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Would this fit in the rehearsal room?

gibsonlp wrote:Jackpot!
Local freight company just sent me an offer:
$400 to ship the cabinet all the way from Portland, Oregon to My house in Israel! Is that a good deal or what???

Sounds like a great deal to me.

seyesbass wrote:Would this fit in the rehearsal room?

I remember that, it was a 600 watt, 32 speaker SVT that Ampeg made for some show, was originally made for Michael Anthony for the Monsters of Rock tour. It was two heads and 4 cabs combined. I think someone in Japan bought them, were three all told, IIRC? Believe it or not I knew a guy who used to play in the clubs around my area during the late 70's with a jetglo Rick 4001S and two SVT heads with 4 cabs, it was the equivalent of that monster. He used to say huh? quite a bit, the guitarist had two 100 watt Marshalls, this was pre-master volume days. The soundman had the longest snake I'd ever seen . They were great though. Anyone here from MA that remembers the band Buck?

Hey guys,
I need help making the "right" decision:
The seller wants $2250 for the head, I MIGHT be able to lower it towards 2000, I don't know in which condition the head is but from what I understand - it is in as good condition as the cabinet.
I managed to find a few heads in craiglist:
1972 head + road case at $1800: http://detroit.craigslist.org/msg/1264996523.html
1972 head at $1700: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/ms ... 09758.html
1977 head at $1250(!): http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/msg/1276911526.html

Buying everything from the same seller will save me some trouble of arranging the shipment from another source, that's assuming the other sellers would actually agree to ship it internationally.
My question is - does ANY of these heads worth $2000-$2250, even when in pristine condition?
The seller will send me some pics for the head soon.

Meanwhile, the seller sent some more pics of the cabinet:
http://gil.disatnik.com/pics/svt/

Thanks.

After lots of emails exchange and a few phone conversations, the seller sent me this:

Hello Gil,

I have decided not to send to Israel. Sorry . I havfe to many emails for the USA .. Good Luck . Also just curious how you were going to pay ? Paypal ?

Regards,

Jimi H

That's really sad, I actually contacted one of the amp sellers and he agreed to ship it over... I will try contacting Jimi again later on today.

Are there any forumites or anyone else we know in the Portland area that could help you with this?

Gil,
Your inlaws could ship the one from Redford on the Detoit Craigslist. They could also drop it off to Art's Audio in Milford for a check-up before shipping.

Thanks guys, but it's already gone.
After his approval I spent hours locating a freight arrangement, asked my inlaws to store it for me in case and I don't find a shipping arrangement, called him overseas, everything was supposed to go as planned and then he sent me that email, that's not the way people should do business, especially not fellow musicians

Jeez, I was getting all excited reading the rest of this thread, then read Gil's last 2 posts.... So sorry for you, Gil. A really tough one.