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Title: RIP Dumble
Post by: G._Hoffman on January 17, 2022, 10:00:16 pm

Very clean, articulate amps, and a personality which made people want to kill him, but he made it to 76.

RIP.

Title: Re: RIP Dumble
Post by: PRR on January 17, 2022, 11:02:06 pm

https://www.musicradar.com/news/howard-alexander-dumble-death
https://twitter.com/hashtag/dumble?src=hashtag_click

Title: Re: RIP Dumble
Post by: Grees01 on January 17, 2022, 11:30:15 pm

Damn. So sorry to hear of that news. What a legend. RIP Howard A. Dumble. May you fly with angels in Heaven with the big band up there. Prayers for his family.
G.

Title: Re: RIP Dumble
Post by: tubeswell on January 18, 2022, 02:20:52 am

Clearly one of Howard's amps behind Larry Carlton in this 1995 gig at Newport Jazz Festival

And here he is talking about it

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Title: Re: RIP Dumble
Post by: mresistor on January 18, 2022, 02:17:07 pm

Quote from: tubeswell on January 18, 2022, 02:20:52 am

Clearly one of Howard's amps behind Larry Carlton in this 1995 gig at Newport Jazz Festival
 

It is    good eye

Title: Re: RIP Dumble
Post by: Platefire on February 12, 2022, 06:59:31 pm

I know Doug is a Ventures Fan. Me also and maybe a few of us more senior players:>) This info may be well known by many but I will share it anyway. In the early 60's the Ventures endorsed Mosrite Guitars built by Semie Mosley but they didn't have a Mosrite Amplifier. So Semie struck up a deal with Howard Dumble to build some prototypes for a possible amp deal. I think Howard built 11. The amps were good but the deal fell through. Here is some pictures of one of the eleven surviving amps and also attached is a link with more details about the Dumble/Mosrites amps, if you want to read up.
https://reverb.com/news/alexander-dumble-the-ventures-and-the-little-known-story-of-mosrite-amplifiers (https://reverb.com/news/alexander-dumble-the-ventures-and-the-little-known-story-of-mosrite-amplifiers)

Title: Re: RIP Dumble
Post by: Rontone on March 20, 2022, 05:13:16 pm

I only just saw this, sad news, the little clip of him playing online, you can see he had some mean rockin' guitar chops, I'd like to hear more

A few years ago, I found some footage of him at his home either being interviewed, I cannot remember who was there, seemed like a 90's video if I remember,  and now I cannot find it,

Does anyone know the video clip I am thinking of? Maybe it was within another film/documentary, I'd love to find it again