Storage Locker Guitar and Amp Testing! 

The gear in that storage locker appears to have belonged to Joey Trujillo, a session guitarist from Pheonix, AZ. From very brief research, I discovered that his genre seems to have been jazz funk, that he played on an album by Linda Herre "Now & Then" (1976), Pages "Future Street" album (1979), a single called "Movin' Out Back" by Diana Lee (1992), and the Dave Cook and Intensity album "Groovin' In The Desert" (1999), as well as touring with Sister Sledge in the late Nineties. He died on May 13, 2021 from cancer aged 69.

Joey Tujillo ripped it up! Look him up great player! Be proud to be part of his legacy and bring that gear back to life! He'd smile!

That Silvertone is mentioned in Joey Trujillo's bio. Talks about a Sears guitar his mom purchased for him when he was a kid. How nice would it be to gift that back to the family, maybe even restore to playing condition.

Manuel Rodriguez guitars are amazing and VERY expensive. Looks like you have a very nice one there. I think THAT is your greatest find in that locker

I read in an article about Joey, that the Silvertone guitar from Sears was the 1st electric guitar his mom bought him when he was a boy. Maybe someone in the family wants that 😊❤

Remember that any theatre company, private or high school or college or local volunteer, would appreciate that spotlight.

That Vox Cambridge reverb is an American-made amp, from the Thomas Organ factory that later became Sound City Studios. The little US-made Vox combos are very sweet sounding

It was a pleasure meeting you at your store Dane and for you taking the time so show me most of the storage finds in person. Made my day!

That vox is gold!

Blackface started in '63 or '64. That's why the first Blackface Bassman's had circuit designation of AA864. However, there was also a transitional Blackface phase where the amps had the black face panel, but used the Brownface circuits to use up the remaining inventory of Brownface parts. These were called the "Tuxedo" amps. Mojotone can make a replacement speaker baffle and back panel for the Twin Reverb. They actually make "Fender Licensed" replacement cabinets, and the Blackface Twin Reverb is one of them. With measurements, they can probably make a new back panel for the Vox Cambridge too.

If that really is Joey Trujillo's Vox amp, I am assuming the rest of the equipment was his too. This deserves to be preserved, maybe even restored. RIP Joey. I would think this stuff would be in a Hard Rock Hotel or Casino somewhere!

The Twin Reverb probably paid for the entire storage locker. Definitely the best thing that came out of it. Worthy of a full restoration.

I've had a 78 Music Man since 79... Bought it when I was 16 and it's still up and running fine to this day.. Great amps

Gorgeous classical guitar. Cedar top, Indian Rosewood back and sides and ebony fingerboard. The back and sides _may be_ Brazillian rosewood which is much rarer nowadays though even Indian rosewood is saved for upper end new guitars today. What a lovely thing it is.

blackface Twin Reverb was made between 1963 and 1967. The silverface came out in late 67. Just FYI never power on a tube amplifier without the proper speaker load connected. probably the main thing that destroys tube amps is people turn them on by mistake with no speaker connected. also those old tube amps without ground connection can shock you or worse. i always turn them on the first time with a stick and dont touch the chassis until i can measure the chassis to ground to see if there is high voltage floating on the ungrounded chassis.

BTW- I love the new intro. Super cool, man! It shows a strong connection to the community 👍

Super cool video you made, man. Enjoyed seeing you have fun looking at all the "scores" you got. Way to go! 🎸 🎸🎸🎸🎸 🎸

Great haul! That's most likely Joey Trujillo's gear! He played for Sister Sledge and a few others

Great buy!!! You scored some really cool stuff!! My favorite is the mesa. Love the overdrive tone. It's got balls.

Thank you so much for sharing, I love looking at vintage guitar equipment! I would love to see a Part 3 where you put the speakers on and have everything fixed?

Connecting that twin reverb to the EV cab would be immense

The Mesa rack-mount must be shown when it's working.

Awesome content for ole gear freaks like me, Love it, Congrats on the find,Lil hidden jems, I was excited as you were watching you discover all this stuff,Wat To Go !!

When dude said "the worst that can happen is it doesn't come on..." oh reeeeally heheheh! In my experience, the worst that can happen is that they can catch on fire and fill the shop up with black smoke before you can even yank the plug so be careful Holmes!

At 4:30, that's probably a Teisco guitar. The gold foil pickups tend to be somewhat microphonic but are highly desirable to slide guitar players. Ry Cooder, or David Lindley if he was still among the living, would be into that guitar for sure (Ry used one of those pickups for the neck position of his infamous CooderCaster, and an Oahu lap steel pickup for the bridge position).

That Manuel Rodriguez guitar is beautiful. FC model, sells used for around $800. some Manuel Rodriguez guitars are selling for $14k, hahaha! what a find!

Dude! So happy for ya! This is what we all dream of!

Awesome storage videos you have a humble spirit that is evident in these videos !!

Love the ol' Music Man amp. That was my first amp back in the day. Man that brings back some memories.

Oh wow that's a once in life time score too me😮 that vox as the mojo definitely bring her back to life but leave looking the same. Man that's killer all those amps paid way over for that locker again epic score!

Manuel Rodrigues and Sons was the maker of the beautiful acoustic guitar. Thanks for showing. During the winter of 2013, I spent a month helping a sound systems business from Spokane with the renovation of the sound system in a 1905 church building that I was warned (by the sound engineer) had the original electrical (knob and tube) system in the attic, "It's still hot so be careful up there." The biggest improvement to the sound system was adding a ground to the electrical circuits in the space, which removed the constant 60 cycle hum that impacted the sound. I was thankful that the new TVs were not installed before addition of that ground leg. Replacing or adding a three-wire plug to the amplifiers is a good thing.

Same with old speakers with crossovers. Many vintage 'deals' become amazing with redoing the capacitors.

In '65 Fender came out with their blackface amps. They were voiced a bit differently than the brownface amps directly preceding them and the tweeds of the 50's. The Blackface amps got black faceplates, black tolex and silver grill cloth. This was when reverb showed up, built in. Many amps also received tremolo.

Love Mesa Boogie - I used to collect them...now just have the Mk 5 35w combo and the 400plus bass amp (rackmount)... great video on the locker stuff... always good to see good karma!

The VOX Cambridge is an absolute Gem!!! A buddy of mine runs a music repair shop here where I live and he has the same amp he acquired from one of his clients. He restored it and demo’d it for me. The greatest thing about that amp is the vibrato, which kind of fades out gradually. Hard to explain, you just have to experience it! Great find!

DO NOT DISREGARD THAT OLD VINYL! If any of those albums are rare or first runs you could be looking at hundreds, even thousands of dollars! Take them to a reputable vintage record shop in your area and get them appraised! All in all sweet score with that locker! Congratulations!

Love the intro! Success is all you! Thanks for fixing my guitar awhile back!

I agree with the post down below to plug that twin onto one of the cabs that was there also, done :)

So glad I found this channel!!! I’ll come see you at the shop soon I’ve been here in the valley gigging my whole life I have no idea how I never heard of your shop before!! 🤙❤️✝️

Evm21l are guitar speakers but i think they use them in their pa as well. Great buy man those evm12ls are a couple hundred a piece new. Plus that old mesa cab!!! And the rack rig man you found some pretty rare and AWESOME stuff in there!! Im stoked for you!! Wish i lived in AZ id come see ya

The Rodriguez is by far the best guitar of your locker. Great !

Cancer is an awful way to go Joey I hope you did not suffer your legacy lives on through Zimms

Happy you scored a great find!

Very cool Zimm I hope ya turn a sweet profit on that haul 🤘🏽

Awesome find. That blackface Twin Reverb is killer. You could always plug it into an external speaker cab to try it out. What's odd is the drip edge front panel grille. The "drip edge" was a very limited feature that was only on the earliest silverface amps in 1968 (blackface went from sometime in mid to late '64 through the end of '67/first weeks of '68 as they transitioned to silverface and used up all their parts). So either that grille is from a silverface Twin _or_ it's an *exceedingly* rare, late 1967/VERY early '68 blackface that had a drip edge front panel grille. I tend to doubt it just because I've _never_ seen such a thing but it is of course possible. Especially with 60's Fender stuff that went through _so_ many aesthetic changes so there are always transitional oddballs that will have features from multiple era's. Like the early "blackface" Bassman amps you see sometimes that still had the brown panel era chassis, "cupcake" knobs and with the brown panel era circuit with the "presence" control. As well as the ones that had the newer blackface era chassis and circuit with no "presence" control but still had the brown panel era "cupcake" style knobs. You could also consider putting the Twin Reverb into a head cabinet. They sell them online. A lot of players would find a lot of use from a Twin Reverb in a head cabinet. Its easier to transport, can be paired with any speakers/speaker cabinet and for session guys in particular, it can be kept in a multi-head road case, as well as be kept in the control room, separate from the cabinet when overdubbing parts which is very convenient in the studio. Congratulations!

The vox is very similar to an ac-15 but assembled in california. Very rare amp. 1965 I believe. By 66 they were solid state.

Hi Mr zimm s I thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos thumbs up from Australia looks like you scored on that storage garage 🇭🇲👍🇭🇲

Some cool finds. By any chance was there a tuner in that locker?

Awesome Stuff! Stumbled onto your account by accident, Thanks for the videos and your passion for guitars!

THE VOX CAMBRIDGE REVERB DESERVES A PROPER RESTORATION! Best amp there imo. Good score.

That Manuel Rodriguez nylon string number is SWEET!!!

That Music Man amp looks just like my B115 One Twenty - 120 watt solid state bass amp with a 15" speaker. The blonde pinwale ones were a little more rare than the standard black tolex, and they usually came with an upgraded EV speaker. They were built in the early 80s. I've had mine 40 years (my dad owned a music store back then and he was a MM dealer) and it still sounds awesome.

You said nothing happened but I saw a tube glowing! So glad you noticed!

Just saw part one. I am jealous. Watching part two now. Great video and. Great score!

You deserved this score brother. 😊

On that clean channel, the upper row of controls, pull on that gain knob for the cleanest clean you have ever had from a Mesa. Driving one of these with a Metal Zone (or any boost pedal) really opens them up, and adding an EQ pedal (or whatever device you have) will also give that F-30 some great tones at decent, probably won't get you evicted, volume levels.

Some really cool stuff you got . Was worth the buy.

Good score Dave !!

That music man amp sounds sweet!! Clear and crisp with that vintage gain sound

BOOGIE sounds GOOD also!! U scored HUGE!!

I have a messa boogie f-30 myself. Its my favorite amp had for years will never get rid of it best sound tone, crunch, reverb is good and high gain is awesome! Major score! Make sure you look for the foot switch.

Love the new intro man!

I've got an old Music Man HD 130 I dont use it much anymore but back in the day it was my go to amp for gigs.

That nylon string is a find....those are great guitars

The Fender Twin Reverb has a speaker jack on the back. Just plug a speaker cabinet into it and test it out. That amp (the Twin Reverb) paid for the locker. The VOX also may be the biggest find. The Mesa is a nice amp, but not in the same category as the other two.

Nice score, great honest video, thanks

Looking forward to part 2! 😃👍

Blackfaces came out in 65 I have a 65 Deluxe reverb a reissue of a 65 twin and a Revera era twin 2 ( which I love ) its a beast.

I was gifted a Silvertone Danelectro Dolphin bass. I played it for years. Great sounding bass. Made for Sears 1959, 1960, 1961, and NEVER reissued.

Stumbled on your video(s) and subscribed..I had an agenda of things to get down today and blew them off to watch your vids.. great score my friend!

I can’t wait to see part 2

I watched you pull it out the locker the other day .. mesa boogie hell yeah

Nice find, like your picking style and type of music you played, I'm interested in learning that style of music.

These two videos were great. Sort of always what I wished to see in storage wars.

That little Music Man amp sounded great. I was shocked when the Mesa worked. Very cool.

That Vox brings back memories. I had a Cambridge Reverb amp in the 70s. Not positive that it was tubes. Selling it was a mistake.

Love those EMGs😊

Ooohh, the one in the Gibson case !!! Love it !

The Twin has its inputs right on the back panel! They're 1/4" jacks, including the one where the internal speakers plugged in (the one on the left that simply says "Speaker" .... the right one is "extension speaker"). You didn't need to replace the speakers to test it, just plug it into a cab that is a minimum of 8 ohms. That said, it's probably best that you didn't, as that is an old tube amp that's sat for years and the capacitors, if they are original, will be paper and oil and may need reforming, so your tech will bring it up gradually from 0 to 115 on a Variac. That Boogie isn't worth what the Mark series models were, but you can still get a good 600 to 800 for it, depending on the local market. I have to admit I wanted you to plug in the Twin with a cab, but at the same time, that was a selfish desire, as it would be better to bring it up slowly on a Variac.

You would do well to make a dim bulb current limiter. That way you can limit magic smoke and the like from developing.

The Mesa Boogie is a great find!

Mesa Boogie for sure. Great find.

Beautiful classical guitar

I fixed my friends contessa 6string with the bridge doctor thing... 70s acoustic tone sounded great

Great gear… thanks for sharing

Great score on the Mesa Boogie

Fender Twin Reverb amps of that vintage do not have speaker output wires, the speakers were wired to a 1/4" jack and plugged into the back, where it is clearly marked. You can plug that directly into that Fender 2-12 cabinet with a regular guitar cable.

that musicman is hot! i used to have a 2x12 and sold it some years back to a collector over internet. id love to have 2 of those and run a stereo rig.

I can walk in any classy guitar store , a old silvertone guitar can turn my head instantly , as for the Fender -Gibson cases, all that has to be done is get them back in respectfully condition as you probably know because they are just cool for being the real thing .. I love the old Vox amp and the fender and Mesa Boogie

You definitely got a killer score!

Amazing find

The Twin Reverb is a 65-67' being a blackface. That baffle is a "drip edge", however it is not original to that amp (or the chassis is not original to that cabinet), since the drip edge were only on a silverface. Very cool finds!

love my MB Mark V 90 head!

The Fender Twin black panel is found up until the end of ‘67 but the drip edge is usually ‘68-early ‘69 with a silver faced panel. It’s not impossible you have a late ‘67 or early ‘68 black panel (left over) with the updated drip edge cover but I’ve never seen one before… also no speaker so it could be a parts special. The black face circuit could be authenticated by a specialist. The first silverface Twins (drip edge) used the blackface AB763 circuit until May 1968, when Fender switched to the AC568 circuit.

I have been scewing around with old amps since I was a kid. Now I just piss off my neighbors with a Boss Katana.

I had a Manuel Rodríguez. That made me smile.

I had the same MR nylon guitar its amazing German spruce top ! rosewood back and sides

I just found the vid of the storage locker, I’m here for part 2, I’m hooked now

Ok- I just saw the sticker on the left inside of the Amp. There should B info on that sticker- it's definitely the original sticker.

You hit the jackpot