Super Reverb...yikes!

[DLT]

I walked into Guitar Center the other day and on the floor was a silver faced Fender Super Reverb. It was around a 1973 because the speakers were in the off set pattern. It was very well used. I cannot remember if it had the master volume or not right now. (Brain fart)

Asking price...$1,400.00. I just shook my head and was laughing inside. That amp was not worth a penny over $600.00 and I am being generous.

Just thought I'd share because I am bored.

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Roadkill reverb....

[Funkfingers]

DLT. You know how it is. Anything over twenty five or thirty years old is now deemed "vintage" - even if was a steaming pile of manure to begin with.

When I bought my 78/79 fretless Fender Precision Bass, it was just plain old and worth £300 ($500). Twenty years later, it is "vintage" and supposedly worth £1000 ($1400).

By this reasoning, I should be worth about $2500.

[Lewguitar]

When it comes to silverface Fenders from the 70's, I like those from '73 and '74 best of all. No master volume to muck 'em up yet and real good trannies, caps and parts. Cheap cabs though. No longer finger-joined/box-joined in the corners like they were in the 60's. Never got along with Super Reverbs although I've owned quite a few. As Aspen Pittman says: the rhythm tone of doom - meaning very bright, loud and clean.

[Scott_F]

No way! 1400? Crazy stuff at GC sometimes. I picked up an old beat up Pro Reverb a few years back of fleabay for 300 or so. Needed a complete rebuild, but it was a drip edge one from the late 60's. Solid amp.

[ES350]

GC's vintage prices are crazy; the local had a modded 70's Traynor YSR (baby bumper era) for well over a grand. I bought a bone stock one from the Weber board for about 350 a year or two ago...I notice that the vintage stuff at GC doesn't seem to get out the door very often.

[PFDarkside]

Which GC?

I saw a mangled SF Bassman 100 head and 2x15" cab a few years ago there for a grand, I believe. It looked like it came out of someone's waterlogged basement.

[Bludave]

Scott I have 2 drip edge fenders. A Super Reverb & a Deluxe Reverb. Well technically the DR isn't a drip edge right now because I changed the speaker & kept the original baffle with the drip edge & grill cloth intact. I made a new baffle and covered it in what I had which was cloth from the 70's motif. My SR was my main amp for years. I used it for just about every gig & rehearsal I did for about 10 years. Then I started A/B'ing it with a Marshall. The SR is one of the most versatile Fenders of that era. It's clean & bright, yet because it has 4 10's it has some serious bottom & once the volume gets over 5 it is just beautiful (but loud). My favorite era for Fenders is the late 60's early 70's. These are much more affordable then the BF Fenders & they can sound as good IMHO.

[Gr8Scott]

I sometimes think GC's intentionally mark their "vintage" stuff up to give them "street cred" with people who aren't aware of what the prices should be and hopefully start the negotiations for said "vintage" gear at a higher price.

[Chas]

$1400? You could get a bunch better for that kinda coin for sure. Maybe a used Bruno Tweedy Pie 18 if you search hard enough.

[J Moose]

I sometimes think GC's intentionally mark their "vintage" stuff up to give them "street cred" with people who aren't aware of what the prices should be and hopefully start the negotiations for said "vintage" gear at a higher price.

That's EXACTLY what it is!!!

Well, maybe not all of it but a good part for sure. The last part would be the kid on the floor paying too much for something.

Several years ago I was at GuiTarget in, I think it was Scottsdale AZ (or somewhere else out west) and spotted a funky old piece of gear in the audio department that I had been lusting after for quite a while.

With some arm twisting I got 'em to plug it in & it was busted... actually was "purchased" with a mic and they wanted to sell them to me as a set. I told 'em I wasn't going to pay sticker since it wasn't working, but I would take it as-is.

Store manager came right out & said the only reason they have that stuff was for the "credibility" factor. That they sometimes buy stuff to use only as a decoration!

GC is generally overpriced...

[Funkfingers]

Bruno Tweedy Pie 18.

Sorry everybody but this product name brings to mind the recent Sacha Baron Cohen movie.

[DLT]

When it comes to silverface Fenders from the 70's, I like those from '73 and '74 best of all. No master volume to muck 'em up yet and real good trannies, caps and parts. Cheap cabs though. No longer finger-joined/box-joined in the corners like they were in the 60's. Never got along with Super Reverbs although I've owned quite a few. As Aspen Pittman says: the rhythm tone of doom - meaning very bright, loud and clean.

Lew,
I have a 1970 Super Reverb and it has the finger jointed cabinet. I totally gave it a cosmetic facelift except for the face plate. Someday I am going to sell it.

No way! 1400? Crazy stuff at GC sometimes. I picked up an old beat up Pro Reverb a few years back of fleabay for 300 or so. Needed a complete rebuild, but it was a drip edge one from the late 60's. Solid amp.

The drip edge Fenders are 1968. I own a mint Vibro Champ of that year.