re: #375 William Lewis

“Pay an homage to that daring 6BE6 vacuum tube which gave the ultimate sacrifice in that amplifier..that gave us the fuzz guitar and changed popular music forever.”

a comment on this song at Youtube.

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Vacuum tubes. How many hardware junkies these days even know what those are? I feel old, and I’m not even a child of the mainframe days (my first computer was an actual IBM-compatible PC).