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My old buddy, as in Buddy Whittington from Texas, has decided to sell some of his U.K. based equipment. Bud was guitarist with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers for 15 years, an exceptionally talented guitarist, singer and songwriter, Bud was described by John Mayall something like ….‘possibly the greatest Bluesbreaker guitarist’. I worked, recorded and toured the U.K. and Europe with Buddy and have looked after his gear for a while. Rather than keep this stuff in storage, he’s asked if I can move it on for him. I am not ‘up’ on guitar amps, I know stuff and I know these amps are highly revered by a lot of guitarists. It has been difficult to appraise a price for this amp, shops not being as forthcoming as was hoped for considering the ‘provenance’ attached in guitar circles to Buddy. Buddy has owned it for a while and I know it sounds as good as any of the boutique stuff out there. It is in very nice condition, has the reverb units with it and comes in a full flight case, I think the case has compartments for spare valves. If anyone is interested or have guitarist ‘buddies’ who could be, then please message me. The thought of Ebay/Facebook/ Reverb etc is being kept at bay for the while……and yes, all money will be sent direct to Buddy via me. A couple of pictures attached.

Originally released on Vinyl, we also wanted it as a gatefold cover but the record company wouldn't cost it for that so here is what it would have looked like as a gatefold cover.....Info would have been printed inside the cover!

I think it was an actor who the keyboard player knew, listed as George Rawlins doing the voiceover Alien language ( and the ‘laugh’ on Toefunk).

Spondonbassed....how could I download this audio, I can't find a way of doing it off this clip?

Brilliant, I’d forgotton what it actually said in forward motion 😄

But the ‘Peter Green Splinter Group’ does 😃

A very easy and quick transaction with Francis for a couple of D’Addario B strings from me, marvelous stuff, thank you.

What’s with that Bacci bass 🥴

…….to add to my previous post. 1: I’ve also had the reply “ we won’t insure you as you might be driving Boy George home and have an accident etc etc! 2: The company used by me via the Musicians Union many years ago was a broker in North London. I discovered they weren’t getting the best price, costing me well over £100 more per year. My wife was a teacher and Aviva had links with her Teachers Union so we moved to Aviva putting her car as the main one but I’m thinking it may have been easier to insure with them as a musician because I was the second car on the policy. As I now use her car for ULEZ zone gigs, I’ve updated our Aviva policy to include her car for business.

Aviva, both cars registered for business, the second car only cost an approx extra £12 for business…..actual cost will depend on what car, your age, normal use for etc…I recently read of someone who was given a fine for driving without insurance cover for use as business, best to cover all possible types of car usage insurance.