I saw Derek Trucks use 2 Super Six's with The Allman Brothers years ago. Gov't Mule opened for them in Chicago. Warren Haynes and Derek were surely on fire that night. But Trucks rig sounded exceptional
Love these "guitar safari's." Always a good time. Not super familiar with Gibson amps, especially tweed. Also, Super Six Reverbs are one of my favourite amps, also the piggyback black tolex Fenders, the AC15's and the silverface Dual Showmans. Congrats on your finds!
There is a reason the little Fender Champs and Gibsons were used on some of the best rock albums in the 60's and 70's, tone and breakup. Great little amps.
I love the vintage equipment. Those 10 in speakers sound amazing for 50 years old. I can't wait for the next vintage guitar with a story. The video about the 64 firebird just floored me. Pics with Jimmy page and the Yardbirds.Opening for Hendrix. Brother, I need more stories. I do want to say that the 64 firebird is an amazing find. Please keep the videos coming brother. One more thing, the next vintage guitar store you go to, pick out an Olympic White Strat, pick out a nice loud amp, crank it up and bust out some Hendrix. Maybe Bold As Love. You will have a crowd running in off the streets. You have an incredible gift Matt. Rock on brother.
I pulled the trigger on a 72 Super Six a few months ago. You're gonna love it once you get it all lined out! Mine had to get a cap job, and I didn't have to get new tubes, but I went ahead and did it anyway. Also, a really cool kat sent me an original owners manual, and a chassis schematic!
Love that Skylark. Mine's a few years older, but sounds pretty much the exact same; ie about to explode. Along with changing the filter caps you will want to replace any old bumblebee caps if they are still in circuit. Those particular caps are always leaky. I replaced them with some old mustard caps I had in my parts drawer. Great scores!!
Mathew 'Santa' Scott, I love your videos on old gear. For us mature guys you re-introduce that Christmas morning vibe and it's fantastic. Fender sounds wonderful, Gibson sounds awesome.
Both are radical finds, but that huge sounding little Skylark just got over the line for me... yeeeeeew! Thanks for another great vid dude. I could watch you noodle for hours!!!
I was watching your 64 firebird video when you restored back to a firebird 1. I noticed when you took off the backplate to show the pots that the wood looks the same color as the picture with Steve holding the guitar after the humbuckers were installed. I would bet my life that that is for sure the guitar in the picture. It has to be. To many coincidences not to be the same one. I love this story. Please brother, keep the videos coming. I love the Heather poly color. I also love the restore and repairs you and Joal did to the goodwill Gibson. He really does amazing work. PEACE ✌
Excellent Matthew, great score and thanks for taking us along. Back in 1973 I remember my local music store getting a Super Six Reverb, it was crazy and impressive to a 12 year old guitar student!
The 6x12 Fender is from another era, when lugging around your grandmother’s refrigerator was par for the course! It sounded good and should sound even better after you get it tuned up and replace anything that’s close to blowing up, cool dinosaur with a roar! A friend of mine had one of those 6x12 Fenders and I loved it except when I had to help him move it for gigs… Oh my, 45yrs later and I love my Lunchbox amp! Great video, thanks for posting!
I have an early Super six, the 100 watt version (1972 to 1979). If you pull up the volume control and it clicks up (100 watt to 135 watt) you have the the later version (1977-1979). The super six is loud, clean and made to fill the outdoors or large venues with tone. I used it to fill outdoor weddings and stadium events, never muddy or lost in the mix. Outstanding for rock and blues tones. Not much good at low levels in a small room as its tone is hampered in the smaller spaces. It needs to breath as you dial in tone at the higher volume levels but protect your ears. Great vibrato and reverb but crappy foot controller, the side casters work well. I got mine used in 1973, and never looked back.
Love it!!!! Big amps for great pretty tones or put an OD pedal on it, little amps for cranking to distortion without rocking the whole neighborhood into calling the police. Something about a big fender they just sound so good. I have those alnico CTS speakers in my 1968 Fender Super Reverb, they all had been professionally re coned when I got the amp, they are good sounding speakers for sure.
What a crazy find! Yeah caps need changing, but I bet both need a rebias to get adjusted to todays wall voltage. The filter caps being old is enough to need to change them but also the higher wall voltage raises the voltages beyond their ratings. Once that’s done it’ll be sound like it did in the 70’s!
If I'm not mistaken, the Super 6 was the very amp that David Gilmour played that famous opening riff on Shine on your Crazy Diamond. He had it in a separate room and it was turned up to max volume. He used that type of amp off and on for a while.
Awesome!! I love your playing Mathew. I have a 1960 Fender Showman, and a 1960 Gibson Titan. I can't make them sound the way you do, that's why I watch your videos. Thanks for the music, God bless.
I just picked up a super 6 from upstate NY. It was gigged frequently by a Rock blues band. Sounds just as sweet as yours. They bypassed the reverb for marginally more power. When the time comes i'll expect to re integrate the reverb and tremolo. Good video, thank you.
The Super 6x10 sounds like I expected.. Great. The Gibson 1x8 sounds crazy good. Too good for a practice amp. I'd leave that one for recording. But it would be so tempting to play it every day. Thanks for sharing the adventure. Much love, much respect my brother.
Just fantastic to see and hear all these amps and guitars again after all these years. I still remember exactly how you could drive the amplifiers through the guitars, simply world class. This unique playing feel combined with the stunning sound that is in danger of being lost because it cannot be reproduced in any way with modern equipment. I once had a huge cube tower that was about the height of your room with a mechanical vent on top and handmade in Switzerland. I sometimes thought I was right in the middle of the sound cloud. I think when your reverb is done it will blow you away. Big thank you for the cooooool video 💥👌👏👏👏
As far as the Fender Super Six, I think I saw one in Waylon Jennings’ backline during the 70’s and 80’s. (And if I didn’t know better, I’d SWEAR that was the same Fender that was in my friend’s now closed guitar store that I’d help out at!)
Wow! what a find! I'm from Augusta Kansas, about thirty minutes away from Wichita. Hope you had a good time! Pretty cool that you we're near my home town.
Great finds! Wichita holds many gear treasures. As you drove past my exit by the Tonkawa water tower I was thinking, "Man, he needs to gig up here in Kay County sometime."
LOVE the farming shots, Matthew. Great job on that! I remember having a Super Six in my brother's Tallahassee, FL music store, brand new! Yes. Big! That monster sounds fabulous!
I just got my own '72 super six reverb this month, too! Some guy cut the cab in half to make a 2x10 combo, however. I got it for $475 and I'm pretty happy regardless of the "modification". Awesome to see one in the original configuration and I hope you enjoy it Also, if anyone knows a good place to get amp work done in the lower half of Texas, please let me know. Mine sounds like it needs going over.
It shouldn't need much more than a standard cap job and maybe a few resistors/capacitors. But honestly, the biggest concern would be if two of the speakers are still missing, your operating at a greater mismatch ohm's to the OT and most likely will strain the OT/tubes over time. Use the Fender CBS 100watt schematic for the reference. Yes, I know that the 6 speaker array is an ohm mismatch regardless.
Matthew, I consider your acquisition of the Super Six a rescue. The story of a commenter below talks about the decapitated Super Six her/she has. I rescued a Fender Super Twin in Houston Guitar Center back in 2009. All in original one piece cab, original Godzilla 12's intact. I enjoy your work young man and I appreciate what you do. Thanks.
@1:54 I'm going to say that that handle has been replaced - even if the speaker hadn't been handled/ carried much, at least _some_ dust and grime would have got in around the stitching, but that still looks brand new, which I believe it _is._
Wow! I actually played out of a Super six many years ago at a rehearsal, wasnt mine but, it was a little too much for me. I think i seen an old Waylon Jennings video of him using a Super six. Incredible sound from both amps Matthew.
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I saw Derek Trucks use 2 Super Six's with The Allman Brothers years ago. Gov't Mule opened for them in Chicago. Warren Haynes and Derek were surely on fire that night. But Trucks rig sounded exceptional
I hate those F'en windmills! I have to see them every damn day in front of my house! Really glad to see a video out on the road.
the fender sounded just beautiful
Honestly haven't even watched it yet and I'm pumped.
Same! Lol
I started jacking before even hitting the Play button
Same here 👍
That’s a fact. You know Matt is gonna bring it!
@@ryanfulldark2775 he hasn't let us down yet.
Matthew's living room Wall of Thunder!
Never heard a Gibson amp sound so good!
Vertical mounted reverb tank, not something you see very often! Very cool video Matthew!
Your videos keep me alive man.
Wow that little Gibson amp is a gem!
What a find!
No joke, that was transcendent.
Best of both worlds.
I had the Super Six's "little" brother, the 4x12 100w Quad Reverb in the early 70's. Man, that beast was heavy- made a VT-22 seem like a Princeton.
I recently got one out of an old garage and it has blown the dust off the rafters man.
Love these "guitar safari's." Always a good time. Not super familiar with Gibson amps, especially tweed. Also, Super Six Reverbs are one of my favourite amps, also the piggyback black tolex Fenders, the AC15's and the silverface Dual Showmans. Congrats on your finds!
Thanks Eric, need an AC15 next!
GA-5 is a ridiculous recording amp
GA-5 is a ridiculous recording amp
@@MatthewScottmusic Many people would say go for the AC30, but I recommend the AC15. A unique sound and a little easier on the pockets!
Try and find a AC15 twin rare but the best Of both AC amps for sure.
That little one sounds awesooooooome
Hey buddy, thanks for sharing. That is the tallest Fender Combo Amp in the WORLD LOL! VERY COOL AND YOU KNOW ITS SRV APPROVED!
Both sound great but I was really impressed out how the Gibson came across. Huge sound for such a smaller amp!
A shame it's such pain in the ass to work on
It really impressed me as well👍🏻
so many hits were made with 5 watt amps
The Gibson Amp Sounds Outstanding!!!🦻
There is a reason the little Fender Champs and Gibsons were used on some of the best rock albums in the 60's and 70's, tone and breakup. Great little amps.
Skylark is so good ! Huge sound and perfect pair with the vintage P90
I love the vintage equipment. Those 10 in speakers sound amazing for 50 years old. I can't wait for the next vintage guitar with a story. The video about the 64 firebird just floored me. Pics with Jimmy page and the Yardbirds.Opening for Hendrix. Brother, I need more stories. I do want to say that the 64 firebird is an amazing find. Please keep the videos coming brother. One more thing, the next vintage guitar store you go to, pick out an Olympic White Strat, pick out a nice loud amp, crank it up and bust out some Hendrix. Maybe Bold As Love. You will have a crowd running in off the streets. You have an incredible gift Matt. Rock on brother.
I pulled the trigger on a 72 Super Six a few months ago. You're gonna love it once you get it all lined out! Mine had to get a cap job, and I didn't have to get new tubes, but I went ahead and did it anyway. Also, a really cool kat sent me an original owners manual, and a chassis schematic!
Super six Freddie king l i hope you're doing well having done t
The stumble getting it home.
Keep living the dream brotha….🙏🏻👍🏻💪🏻🎸
Great day when my guy posts a new video
Love that Skylark. Mine's a few years older, but sounds pretty much the exact same; ie about to explode. Along with changing the filter caps you will want to replace any old bumblebee caps if they are still in circuit. Those particular caps are always leaky. I replaced them with some old mustard caps I had in my parts drawer. Great scores!!
I have a friend that has one, and he doesn't even play!
@@timnewman1172 The only logical thing to do under those circumstances is to "borrow" his amp & hope he doesn't notice.
I'll have to open it up and see whats inside!
The break-up on that little Skylark is unreal
that gibson amp surely does give out that gorgeous honky tone, especially with those vintage pickups. Very impressive for the size of that amp.
Sounds like a record 👍🏻
Very nice 👍 good find!!!
Anyone else click LIKE before it started? Lol 🍻 you have an incredible collection Matthew!
I'm so proud of you chasing the dream. I'm sold on the old Skylark
Mathew 'Santa' Scott, I love your videos on old gear. For us mature guys you re-introduce that Christmas morning vibe and it's fantastic. Fender sounds wonderful, Gibson sounds awesome.
Both are radical finds, but that huge sounding little Skylark just got over the line for me... yeeeeeew! Thanks for another great vid dude. I could watch you noodle for hours!!!
Freddie King played through one ...was my inspiration to own one back early to mid 70s...
David & Goliath ^^
They sound glorious. Never heard about this 6x10 behemoth before but yeah that little Gibby does have its own inner fire. Love it !
It's hard to believe it's real👍🏻
Those roads are so much better than the roads here in Cali.....including the dirt ones....
That Fenders is a beast!
05:31 just like heaven. Great amp!
Good stuff!
That Super 6 Fender Combo is a Monster!!! I've never even heard of one till now. And the Gibson amp,WOW!! Sounds Amazing!!
Legendary amps!
Ain’t it fun tracking down vintage gear? Make life a grand adventure as my old friend taught me!
That skylark was worth the drive to Kansas alone. Killer little amp. Nice score Matt
Agreed, glad I picked it up!
I was watching your 64 firebird video when you restored back to a firebird 1. I noticed when you took off the backplate to show the pots that the wood looks the same color as the picture with Steve holding the guitar after the humbuckers were installed. I would bet my life that that is for sure the guitar in the picture. It has to be. To many coincidences not to be the same one. I love this story. Please brother, keep the videos coming. I love the Heather poly color. I also love the restore and repairs you and Joal did to the goodwill Gibson. He really does amazing work. PEACE ✌
I'm 100% certain its the guitar too. I found another Firebird I think you will enjoy, coming very soon!
Excellent Matthew, great score and thanks for taking us along.
Back in 1973 I remember my local music store getting a Super Six Reverb, it was crazy and impressive to a 12 year old guitar student!
Hope alls well, HK!
Nice! I learned to play guitar in Wichita - always get excited to see the city get represented!
The "Oh, that sustain!" smile at 9.25 *chef's kiss*. Fantastic amps. Love these vids.
The 6x12 Fender is from another era, when lugging around your grandmother’s refrigerator was par for the course! It sounded good and should sound even better after you get it tuned up and replace anything that’s close to blowing up, cool dinosaur with a roar! A friend of mine had one of those 6x12 Fenders and I loved it except when I had to help him move it for gigs…
Oh my, 45yrs later and I love my Lunchbox amp!
Great video, thanks for posting!
Oh ya! I’m shocked, but that Skylark is FANTASTIC!
I have an early Super six, the 100 watt version (1972 to 1979). If you pull up the volume control and it clicks up (100 watt to 135 watt) you have the the later version (1977-1979). The super six is loud, clean and made to fill the outdoors or large venues with tone. I used it to fill outdoor weddings and stadium events, never muddy or lost in the mix. Outstanding for rock and blues tones. Not much good at low levels in a small room as its tone is hampered in the smaller spaces. It needs to breath as you dial in tone at the higher volume levels but protect your ears. Great vibrato and reverb but crappy foot controller, the side casters work well. I got mine used in 1973, and never looked back.
Love the Super Six. Incredible find and could not be in a better place than in your living room...except for the stage.
Man!! Yous got a bad case of the Blues!!! Awesome songs!! Thanks Mr. Matthew Scott..
Love it!!!! Big amps for great pretty tones or put an OD pedal on it, little amps for cranking to distortion without rocking the whole neighborhood into calling the police. Something about a big fender they just sound so good. I have those alnico CTS speakers in my 1968 Fender Super Reverb, they all had been professionally re coned when I got the amp, they are good sounding speakers for sure.
Both sound sweet
What a crazy find! Yeah caps need changing, but I bet both need a rebias to get adjusted to todays wall voltage. The filter caps being old is enough to need to change them but also the higher wall voltage raises the voltages beyond their ratings. Once that’s done it’ll be sound like it did in the 70’s!
the Gibson amp was my favorite and your playing did it justice
I would love to hear the Super 6 cranked up, but that little Gibson sounded AMAZING!!! What a tone!!
Man... what a cool World you live in, Matthew! Simply fascinating !!
If I'm not mistaken, the Super 6 was the very amp that David Gilmour played that famous opening riff on Shine on your Crazy Diamond. He had it in a separate room and it was turned up to max volume. He used that type of amp off and on for a while.
Awesome!!
I love your playing Mathew.
I have a 1960 Fender Showman, and a 1960 Gibson Titan. I can't make them sound the way you do, that's why I watch your videos. Thanks for the music, God bless.
They both sound fantastic, but that little Skylark sounds amazing!
That second part with the Gibson was BRUTAL! Thanks for the good vibes
The GA series is rapidly becoming more and more sought after
Yeah, the big Fender has a nostalgic, almost haunting, tone reminiscent of old wooden music halls - nice find.
I just picked up a super 6 from upstate NY. It was gigged frequently by a Rock blues band. Sounds just as sweet as yours. They bypassed the reverb for marginally more power. When the time comes i'll expect to re integrate the reverb and tremolo.
Good video, thank you.
The Super 6x10 sounds like I expected.. Great. The Gibson 1x8 sounds crazy good. Too good for a practice amp. I'd leave that one for recording. But it would be so tempting to play it every day. Thanks for sharing the adventure. Much love, much respect my brother.
i love the sound of that fender amp. wow! the bite!
congrats on that Skylark!!! Hidden gem, I am sure you will love it!
I love those little Skylarks, when they're good ones, they really rock!
These tones are SICK. Especially loved the Gibson
Just fantastic to see and hear all these amps and guitars again after all these years. I still remember exactly how you could drive the amplifiers through the guitars, simply world class. This unique playing feel combined with the stunning sound that is in danger of being lost because it cannot be reproduced in any way with modern equipment. I once had a huge cube tower that was about the height of your room with a mechanical vent on top and handmade in Switzerland. I sometimes thought I was right in the middle of the sound cloud. I think when your reverb is done it will blow you away. Big thank you for the cooooool video 💥👌👏👏👏
As far as the Fender Super Six, I think I saw one in Waylon Jennings’ backline during the 70’s and 80’s. (And if I didn’t know better, I’d SWEAR that was the same Fender that was in my friend’s now closed guitar store that I’d help out at!)
That little Gibson sounds amazing!
Wow! what a find! I'm from Augusta Kansas, about thirty minutes away from Wichita. Hope you had a good time! Pretty cool that you we're near my home town.
Really impressed about how good that small Gibson amp sounds!
Got a '61 GA-5T with original speaker myself, and it sounds amazing when cranked up.
I look forward to hearing you use it in future video's👍
Another brilliant video.
That little Gibson is rich!! The Fender…? YIKES!!! Looking forward to hearing it after caps are done!
Great finds! Wichita holds many gear treasures. As you drove past my exit by the Tonkawa water tower I was thinking, "Man, he needs to gig up here in Kay County sometime."
72 was a great year. That super six and my Bandmaster Reverb rolled off the production line.
Skylark+Paul=🤯
great sounds... can't wait for the updates on those two amps.
LOVE the farming shots, Matthew. Great job on that! I remember having a Super Six in my brother's Tallahassee, FL music store, brand new! Yes. Big! That monster sounds fabulous!
Both cool but there’s something just so great about that little Gibson amp. It barks
Everything sounds great! Gotta love your dedication for going after the rare vintage gear!
That Gibson is a powerhouse of sound!!!! Amazing little amp.
Love this front room……totally a musicians space!
Love the breakup on the Gibson !!! Super Six sounds awesome !! Matt would love to here the LP thru the Super Six.
i like that you keep wearing colours that match your eyes 🧐
Really fascinated by the Fender Super 6. Looking forward to the follow-up video.
I just got my own '72 super six reverb this month, too! Some guy cut the cab in half to make a 2x10 combo, however. I got it for $475 and I'm pretty happy regardless of the "modification". Awesome to see one in the original configuration and I hope you enjoy it
Also, if anyone knows a good place to get amp work done in the lower half of Texas, please let me know. Mine sounds like it needs going over.
It shouldn't need much more than a standard cap job and maybe a few resistors/capacitors. But honestly, the biggest concern would be if two of the speakers are still missing, your operating at a greater mismatch ohm's to the OT and most likely will strain the OT/tubes over time. Use the Fender CBS 100watt schematic for the reference. Yes, I know that the 6 speaker array is an ohm mismatch regardless.
Still a great deal
Matthew, I consider your acquisition of the Super Six a rescue. The story of a commenter below talks about the decapitated Super Six her/she has. I rescued a Fender Super Twin in Houston Guitar Center back in 2009. All in original one piece cab, original Godzilla 12's intact. I enjoy your work young man and I appreciate what you do. Thanks.
Great, great video! Love seeing the vintage gear being taking care of and rocking on👍
@1:54 I'm going to say that that handle has been replaced - even if the speaker hadn't been handled/ carried much, at least _some_ dust and grime would have got in around the stitching, but that still looks brand new, which I believe it _is._
Sweet as honey sounds form them both! You wheel that Fender up on stage and people will know you mean business!!!! Great find Matthew!!!!
The sound of that Strat and the Super Six is amazing, enough to put pedal makers out of business. ;-)
That little Gibby sounds fantastic
Yeeeeeeaaaahhh bro! You KNOW we love the hunt!
Sweet beast of a '72 SSR and a small sweet brutal beast of a Skylark... great come-ups Matt!
I bough my Super Six Reverb in like 2019 and it was my first tube amp, bought it for like $700 bucks and I love the hell out of it.
Loved both. The Reverb on the Super six was delish.. The Skylark sounded badass with that LP special.
Wow! I actually played out of a Super six many years ago at a rehearsal, wasnt mine but, it was a little too much for me. I think i seen an old Waylon Jennings video of him using a Super six. Incredible sound from both amps Matthew.
The little skylark is awesome
Mathew, another AWESOME find and video. Thanks for sharing, love the super 6.
BAA, don’t get much better than that. Congratulations on the find.