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In the 1940s, Valco was formed by three business partners and former owners of the National Dobro Company Victor Smith, Al Frost, and Louis Dopyera. Valco was a prolific manufacturer of guitars, guitar amplifiers, and other musical instruments from the 1940s through 1967

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My simple reproduction Valco amp/cab combos meet those goals!Р”Р‡rom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (See Valco serial number sequence under Wiki article) My goal is to preserve a bit of that 40's and early 50'sР’В era blues tone look and feel, paying attention to the preР’В 60's non Fender vintage tube circuits and cabinet designs! To make it affordable and fun. Vintage to me is all the non Fender amps circa 1947.

Vintage to me is not another copy of an old Fender amp, the world has quite enough of those.

Today when I think of vintage guitar amps, I don't think ofР’В late 1950's and 60'sР’В Fenders, I think about the amplifiers of my Grandfather's generation and how they influenced Leo Fender way back in the 40's. (Fender focused on television for ideas while those going before him looked back at radio design for their influence). These are the amps that Leo Fender copied for his first amps from back in 1946-47, but he wanted to change the sound (which he did) and with that change we lost a bit of important music history. so I decided to start building replicas of the best small amps of the past (now called vintage).

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He taught me to fix about anything electronic, and later I even got the ham radio license (NO6M), sort of following in his footsteps.Р”В«ut the junk store amp supply was running out and old amps seem very overpriced. When I couldn't duplicate that bluesy tone on my Fender amp, it was my Grandpa Ralph who pointed out that the bluesy tone was created because those small cheap tube amp circuits broke up and distorted with just a small amount of drive! I started shopping my amps from junk stores from then on. Now what did my Grandfather have to do with all this? They had a different style and that different bluesy tone unlike all the big name bands and I got hooked! I wanted that blues tone sound!

Names like Lighting Hopkins, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Big Mamma Thorton, Bo Diddly, Mississippi, John Hurt, Blind Lemon and dozens of others. I was front row for some of the biggest selling musical names of the time.Р”В«ut it was not the big hip top of the bill names that left their mark, it was all those way down on the billing opening acts that impressed me the most. In the fall of '67 and a quick hitch hike out to Greenwich Village, I found myself doing light shows for the Electric Circus, AKA the DOM/Bohemian (Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground).

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Then came my electric guitar years, assistant roady for a couple of our high school garage bands, from which a few would make the pro cut into the the big time, like Timothy Schmit (Eagles) and Ed Robels (Ambrosa).Р”В«efore long I was working for Carico's EdisonР’В Light Co, a subcontrator for Bill Graham, and doing psychodelic light shows for the SF Bay areas - Dead, Quicksilver, Big Brother, Airplane and the likes. So I bought a cheap acoustic guitar (Harmony) and started learning songs by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, early Dylan, Bias, and Collins, songs popular for our generation at that time.

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