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ProfessorGAC

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5. Dave Davies Actually Poked A Pencil Through His Speaker So It Would Do That

Reply to Nitram (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 31, 2018, 07:05 PM

Jul 2018

Then Randall Smith came along and started hot rodding Fender Harvard amps. Those became the Mesa Boogie, once he started making them 60 watts and REALLY loud.

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