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This particular picture has a funny story behind it. Brad Geswein and I were at the 2006 NAMM show in L.A. I always love going to this show but there never seems to be enough time to see all the candy on display. I was in the off shore and secondary brand area of the show when I came accross this amplifier stack for sale. Normally stuff doesn't sell untill the last day but this owner was nervous trying to sell this stack because he didn't want to ship it back to China. I started negotiating for the head and top box but he wanted to sell it all. So I low balled him to what I thought was below his bill of material. I ended up buying it for $330 I believe but was planning on putting on a credit card. Unfortunately he couldn't accept a CC so I thought the deal was bust. Luckily I remebered that I had a fair amount of Chinese Yen on me because I had my travel bag with my international wallet in it. I rummaged up enough yen and US to purchase this stack. So that explains the happy face for the picture.
I called Brad on the cell to see if he could help me wheel it out of here and back to the hotel. When he found me he asked what I bought. He pointed to the head... No.... He pointed to the two cabs... No... He said "you bought ALL of it?" Yep...He asked how are you going to get it home. I said "heck I don't even know how I am going to get it to the hotel."
Eventually, after wheeling it out about a 1/4 of a mile we found a taxi that was a van. I then had a very good friend of mine pack it and ship it to my home.
