The Amp Garage

The Electromagnets amp was mostly the '69 Super Bass. I know he occasionally used an original Boogie, but the Marshall was used most often. From an Electromagnets interview done by James Santiago: Did you use Hi-Watts on the album? ERIC: Yeah, I used a Hi-Watt 100 head though a Marshall cabinet. An...

If this was 1984, he was using the TS-808 for lead, not the Tube Driver. According to drummer Tommy Taylor, the Tube Screamer was used on Tones. The Tube Driver was designed and built by BK Butler and distributed by Chandler beginning sometime in 1986. Prior to the Tube Screamer, he was using anothe...

Hamiltone is also the name of the company that made a custom Strat for SRV. I wonder if this amp was made by the same company? I am certainly not an expert on SRV's amps. However, all photos I've seen of SRV's SSS's, Silver or Black, show them to have the FET volume as well as the Normal volume, the...

SSS for the crunch? Isn'it supposed to be a deadly clean loud amp? He used a Tube Screamer, Fuzz Face and MXR digital delay in front of the SSS. Reportedly, the TS was on almost all the time, the FF was used on his Hendrix tunes. The opening chords of "Off My Mind" are his SSS, as is the chicken-pi...