Guitar Equipment

Baby it’s the Guitar Dude

1971: Ovation instruments of New Hartford CT releases "the Guitar Dude," a 100-watt 2x15 guitar amp. 1972: Bread, the band…

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Boxxes of Foxx(es)

Above: a scan of the 1974 fOXX catalog: we see the O.D. Machine, the Loud Machine, the Fuzz & Wa…

13 years ago

Concept 1 Delta Guitar Amplifer circa 1974

I stumbled across a 40yo advert for a guitar amplifier that I had never heard of: the 300-watt Concept 1…

13 years ago

DOD Effects Pedals Circa 1980

DOD.  The effects pedal brand that spanned the (original) MXR and BOSS eras, never having quite the cachet of either,…

13 years ago

Ibanez Guitars of the early 1980s part 1

When I was learning to play the guitar in suburban CT in the late 80s, the name Ibanez was pretty…

13 years ago

Sex Sex Sex Sex (guitar accessories)

No explanation necessary I manage to do a fair amount of business selling bespoke microphone preamps, filters, amplifiers, etc; but…

13 years ago

Misc Electric Guitar bits c. 1966

Above: Tony Mottola with a Gibson ES -355 in 1966. Misc Fender guitars circa 1966: a Coronado 2, an acoustic…

13 years ago

Gibson Electric Guitars and Amplifiers 1956

Download the twenty-page 1956 Gibson Electric Guitars and Amplifiers Catalog: DOWNLOAD: Gibson_Elec_1956_cat Products covered, with text, specs, and photos, include:…

13 years ago

Out-of-print Book Report: “Professional Rock And Roll” (1967)

Download a six-page excerpt regarding 'the sound system' from "Professional Rock And Roll" (Ed. Herbert Wise, Collier, 1967): DOWNLOAD: Professional_Rock_And_Roll_Excerpt…

13 years ago

Martin Electric Guitars of the late 1970s

Download the four-page c. 1979 Martin Electric Guitars catalog: DOWNLOAD: MartinElectricGuitars1979 Models covered, with text, specs, and photos, include: Martin…

13 years ago