1971: Ovation instruments of New Hartford CT releases "the Guitar Dude," a 100-watt 2x15 guitar amp. 1972: Bread, the band…
Above: a scan of the 1974 fOXX catalog: we see the O.D. Machine, the Loud Machine, the Fuzz & Wa…
From Wikipedia: "Bob Heil (October 5, 1940) is...most well known for creating the template for modern rock sound systems. He…
For the next two weeks at PS dot com: we'll be taking an extended journey through the 1970s. I was…
From the pages of various musician' mags of the late 70s: The Collected Works of the PAiA Electronics marketing department. …
I stumbled across a 40yo advert for a guitar amplifier that I had never heard of: the 300-watt Concept 1…
DOD. The effects pedal brand that spanned the (original) MXR and BOSS eras, never having quite the cachet of either,…
1979. Teac/TASCAM introduces the 144 Porta-Studio, the first four-track integrated tape machine/mixer. The first 4-track. A truly revolutionary product for…
Download a four-page article from High Fidelity, 1966, on the subject of 'early hi-fi': DOWNLOAD: High_Fidelity-6604-How_It_All_Began Thanks to TF for…
When I was learning to play the guitar in suburban CT in the late 80s, the name Ibanez was pretty…