Tom Dowd & the Language of Music

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I watched this DVD from 2003 last night and it is excellent.
As the chapter with the Allman brothers is playing, they are interviewing Greg, Jaimo, Butch and Dicky.
Sitting to the left of Dicky is two amps I built for Dicky.
The Purple amp on top is a 100 Watt Hoffman and it is sitting on top of a 100 Watt Randall amp that I built.
I had to rewind the DVD and take a screen shot of the amps cause I don't have any pics from that era, which would have been late 1990's early 2000's
Click on the image below and look at the left side of the pic.

The video was on YouTube years ago but it was taken down
It was on Amazon prime, but it says this now.
This title is unavailable due to expired rights
https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Dowd-Language-Music-Paul/dp/B01M8HSWTA

I saw this info on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/hdn6qn/is_it_gone_forever_tom_dowd_the_language_of_music/

[Ritchie200]

That is too cool!   Two 100 watt heads?  I take it the stage volume was way up there!

I don't see no flippen' Teles in THAT video!!!!

Jim

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Dickey was always loud

[simonallaway]

Also, Dickie Betts looks really odd with no 'stache or long hair.

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That purple amp in the photo is what I built for Dickie.
The amp was returned to me after Dickie was kicked out of the band.
Bert, the Allman tour manager called me and said he had a Hoffman amp on the truck and do I want it back?
I said yes and Bert sent it to me.
This had to be 10+ years ago
I can't remember the date, but it has been sitting in my shop for a long time.

I decided it would be cool to donate the amp to the Allman Bros museum in Macon, Ga
https://thebighousemuseum.com/
I contacted Richard at the museum and said I would donate it and he said, yes, I want the amp.
So on 07/25/2025 Bailey from the museum is coming to the shop to pick it up.
I will take some pics when Bailey is here.

Some cool notes about the amp:
I was at a Allman Bros rehearsal in Sarasota, Fl
During one of the breaks, Greg came over top me and said he thought the purple amp was cool
He said he had a purple Marshall a long time ago.

I have seen the amp on stage used as a guest amp in video
I saw Derek Trucks playing through it.

There are some hand written stickers inside the amp
One of them said it was modified for Jack Pearson when he was in the band
I converted it to 6550's to get a cleaner sound for Jack
I originally had EL34's in the amp

At the time, I did not make 100 watt heads so I use a 50 watt board and 50 watt face plate.
I had a 100 watt transformer set made from my transformer guy
In order to get two more power tubes, I added the screen grid resistors to the tube sockets
I also added two more 1 ohm bias resistors

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pics coming

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pics coming

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pics coming

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The amp was piked up and is now in the Allman Bros museum in Macon, GA
They sent me this photo of the amp on display

[Rontone]

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1XU4y1Y7sX/?uid=425631585534793159377358

Seems to be available on a Chinese streaming site 

[EL34]

Thanks
I wanted to get a DVD copy
I will make a note that it can be viewed at that site

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Amazon prime used to have the DVD but it now says This title is unavailable due to expired rights

https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Dowd-Language-Music-Charles/dp/B00011ZBOS/ref=sr_1_1?

[Rontone]

I'm on the hunt for some rare DVDs most of the time, some prices are getting silly nowadays

On eBay UK it seems cheaper than in the US for a copy of the Tom Dowd DVD, maybe see if they can post over from UK to US, I don't know what customs is like at the moment

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Amazon says they have one for $96
That's crazy