I was just reading about Richard Lloyd blowing up Gene's Transsonic amp. I've always thought these were such a cool-looking amps and was wondering how good were they.Peter,could you give a little info on Gene's.Was his reliable? How many speakers were in it and how many watts was it?
I remember seeing Cheap Trick in the early 90's playing through a stack of them.Couldn't believe it!
A little trivia-Brian Epstein turned Ric's offer(as well as Fender's) to outfit The Beatles with their amplifiers,probably due to his gentleman's agreement to Vox during the Fabs'early hungry-years.
Thanks for any feedback and I hope you guys are in the studio as I write!!
Adrian

Supposedly Led Zepplin used Transonics in their very early days. Mitch Easter has one which I've used. They have na interesting sound - much better than most transistor amps from those days but perhaps not as good sounding as Kustoms.

Pretty cool Ric amp site here, done by a French fellow.

Transonics explained, nice historical lowdown on all Rickenbacker amps actually.

I have here a cool little amp Mssr H might or might not be familiar with. There is one -if not the same, similar- on the cover of Sound Of Music. My Ampeg Jet/J-12. One of the only amps I've kept, mostly due to space constrictions, this one mostly cause I adore it. Loud as hell and clean as a whistle. And ...it's nice and light.

Mark

I played bass in a Chapel Hill band in '91, and I still remember coming across one of those things in a pawn shop in Fayetteville, NC (always the best pawnshops!). It didn't work, or else we would have bought it!

Cheers, Tim

Thanks Mark,Enjoyed reading the low-down.So that's where Peterson got those amps from.Ya learn something new every day!
Adrian

Some background info:

http://jzu.free.fr/rick/amp/transonic.html


john