Mesa Boogie MARK l Vintage Tube Amp

[roccus]

Any interest here in a Boogie amp?? This is running very good but has never been serviced could maybe use a recap and pot servicing it's output power is through 2 6L6 and 2 12AX7 tubes it goes loud as hell I don't think the speaker in it is original I think they all had Electra Voice speakers from factory this one has a JBL. I am told these are highly collectible and only around 2000 of them were made this one is Ser. #A928... asking $900 for it or would consider maybe trades? I would not know where to find heavy duty boxes to ship this thing it is heavy as hell and rather large about 19" W - 19" H - 11" D. If interested send PM or if you know anything about these amps comment here. Asking $800 for it or would consider offers or maybe trades? I would not know where to find heavy duty boxes to ship this thing it is heavy as hell and rather large about 19" W - 19" H - 11" D. If interested send PM or if you know anything about these amps comment here.

 

[Northwinds]

Nice amp, I had a Mk IV and a Triple Rectumfrier head w/ cab which was one of my dragonslayer amps. I tried a Boogie once many years ago, nice tone and has the grit when needed. They really like a Ibanez Tubescreamer in front

 

[roccus]

Hey Ron buddy how you making out?? I got your fins and back cover out in the mail today just going to NH so he will have them in a couple days...

Around 1969 the roadies for Country Joe & The Fish decided to play a prank on lead guitarist Barry “The Fish†Melton. They had Smith modify Melton’s 12-watt Fender Princeton to “do something really wild.†Smith installed the classic Fender Bassman circuit and squeezed in a 12" JBL speaker, and the result was a 60-watt amp shoehorned into the small Princeton box. After trying Smith’s creation, Carlos Santana declared, “This little amp really boogies.†Thus the amp’s name became “Boogie.†By the early ’70s, Smith had started his own company, Mesa Engineering. Using more gain stages and a master volume control, he came up with a “cascading preamp†concept that could generate sustaining overdrive at any volume level. Santana received one of these amps (eventually known as a Mark I) and used it both onstage and on the epic Abraxas album

Hearing Santana’s sound, other top guitarists wanted Boogies too. Because Smith personally assembled and inspected every amp, the wait time in the late ’70s could be up to seven months. Keith Richards contacted Smith in 1977 and eventually purchased several Boogies over the years. (While most companies gave the Stones amps for free, Smith charged the band for his handmade Boogies due to the small size of his company at the time.) Boogies can be first heard with the Stones on side three of Love You Live taped at Toronto’s storied El Mocambo Tavern. Boogies remained the Stones’ go-to amps through 1993.

The price for each of these amps was about $1,200 new. Their current value is $1,500.

Nice amp, I had a Mk IV and a Triple Rectumfrier head w/ cab which was one of my dragonslayer amps. I tried a Boogie once many years ago, nice tone and has the grit when needed. They really like a Ibanez Tubescreamer in front

 

[Danimal1969]

Omg, I would love to own this amp! I've heard one of these in the past and they are awesome. Glws buddy. If I had the cash it would be mine.

 

[BlazeES]

OK Roc,

that new avatar pic is pretty awesome !

 

[roccus]

Omg, I would love to own this amp! I've heard one of these in the past and they are awesome. Glws buddy. If I had the cash it would be mine.

From what I understad they are legendary... If you come up this way and I still have it bring your ax and plug in!! I have it listed on CL as well as ebay but I'm thinking about pulling the ads to recap it and clean the pots if I knew for sure that this amp had the electo voice speaker in it I would also get one of those to put in it but it may very well be posibly the original speaker it was built with.... the speaker is a JBL model K120 and that is a correct speaker that was used in guitar amps at the time this was built and from what I understand Smith did use JBL's in early amps he built sooo I don't know for sure the amp build date is 3/77 I pulled the amp out today to see if it was ever played with but nobody has molested it it has all original caps from factory

 

[roccus]

OK Roc,

that new avatar pic is pretty awesome !

lol ya that's woofie cycle listening to zapa on the new PL amp when I got it she likes the part about the dog doo snow cone