Reunited with an old friend..
I bought a brand new Dual Rectifier as my first tube amp back around 2005 and had it for a few years. I played tons of shows, toured with it and spilled blood, tears and beers on it. I made lifelong friends sitting next to it, cool people played through it.. Eventually I ended up moving to a studio apartment and needed to downsize my gear (attenuation wasn’t really a thing back then) and ended up selling it to a good friend. I bought an Orange Dark Terror and matching 1x12 with the money.
In later years I realized that this was the one piece of gear that I created the most sentimental value with and missed having it around.
Every few years I would ask my friend if he was interested in selling the amp back to me but the answer was always the same. “Not really trying to get rid of it right now” or something along those lines. This time however, the answer unexpectedly changed and after figuring out funding I was able be reunited with her for not much more than I sold it to him for. I’m elated to have an old friend by my side again.
My old vocalist from that first band is still a great friend and we currently have plans to do a 20th anniversary release of some of the tunes that we made back in the day using as much of the gear that we had back then. This amp will be one of the featured stars of that project and I can’t wait.