I've always been aware that whatever I make has to be crafted with the best intentions. Of his amp-making philosophy, Dumble once told Guitar Player in a rare interview, “I try to be flexible. And he plugs me in to a variety of amps and he listens to what I am trying to get out of the amplifier he closes his eyes and hears the way that I am playing it, and he anticipates what it is I am trying to get the amp to do, and then he goes and builds an amp around that.” "I go to his house and I sit for hours and hours and he just listens to me play. "And I think that’s why in the early days you had that whole thing about when built people amplifiers he wouldn’t want people to sell them because that amplifier was built around that specific person’s style of playing. "Like, I want a certain sound to come from it and I want it to feedback on a certain note, it just does it instead of me really having to try and manipulate it out of the amp. "He has got these amplifiers built to specifically respond to the way that I play, so they effortlessly do the things that I am intending them to do," Shepherd observed. Shepherd – who hides Dumble circuits in his Fender cabinets – spoke to Total Guitar last year about Howard's ingenuity, and said it was the designer's surgical approach to tone-tweaking that made Dumble amps so great. In recent times, his amps have been used by the likes of John Mayer and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, the latter of whom responded to the news of Dumble’s passing by saying, “He was a bona fide genius and I don’t use that term lightly."Ī post shared by Kenny Wayne Shepherd photo posted by on I consider him a really close friend I mean, like family.” “I think it might have something to do with the really warm relationship we both have. “I’ve always been very proud of that,” he added. Speaking to MusicRadar in 2017, Ford said Dumble “told me he’d got the idea to build the Overdrive Special from listening to me play through a '60s piggyback Fender Bassman and cabinet”. In fact, it was his friendship with Ford that ultimately inspired the creation of the two-channel Overdrive Special. Dumble’s clientele would expand exponentially over the next decade, and soon featured Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robben Ford. Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Cozy Powell, The Killers, Suzi Quatro, Coldplay, Gary Moore, Franz Ferdinand, Jimmy Page, Buddy Miller, Brian Setzer, Eric Johnson, Texas, Big Country, Bill Nelson, The Cardigans, The Hellecasters, Travis, Albert Lee, The Wedding Present, Chumbawamba, Albert King, Primal Scream, Living Colour, The Hamsters, Canned Heat, Cast, Oasis, The Beatles, Charlatans, U2, Van Halen, Guns 'n' Roses, Bon Jovi, Stone Roses, Eric Clapton, The Seahorses, Emmylou Harris, World Party, Manic Street Preachers,, Supergrass, Blur, The Cure, Inspiral Carpets, The Bluetones, Johnny Marr, The Hollies, Chuck Berry, The La's, Mansun, Johnny Lee Hooker, Chris Rea, The Smiths, The Stranglers, The Shadows, The Amazing Blondell, John Parr, The Soup Dragons, Terrorvision, The Verve, Speedy, Edwin Collins, Ace of Bass, Steeleye Span, Bryan Adams, EMF, Suzanne Vega, The Cranberries, Embrace, Dave Gilmour, The Boomtown Rats, Saxon, Henry Rollins Band, Mike Harding, Hurricane #1, Stiff Little Fingers, The Long Pigs, The The, Gordon Giltrap, The Supernaturals.The Dumbleland, Overdrive Special and Steel String Singer are arguably Dumble’s three most well-known – and rarest – models, though amps such as the Phoenix and Dumbleator were also personally designed by the mythical gear maker at various points across his career.ĭumble started officially producing amps in the mid-’60s, and by the end of the ‘70s his client list boasted the likes of David Lindley, Jackson Browne, Lowell George and Bonnie Raitt. Our previous and regular clients include: With over 40 years of experience we have bought, sold and traded some of the worlds rarest instruments.ĪLWAYS LOOKING TO PURCHASE: MARSHALL 64-68 AMPLIFIERS | 1952-68 FENDER & GIBSON GUITARS | GIRL BRAND GUITARS | DUMBLE AMPLIFIERS | TRAINWRECK AMPLIFIERS | VINTAGE BRITISH FUZZ PEDALS | ARTIST OWNED ITEMS Based on the world famous TIN PAN ALLEY, Denmark Street, London we have the largest selection of new, used and vintage guitars, amplifiers and effect. Denmark Street Guitars incorporates London Vintage Guitars, Amsterdam Vintage Guitars, Hanks Guitar Shop and Rockers.
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