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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | The Soul of Tone, Celebrating 60 Years of Fender Amps, by Tom Wheeler, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2007.
Hardback, 512 pages including index, color photographs on nearly every page, personal accounts from those involved in the beginning, and two CDs, one by Greg Koch demonstrating the tone capabilities of all the vintage amps, and another demonstrating Fender's modern amps by executives and pro players who helped conceive them. This is a terrific and informative reference book available on-line (mine came from Amazon) for just over half or retail.
Here's a link to Fender's marketing page . . .
The Soul of Tone |
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 5563
Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Brad, mine came today from Amazon as well...what a book...I could not put it down...awesome pic's and great commentary...I am so glad to see Mike Lewis get credit for his contributions...the cd's on the back are a wonderful addition...all in all, a well written and "must have" book... |
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This book now has me scouring the classifieds for old Fender tweed amps. Not a good idea at all. |
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Joined: July 2005 Posts: 3410
Location: GA USA | You could probably use a few more amps, BB. |
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Joined: May 2003 Posts: 4389
Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | If I'm thinking of the same book, Guitar Player ran some excerpts a few years ago.
The interesting thing about the early Fender Amps and Combos was that they gave musicians the first opportunity to affordably sculpt their sound to their own taste. Truely groundbreaking. The first modern amps. |
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Yep. That is the topic of chapter 2. Before Leo's amps came along, electric guitar players had to take what was available, and there was little tone shaping whatsoever. Fender provided increasing amounts of user-controlled variation in tone and effects. He didn't invent the amplifier, but he made it successful and forever changed the face of popular music, and pretty much all of pop culture during the second half of the 20th century for that matter. Its a fascinating read. |
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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1445
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I got this book when it came out a couple of years back and it is indeed, a great read and reference source.
Professor;
You are right, reading somthing like this does make you want to seek them out. I currently have a 1959 Tremolux for sale if you are interested. |
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