Vintage Guitar 매거진으로부터 2004년 올해의 책 상을 수상했던 바 있는 The Fender Stratocaster Chronicles를 썼던 "드림팀"이 모여 펜더의 또 다른 유산인 앰프에 관한 이야기를 엮은 책이 출간되었습니다.
풀컬러의 사진들이 가득한 이 책에는 기타만큼이나 중요하고도 유명한 빈티지 펜더 앰프들의 정보가 실려있습니다.
Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy Waters, Robbie Robertson, Dick Dale 과 같은 전설적인 기타리스트들을 포함, 400장이 넘는 사진이 실려있으며 두 장의 부록 CD에는 120개 이상의 오디오트랙이 담겨있습니다.
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- Contents -

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Keith Richards
Introduction
   Feel the Heat

Chapter 1 - The Other Legacy of Leo Fender
   A Kind of Divine Perfection

Chapter 2 - Leo Fender: 20th Century Man

Chapter 3 - Electronic Journey
   An Overview of Tube Amplification

Chapter 4 - Speakers, Baffles, and Cabs
   The Basics

Chapter 5 - Tube Basics
   Nomenclature
   Functions
   Types

Chapter 6 - Tube Performance
   Bias, Single-Ended vs. Push/Pull, Class A vs. Class AB

Chapter 7 - Electrical Bloodlines
   Classic Fender Amps: A Circuitous Approach

Chapter 8 - In the Beginning
   1940s: K&Fs, Woodies, and Early Tweeds

Chapter 9 - The TV Fronts of 1948 to 1953
   Pages From a Place Called Fullerton

Chapter 10 - The Wide Panel Tweeds
   1953 to 1955

Chapter 11 - Fullerton High
   The Class of '55

Chapter 12 - From Tweed to Tolex
   Leo Fender and the New Amps, Don Randall and the New Message

Chapter 13 - Family Ties and Transitions
   The Browns and Blondes Evolve

Chapter 14 - Into the Black
   The Landmark Amps of 1963

Chapter 15 - CBS and the Takeover of '65
   Changing of the Guard

Chapter 16 - Trial and Error
   The Solid State Experiment

Chapter 17 - The Silverface Era
   Post-Leo Tube Amps, Round 1

Chapter 18 - Early '80s: New Blood
   Paul Rivera Arrives, Solid State Returns

Chapter 19 - Dismal Days and Resurrection
   William Schultz and the Buyout of '85

Chapter 20 - The Awakening
   Rediscovering Good Tone

Chapter 21 - Into the 1990s
   Push Buttons, Pro Tubes and New Tweeds

Chapter 22 - Forward into the Past
   The Reissues

Chapter 23 - A Custom Shop of the Mind
   Fender's Elite Hand-wired Amps

Chapter 24 - Watershed '95: The Arrival of Ritchie Fliegler

Chapter 25 - Tone Machines of the New Millennium

Chapter 26 - Going Digital, the Fender Way
   Cyber Amps and G-DECs

Chapter 27 - FBA: Fender Bass Amplification
   A Whole New Low-Down

Chapter 28 - The Tone Zone
   Facts, Opinions, and Mythconceptions

Chapter 29 - The Great American Amp
   If you had to pick just one, what is the Great American Amplifier, the tone machine in excelsis, the amp of amps?

CD Listening Guides
Amp Collecting
About the Author
Photo Credits
Index