![]() ![]() I had gone through a couple of guitars at that point, but I was playing a Les Paul Goldtop with P-90s in it. ![]() “My first amp was an Ampeg B-12 XT Portaflex flip-top, a ’67 with a couple 12-inch Jensens,” Germino recalls. If you wanted to do it right, you had to do it on a Burst, and Germino was no different – but even back then both the amp and guitar of choice were pretty hard to come by. But they also helped fire up another desire that burned in every teenage wannabe guitar star of the era. ![]() Like so many big Southern rock acts of the day, the Allmans were major promoters of the Marshall tone. ![]() So, if it was The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show that triggered the young enthusiast to start jumping round the living room thrashing air guitar in the early 60s, it was the full-on live experience in the heyday of Southern rock that really hooked him in his teens. Germino was born in Durham, North Carolina, in 1958 and grew up across the street from the East Campus of renowned Duke University, through which countless classic rock bands would pass on their college-circuit tours of the following two decades. Put simply, Greg’s amps are built like the real deal, they look like the real deal, and most importantly they sound like the real deal – mostly because he’s seen inside more real-deal Marshalls from the golden era than just about anyone, other than the people who made them in the first place. The attention to detail – and often to details that few others even know about – has landed Germino amps in the backlines of Charlie Starr, Earl Slick, Brad Whitford, Audley Freed, Jimmy Herring and a host of other stars. READ MORE: Invention & Evolution: Charles Darwin, Henry Ford and how the death of silent movies birthed the guitar amplifier.We all know that different players quests for the Marshall tone can express desires for very different sounds but when you want a new amp that sounds like the real thing circa 1968 or so, a high proportion of players who know their Plexis will tell you to track down a Germino. The chances are that if you’ve gone in search of vintage Plexi or JTM45-style tones and wanted the best you could get but didn’t actually want to purchase vintage, that road led you eventually to Greg Germino’s door. ![]()
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