I met Leo Fender,
I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me. Dick Dale
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I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me. Dick Dale
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. Dick Dale
If you’ve never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself. Buddy Wakefield
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles. Buddy Guy
Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world… a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry – or made it sound like it was coming from the devil’s amplifier. Bruno Mars
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn’t just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound … Read more
I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier. Bran Ferren
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head. Bob Seger
A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places … keep your head on and your ears open. Billy Gibbons
The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It’s refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful. Ben Weinman