The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons

The Fretboard Journal

Twice a month, guitar amp guru Skip Simmons fields your questions on vintage tube amp repair, restoration and collecting. Often hilarious and always insightful, it's like no other guitar podcast out there.

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The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons

Episodes (172)

Sunday "Mustard on Your Tie"
Jun 25th "Little Baby Barbells"
Jun 11th "Seattle, Loma Rica, Amsterdam"

The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons

Jul 26, 2026
1¼ hours
77 MB

It's the long-awaited episode 168 of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields all of your tube amp and life questions. This week, we kick things off by interviewing one of Skip's clients, Sebastian from Vintage Inspired Pickups! Also: possessed Ampegs, shipping forecasts, and Fender repairs and so much more. Thank our sponsors: Grez Guitars; Emerald City Guitars; and Amplified Parts / Mod Electronics. Some of the topics discussed this week: :00 Special Guest: Sebastian Gruenberg of Vintage Inspired Pickups (link); molecular biology; winding pickups, making potentiometers; cryo-tuning magnets; Em...

The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons

"Mustard on Your Tie"

The Fretboard Journal

00:00 -01:21:14