[Bret L]

Although I'm not much of a guitar player anymore, I jumped when I had
a chance to actually plug a guitar into a real, live Alexander Howard
Dumble amplifier this afternoon. It involved driving to Topeka in
fact, which meant I had to take off from work. I'm a sleb slut like
everyone else I guess and a Dumble is the....I dunno, who's the Big
Sleb Piece Of Ass right now?....of amplifiers.

What a ****in' dud. A Mesa Boogie Mk IIB is a way better all around
amplifier in my opinion. About all the Dumble does that's nice is you
can get the overdrive tweaked to where a moderate increase in picking
energy puts you into the beer commercial zone and back out. I guess if
you're a jingles session guy doing beer commercials that's awesome.
But to me it is pretty ho-hum.

I'd take a good tweed Fender and a good OD pedal any day.