Silvertone Amp-in-Case
I had one of these bad-asses for a very short period of time. I picked it up at Dillon’s Music World of Kalamazoo around 1993 (yes, I know I am out of sequence) for a couple hundred bucks. The novelty of it was the selling point: real lipstick pickups and a tube amp right in the freakin’ case! Sadly, like now, I was not made of money and could not afford an instrument that I liked, but would not use. Why not use it? The scale length killed the deal; going between 30 – 34″ bass scales was doable, but transitioning to a 20 – 22″ student scale did not work for me, so I returned it. However, it gave me a taste for electrics and tubes.
Photograph courtesy of SoundMetak.
