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Altec Public-Address in the Seventies

Above: this one caught me by surprise.  Neil Young endorses Altec PA kit in 1971.  We see the Altec 1210A…

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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…

14 years ago

Boxxes of Foxx(es)

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

14 years ago

Heil in the Seventies

From Wikipedia: "Bob Heil (October 5, 1940) is...most well known for creating the template for modern rock sound systems. He…

14 years ago

The Seventies

For the next two weeks at PS dot com: we'll be taking an extended journey through the 1970s.  I was…

14 years ago

PAiA : Synth DIY circa late 70’s

From the pages of various musician' mags of the late 70s: The Collected Works of the PAiA Electronics marketing department. …

14 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…

14 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,…

14 years ago

The Introduction Of The 4-Track

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…

14 years ago

When Hi Fi was a hobby, not an industry

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…

14 years ago