, boy, you sure feel that after heaving it into your vehicle.

I take my 220 head out all the time. It's light and loud.

Everything I play through is discontinued save for the GK MB heads. Which are a marvel. Great amps.
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Now that’s a wall to be proud of! Yeah, we never had any of the Golights in my area, so I never got to try one. We did get that first little digi head that they made, which was great! I would have loved to see that evolve
 
#60
Coolhandjjl said:
Not exactly. Genz Benz was bought by Kaman, a very large musical products distributor that owned a ton of major brands already.

In or around 2008, the owners of FMIC wanted to grow the company quickly, and take it public to cash out, so to speak. Kaman was one of the acquisitions FMIC made to spread their base.

Well, things didn’t work out so well. Fender got over extended, and with GC flirting with bankruptcy, FMIC has hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid invoices from GC weighing them down.

About 4 or 5 years ago, the day of reckoning came for Fender, and they had to start selling off divisions fast to come up with cash to stay in business.

Fender sold Kaman to Jam, another large musical products distributor. It was in that shuffle that Genz Benz, along with other successful brands were unfortunately shuttered.
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Was SWR a part of that? If memory serves, their doors were shut in 2006
 
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