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Great story. Great photo.

the horror

Years ago, I played in a country band and we did a lot of winter gigs in Wyoming. We would do 2 nights at each bar, and we would leave our amps in the equipment van overnight. It would get cold as hell up there, sometimes below 0 with windchill. I didn't want to leave one of my expensive tube amps out in the cold, so I bought a Peavey Special 130 which was like a Bandit just more powerful. I paid a few hundred bucks for it used and it never falted once. When I quit that band, I gave it to a close friend who needed an amp. But while I had it, I was surprised how good that amp sounded! I had a simple pedal board that I made with a piece of scrap plywood painted black, that had a volume pedal, Rat distortion, Danelectro DanEcho Delay and a Boss tuner. That was all I needed to get the job done with that amp. Talk about a cheap rig! My guitar was an early seventies Les Paul Deluxe.

Yeah, I remember including that one in a 3 guitar trade to Brent. He had a 56’ Junior that I just had to have. That was late in 2013. I remember meeting Brent half way to do the exchange on a freezing rain laden Saturday morning. It was shortly before Christmas. That one is the only Heritage that I regret letting go of. As for the Junior, I moved that in 2016. It was a great player after a refret. But ultimately I still sounded like me playing it. Sad thing is that I should have held on to it for about another five years and quadrupled my money. 😫 I still think about that 150 a lot. Glad to see that it’s getting the love it deserves.