Sunday, April 4, 2010

Rare Guitar Amps on You Tube

Dumble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap6odoC4itw&feature=related

Jazz on a Dumble clone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM7Df22kEyY&feature=related

Smooth overdrive on a Dumble clone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW-dob0AKF8&feature=related

While Dumbles were typically customized for each player such as Bonnie Raitt, Fargen has a variety of amps. As I recall, Fargen worked with Eddie Van Halen. Below are three examples of his amps:

Fargen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bhHuHwLYiE&feature=related

Fargen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmvfDXsqUEI&feature=related

Fargen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ23HZAJ2lE&feature=related

Ken is no longer around to make Trainwreck amps, but Fuchs makes a copy of this as well as the Dumble. Others make copies of these amps as well. But, here's a sample where the amp is played pretty bright:

Watkins competed with Vox and Marshall in England and, as I recall, the wee lads from Liverpool started with them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0TiFdctemc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpilMUKR4rk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_12Ler9B8

Living in America, this is the first amp I ever played on (with a Telecaster) was a blue tuck and rolled Kustom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHsk_yg9ws&feature=fvw

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