[Harp-L] RE: Affordable First Amp

["Bill Kumpe" <bkumpe@xxxxxxx>]

John Walden said:  "They simply used what they had. THEY HAD NO MONEY to buy
expensive gear."

Thank you John for voicing some common sense.  Chester Arthur Burnett taught
us one of the best lessons in gear snobbery that can be found in blues
history.  Look at the brand of his guitars.  He played Epi's not Gibsons or
other high dollar instruments.  Aside from being a talented musician, he was
a keen businessman.   I come from a poor southern background and have family
members who were (on and off) gigging musicians.  If you had told them that
in 2010 middle aged men would be spending a fortune to try to duplicate the
sound made by dirt poor musicians playing cheap equipment, they would have
laughed in your face.

Bill Kumpe
Tulsa, OK