On the night of July 14, 1973, Clarence White played a pickup set at a bar in Palmdale, California, with his brother Roland. Shortly after 2 a.m. he was loading gear into the car when a drunk driver hit him. He died later that day. He was 29 years old. The obituaries filed him under […]
Every heavy guitar tone you love owes a debt to a design brief that fit in a single sentence. In 1969, Mike Matthews, who had founded Electro-Harmonix in New York a year earlier, asked a friend for a circuit that would sing forever. That friend was Bob Myer, a Bell Labs engineer, and the answer […]
