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Drew Berlin, left, and Alexander Dumble, right, first met in the early ’70s through luthier Jim Foote. “Within an hour or so, I went and got one of my amps from home, and he modded it for me. And that started the relationship,” remembers Berlin.

Drew Berlin talks about what it takes to preserve the legacy of Dumble—and how that might involve building a few new amps.

For guitarists, the name Dumble conjures awe, wonder, critique, devotion, myth, and plenty of conjecture—all of it understandable. The late Howard “Alexander” Dumble’s namesake amps are akin to the vaults of Fort Knox: We know they exist, we’ve heard tales of their unimaginable treasure, but few have, or ever will, experience them firsthand.

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Cory Wong and his Flyers comrade Mark Lettieri do a little show-and-tell at their summer camp.


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Your 100 Guitarists hosts are too young to have experienced SRV live. We’ve spent decades with the records, live bootlegs, and videos, but we’ll never know quite how it felt to be in the room with SRV’s guitar sound.

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