A friend of mine is wanting to sell me a mid 1960's 9023A. What do you think?

It's an Airline 9023A, the mid 1960's version of the Airline you got from me awhile back. Basically it's a Supro model 24 in drag....A very good amp, it came with a JensenC12Q in it, if the price is right it would be hard to go wrong. 

 

It's a bit different than your Airline because it has two volume and two tone controls instead one shared tone control for both channels, the output transformer is smaller than the earlier versions too. It is really the same circuit as the early 60's 1624T, they only made the one like we have (8503S) for a couple years before they added the tone control for both channels and this is the same circuit you will find in the 9023A your looking at, the second version of the 6973 1624t. 

 

I found that the 9023A is a good slide guitar amp, just crank it and turn the tone pot way down, you'll feel like Duane Allman, it's a very forgiving slide amp.

 

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