“The world needs it back”: Sunn Amplifiers – the brand used by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend and countless doom metal heroes – has been revived with the help of Fender

Takeshi of Boris's ’74 Sunn Model T amps

Fender has partnered with Mission Engineering to revive Sunn Amplifiers – one of music’s most historic guitar amp brands, whose list of previous users features the likes of Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix.

A key player in guitar amp development and innovation throughout the 1960s, Sunn amps is being brought back for modern players – and this time it’s got help from Fender, which bought the brand back in the mid '80s.