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ITEM# BKHL26
60.00

The Soul of Tone
Celebrating 60 Years of Fender Amps
by Tom Wheeler, foreward by Keith Richards

A massive, informative new book covering the amplifier side of Fender's legacy. Revered as much as their guitars, Fender amplifiers get their due in this full-color, richly illustrated book. Two CDs featuring over 100 tracks make terms and topics come allive.

2007, 512pp., 10 1/2" x 12", hardbound.
0-634-05613-1
4.72 lbs

CONTENTS CHAPTER 1. The Other Legacy of Leo Fender; CHAPTER 2. Leo Fender: 20th Century Man; CHAPTER 3. Electronic Journey; CHAPTER 4. Speakers, Baffles, and Cabs; CHAPTER 5. Tube Basics; CHAPTER 6. Tube Performance; CHAPTER 7. Electrical Bloodlines; CHAPTER 8. In the Beginning; CHAPTER 9. The TV Fronts of 1948 to 1953; CHAPTER 10. The Wide Panel Tweeds; CHAPTER 11. Fullerton High; CHAPTER 12. From Tweed to Tolex; CHAPTER 13. Family Ties and Transitions; CHAPTER 14. Into the Black; CHAPTER 15. CBS and the Takeover of '65; CHAPTER 16. Trial and Error; CHAPTER 17. The Silverface Era; CHAPTER 18. Early '80s: New Blood; CHAPTER 19. Dismal Days and Resurrection; CHAPTER 20. The Awakening; CHAPTER 21. Into the 1990s; CHAPTER 22. Forward into the Past; CHAPTER 23. A Custom Shop of the Mind; CHAPTER 24. Watershed '95: The Arrival of Ritchie Fliegler; CHAPTER 25. Tone Machines of the New Millenium; CHAPTER 26. Going Digital, the Fender Way; CHAPTER 27. FBA: Fender Bass Amplification; CHAPTER 28. The Tone Zone; CHAPTER 29. The Great American Amp; CD Listening Guides