Who wouldn't like to have a time machine? I know one thing I would do would be to travel back to the dawn of the electric guitar, and listen in on a night session at Minton's Playhouse. There would be Charlie Christian, inventing bop and with it the tones and techniques that all electric guitarists use to this day. I can't help but wonder how it would sound live, instead of recorded on the primitive amateur equipment of the time.
Lacking the means to build said time machine, I created this amplifier instead. It's a close copy of the Gibson EH-150, the first commercially available electric guitar amp. The few remaining original examples are in rough shape; listening to them, it's hard to imagine how the electric guitar was considered a viable instrument at the time. But a newly built one, with fresh, tested components is a completely different animal. Clic on the pic to find out (and hear) more...