Jason Momoa can formally cease on the lookout for a brand new guitar amp as a result of he’s by no means going to prime the pedigree unicorn that Trevor Boone has simply unearthed for him – a Dumble Overdrive Particular that was commissioned for the Seashore Boys, housed in a Seashore Boys street case.
Boone, of Emerald Metropolis Guitars, says it took a decade to trace this amp down, and sarcastically, given its windfall, it was discovered down by the seaside, on Kauai, Hawaii, the place the identical proprietor has had it for practically 35 years. We echo Joe Bonamassa‘s feedback: “What a grail.”
This tube amp is one among three that had been made for the Seashore Boys circa ’82/’83 and was initially completed in white Tolex earlier than the band’s roadies put some carpet excessive, as a result of… nicely, these white vinyl-covered amps simply don’t keep clear.
“I’ve needed to hold this lengthy misplaced Seashore Boys amp beneath wraps for a decade till the proprietor was able to let this go and when the decision got here in I rounded up the store to move to Kauai to select this and 20 extra wonderful objects up,” writes Boone on Instagram.
“The amp is a 100 per cent authentic ‘grail-era’ ODS and contains the unique receipts and Seashore Boys Street case.
“There are movies the place you may see this amp reside in authentic white, in addition to carpeted shortly after. I had this photograph of The Seashore Boys Dumble ON A BEACH in my head for 10 years and it was a particular second to lastly get it.”
Its proud new proprietor agrees. And it’s going to be in motion as a lot as potential. Momoa says that there was no query of promoting this on, of doing something with it, apart from turning it on, and turning it up.
“There’s a particular form of magic in sure items of drugs that connects the previous to the longer term,” writes Momoa on Instagram. “Trevor Boone has been a part of my guitar journey since my very first instrument, and over time we’ve tracked down extra holy grails than we will depend.
“However this amplifier carried a special form of historical past – one we couldn’t let drift away. An excessive amount of coronary heart. An excessive amount of story. We needed to hold it within the household – and now it’s proper the place it belongs, able to hold making music.”
Boone and co stripped the carpet off the entrance. The glue has made a kind of brown mess of the Tolex however that solely provides to the vibe. Boone may need spent a decade shaking down the bushes on the lookout for this amp however Momoa says has discovered it simply in time. It’s getting put to work immediately within the studio.
“We’re gonna report in two days,” he says. “ÖOF TATATÁ is making the primary album, and I used to be like, ‘You bought a Dumble, it’s in Hawaii, it’s uncommon… Please ship it proper now. I find it irresistible, man. Perhaps we’ll clear it sometime. However not as we speak. It’s a unclean Dumble.”
If there are any Dumble sleuths holding out hope of discovering one other one like this, nicely, there may be hope. Boone says there may be one other one similar to this, unaccounted for, nonetheless with the carpet overlaying the white. One other “pearl within the oyster”.
Simply don’t take into consideration making Momoa a suggestion for his. He’s not promoting, not ever. “I’m gonna have this motherf***er buried with me!”
Momoa is a eager collector of treasured guitar gear. In 2023, for instance, he purchased the primary Martin D-28 ever made.
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