I bought a brown fender Concert painted black in San Francisco… you mentioned Skip Spence. Was it him that had the black painted Concert? Wither way, I wonder if I have the amp now that you are talking about? There was also a matching brown reverb unit that was painted black in the same way which I sadly did not purchase. Please get in touch at (drockdrock111 AT g mail DOT com) since I do not check this page.

Yea, the Concert paired with that Esquire is the same set up that we hear on the first Steppenwolf album. Yea, the entire album I understand was recorded with this set up. Born to be Wild, Jupiter’s child, The Pusher, yep! Great tone I would say…and a winning hand…..Its the tone I chased for years. Finely got this set up, and bingo!

I worked with a guitarist who played an Esquire and a brown face Concert Amp. He painted this beautiful screaming amp black. He had a great sound with that old Esquire rear pick up and the non-reverb 4×10″ Concert. This was in 1972 so I didn’t know anything about the value of his guitar & amp. Pure Fender! tHOSE WERE THE DAYS. Skip “Alex” Spence, our lead player played through an amp custom built for him. The tech for Moby Grape put together (4) Twin Reverb amps into one monster amp. This pushed (4) 4×12″ custom built speaker bottoms.