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Some day, some way, I want to have 50's twin.

A 50's twin would be amazing for sure, but they are soooooo hard to find!!!! I play a '56 Bassman and a '60 Vibrolux (Fender still made tweeds in '60) and they are both really really really incredible sounding amps. If you can't find a twin, definitely consider the some of the other Fender tweeds! There are newer amps that are more versatile, but if you just want the blues rock thing I'm not sure there's anything better. The cool thing about my '56 bassman is that they must have run out of some of the Bassman parts when they built it because when I took it in to a shop to get serviced the amp tech said that the output transformer was a Fender Twin part from the same year. I guess this was typical of Fender at the time, if they ran out of a part, they just swapped something comparable in. In this case, not only comparable, but better!

nichcope wrote:A 50's twin would be amazing for sure, but they are soooooo hard to find!!!! I play a '56 Bassman and a '60 Vibrolux (Fender still made tweeds in '60) and they are both really really really incredible sounding amps. If you can't find a twin, definitely consider the some of the other Fender tweeds! There are newer amps that are more versatile, but if you just want the blues rock thing I'm not sure there's anything better. The cool thing about my '56 bassman is that they must have run out of some of the Bassman parts when they built it because when I took it in to a shop to get serviced the amp tech said that the output transformer was a Fender Twin part from the same year. I guess this was typical of Fender at the time, if they ran out of a part, they just swapped something comparable in. In this case, not only comparable, but better!

I hear ya! A 1957 fender super is the best sounding amp I've ever personally played through. It inspired me to get the Victoria, which is a great amp, but nothing comes close to the real deal. There's a shop here in St. Louis that's called Killer Vintage. I go there about once a week just to see what they have and I skipped a few weeks only to go in and see that they had a 50's tweed twin that had just came in and sold right away. As much as I love my current gear, I may very well have sold much of it to get that amp. I agree though, there are so many great amps out there, but for that roosty blues, rock, country tone, nothing does it better than 50's tweed in my opinion.