1966 a young Howard Dumble stumbled out of an all you can eat buffet and heard an old beatnik playing guitar on a street corner out of tiny horrible sounding amplifier. He waddled up to the beatnik and asked him to play Mustang Sally, a new R&B song that was somewhere in the low teens on the billboard charts. Howard was disgusted with the tones coming from the amp to the point he couldn't even enjoy his favorite song.
Frustrated and angry he ambled back to his lair and started building an amplifier out of old parts laying around his mom's basement. Soon his creation was alive. It didn't sound very good though because it was made out of an old refridgerator and parts of a Ford. Howard got so angry he had to eat three sub sandwiches to calm his nerves. Near the point of tears he was inspired.
His friend owned a Fender Bassman amp. All he needed to do was take it apart and see how it worked. Of course, after he got half way through the deconstruction he realised he couldn't remember how to put it back together. In a panic he quickly restored it to the best condition he could, after taking a quick hot dog break of course. Once back together the Fender sounded completely different.... Instead of clean it had a new sound. Tain. With this new found tain sound Dumble went on to build several more amplifiers including the one copied by the guy who taught Tag the secrets of tone.
