Groove Tubes Sold To Fender
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Groove Tubes Sold To Fender| socal sam |
Posted: November 08, 2008 09:00 pm
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There was an interesting item in today's L.A. Times regarding a company called Groove Tubes. This outfit specialized in tubes and was liquidating inventory before closing buyout sale to Fender. Today was the last day and I missed it because I was in damned traffic school all day.
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| clint e. |
Posted: November 09, 2008 05:58 am
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 D161t@L 0N L1N3 / Analog at heart  Group: Moderator Posts: 6089 Member No.: 40 Joined: July 13, 2006 |
Not a bad news...Groove tubes where in pro-audio tubes for quite a while now if i recall Fender was sold to CBS by Leo Fender, known has the Father of Electric Guitar, in the 70's. That was a big stir at the time....
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| socal sam |
Posted: November 09, 2008 08:03 am
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 986 Member No.: 265 Joined: July 25, 2007 |
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| clint e. |
Posted: November 09, 2008 01:00 pm
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D161t@L 0N L1N3 / Analog at heart Group: Moderator Posts: 6089 Member No.: 40 Joined: July 13, 2006 |
Tanx for sharing.
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| hakka26 |
Posted: November 12, 2008 01:43 am
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I believe there was a CL ad. Had amps, drivers, speakers, etc. as well as tubes if it the ad I am thinking of. When Fender moved it's amplifier assembly to Mexico it put a local supplier out of work. I bought 22 bubinga wood amp boxes to use as bookcases.
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| Superfly |
Posted: November 13, 2008 08:55 am
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 Disruptive Influence  Group: Charter Member Posts: 1012 Member No.: 2 Joined: June 29, 2006 |
GT made some of the best guitar tube amps I have ever had the pleasure of playing through. Expensive but tone for days. Amazing amps.
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| marcz |
Posted: January 11, 2009 06:42 am
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GT bottles are (or will it be "were"?) awesome! I have upgraded a few Marshall combos in my time to Groove Tubes and they are just amazing. I hope the quality doesn't take a nose dive under the new ownership.
As for the Fender/CBS thing, well, there is a twenty year period from which you don't bother with Fenders, from 1965 to ~1985. Even today, a Japanese made Fender is streets ahead of the US made and especially the Mexican made guitars. I have a Japanese Fender Jaguar and it's a really nice instrument. The only one I have played that felt better was a genuine 1962 Jaguar but it's worth more than twenty times what mine cost. -------------------- "There are two major products that come out of the University of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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