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Jonathan Horsley

“There’s nothing they did for me that other amps hadn’t done before”: Eric Gales says he doesn’t understand all the fuss about Dumble amps

Eric Gales smiles (or grimaces?) as he hits a note and holds it onstage with his S-style signature guitar.

The tube amps made and modified by the late Howard “Alexander” Dumble have become the stuff of quasi-Arthurian legend in guitar circles.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd swears by them. Joe Bonamassa regularly has them pumping up the volume in his amp shanty. That high-end superstar of all things six-strings and bougie, John Mayer, is a fan. In theory, we all are – at least, all of us who like the idea of a super-dynamic tube amp that’s probably too loud for the home and/or amateur use.

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