dumble book

[iggy23]

there is a dumble book out
200$
can somebody clone it
http://www.dumblebook.com

[M Fowler]

I saw an add in the January 2009 Vintage Guitar for a new Dumble book and a website to go to but didn't go there to see what it would cost.

Mark

[ayan]

there is a dumble book out
200$
can somebody clone it
http://www.dumblebook.com

There is material for about 100 books, including plenty of pictures... all right here at this forum, and absolutely free. Can't blame someone for trying to make a buck, but $200 for a pamphlet style publication sounds a bit like $2,500 for a Dumbleator clone: a bit too dear, but surely someone out there will buy one.

Gil

[iggy23]

maybe an advice for here : make a nice compilation of photos,stories...

[Structo]

Remember there was a guy here a while back that said he was going to do a book.

I wonder if that is the guy?

BTW, DUMBLE BOOK is a 332 page hardcover book.

[JamesO]

If the price were realistic, I would consider it. It would be cool to read the interviews. Initially I thought it might have high production value, but the sample pages look fairly low quality. What a bummer.

[Structo]

The price alone is rediculous.
Maybe he is basing the price on the price of the existing Dumble amps.....

I also wonder if it is just a rehash of all the public domain material that is out there.
It does say that that it contains two interviews exclusive to this book.

I wonder if HAD charged him by the hour for the interviews?

So $100 per interview......

Blackface Dumble amplifiers......


$200 plus $42 shipping!

The first 300 books are reserved for Dumble amp owners.

[FUCHSAUDIO]

Remember there was a guy here a while back that said he was going to do a book.

I wonder if that is the guy?

BTW, DUMBLE BOOK is a 332 page hardcover book.

Spoke with him directly quite a few times. Amazingly, nobody would talk to him (Santana, Carlton, Ford, Landreth, Workman etc). Not sure what he got from whom, but he does seem like a nice guy. Now I understand Dumble is trying to stand in his way as well. Can you say paranoid ?

[scotto]

If you pay by check, be sure to cover it with goop!

[Structo]

That is strange Andy.

So HAD gives him a couple interviews then won't let him publish them?

Maybe he wants royalties.

The cat is strange for sure. I wonder if he is agoraphobic and cant' leave his house or something.

Or, he likes to compound the mystique that surrounds him.....

[FUCHSAUDIO]

I'll ask Jesse. I have no idea where those new interviews came from. Jesse claims almost everyone was completely uninterested in speaking with him on the subject.

He also was legally confronted by Dumble, simply for wanting to put out a book with his name in the title.

I'll tell him to chime in here, if he wants.

[Max]

The price alone is rediculous.
Maybe he is basing the price on the price of the existing Dumble amps.....

I also wonder if it is just a rehash of all the public domain material that is out there.
It does say that that it contains two interviews exclusive to this book.

I wonder if HAD charged him by the hour for the interviews?

So $100 per interview......

Blackface Dumble amplifiers......


$200 plus $42 shipping!

The first 300 books are reserved for Dumble amp owners.

Hi Structo,

I took a look at the sample pages and didn't find anything that you can't find already in www:

Interviews and some test reports taken from old US- and some translations from european magazines (german as far as I remeber).

And I did find only a handfull of pics that have not been published before.

And no Dumble-Interview that is not published already.

And the author does not seem to have much knowledge in regard of his subjekt, if he dates the silverface ODS #055 with slide-switches (obviously made around 1978) as having been produces in the eighties (One of the sample pages).

So nothing worth $200 (IMHO).

Cheers

Max

[Max]

I'll ask Jesse. I have no idea where those new interviews came from. Jesse claims almost everyone was completely uninterested in speaking with him on the subject.

He also was legally confronted by Dumble, simply for wanting to put out a book with his name in the title.

I'll tell him to chime in here, if he wants.

Hi Andy,

so you really know a real person named Jesse Schwarz that doesn't give any name or address of someone in response (publisher?) on his "A Dumblebook" site but oviously wants to collect from us 1000 x $200 = $200,000 on a nameless bank account in Luxembourg?

And you really wonder, why Carlos, David and Sonny did not have any interest to sponsor this kind of "collection"?

Max

[FUCHSAUDIO]

I spoke with Jesse a number of times for a few hours while he was finishing up the book. We were able to share a few different stories, as well as discussing the differences between the ways each of us had heard various stories as well.

In any case, he owns two Dumbles, is a guitar player, and he is a journalist, who has written for many well-known magazines previously. He interviewed many of these same artists in the past, but when the subject of the book came up, they chose to not participate.

Not sure how you know what the book contains, since it has yet to be published ? While I agree, it's not inexpensive, it's his right to sell it for whatever price he chooses, just as nobody is being forced to buy it either.

He's actually a real person, and I will e-mail him a link to this thread, and perhaps he'll participate.

[Funkalicousgroove]

I talked with him as well for a sec, he struck me as a douchebag.

My fear was that he'd put out a book with nothing new, and a bunch of misinformation, BOY WAS I WRONG