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Offline G._Hoffman

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RIP Dumble
« 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.

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Re: RIP Dumble
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: RIP Dumble
« Reply #3 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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« Last Edit: January 18, 2022, 02:23:58 am by tubeswell »
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Re: RIP Dumble
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2022, 02:17:07 pm »
Clearly one of Howard's amps behind Larry Carlton in this 1995 gig at Newport Jazz Festival
 

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« Last Edit: January 18, 2022, 03:00:28 pm by mresistor »

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Re: RIP Dumble
« Reply #5 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

« Last Edit: February 12, 2022, 07:03:07 pm by Platefire »
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Re: RIP Dumble
« Reply #6 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

 


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