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Artist Video: Bayside Rig Tours with Anthony & Jack
Bayside ~ Jack O'Shea and Anthony Raneri (click to enlarge) Anthony Raneri and Jack O’Shea of Bayside have been using Mesa amps since the beginning of their careers as one of pop punk’s most polished...
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Video: Randall Smith & Reproducing the Magic and the Proto Pit
The Proto Pit and Randy's Tech Bench at the one-and-only MESA/Boogie in Petaluma, CA USA (click to enlarge) Randall Smith takes you on a tour through what is affectionately referred to as ‘the Pit’...
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Video: Randall Smith & The MESA/Boogie Story ~ Part 1
MESA Founder, Designer and President Randall Smith Assembling a Mark Series Combo Circa Early 1980s (click to enlarge) MESA/Boogie Founder, Designer and President Randall Smith takes some time out from...
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Video: Randall Smith & The MESA/Boogie Story ~ Part 2
Randall Smith (L) and Mike Bendinelli (R) assembling amps on the benches in Lagunitas, CA - circa 1976 (click to enlarge) Welcome to Part Two of Randall Smith and the MESA/Boogie story. Randall talks...
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TransAtlantic TA-30 Review and Randall Smith Interview ~ ToneQuest September...
Randall Smith and Vice-President Jim Aschow 'on the bench' in the Tone Lounge designing the TransAtlantic TA-30 The venerable ToneQuest Report has just released the September issue titled “Boogie Time”...
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Video: Jimmy Stafford & Hector Maldonado ~ Train
Jimmy Stafford’s Gear Rig and Mesa Dual Rectifier Rack 2012 (click to enlarge) Train have been non-stop since their return with 2009′s Save Me, San Francisco (RIAA 5x Platinum) and now with this year’s...
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Video: Alex Lifeson ~ Rush ~ Rig Tour & Interview
Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of Rush Rush’s 2012 album Clockwork Angels explores the watchmaker analogy where design implies a designer. In the case of the 2012 Clockwork Angels tour, the designers are...
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Video: Randall Smith & The MESA/Boogie Story ~ Part 4
Various Mark I amps circa 1978 in the original Lagunitas shop (click to enlarge) MESA/Boogie Founder, Designer and President, Randall Smith, explains some of the more technical details behind the birth...
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Santana Visits Mesa Factory ~ Back to Budokan 1973
(L-R) Doug West, Carlos Santana and Randy Smith in the Tone Lounge at MESA/Boogie (click to enlarge) Our dear friend and original Artist Endorsee Carlos Santana recently visited the Home Of Tone and we...
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1981 GP MESA/Boogie Factory Tour
MESA/Boogie Factory Tour in Guitar Player Magazine from 1981(click to enlarge) Guitar Player Magazine featured a tour of the Mesa factory in Petaluma, California, just one year after the company moved...
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