Tom Bukovac

At 27:00 Tom goes into an amp he spent a long time trying to find, the Sunn Coliseum PA master volume version.

He cites this amp as the first amp to ever use a master volume, and cites Mississippi Queen by Mountain as the inspiration for hunting this amp down, in his search for Leslie West's guitar tone, and was pleasantly surprised by the versatility of the amp.

"..this is the first master volume amp ever made... KT88s..."

"...it's the exact model that Leslie West used on Mississippi Queen... I bought one just to see what it was like... if I could use it for that one cool sound once in awhile... turns out to be a lot more versatile than I thought it was going to be..."

After John decides they should change gears and discuss amps, Tom starts in at 23:17 with his unique Gretsch combo amp.

"...all these [old] Gretsch amps were made by Valco, and this is a model 6161..."

Tom explains these amps originally had multiple smaller speakers, but this specific unit was converted to a single 12" speaker at some point, and he loves it.

At 24:10, Tom explains his preference for a specific year and model of Marshall head, the plexi '68 Super Bass 100w version.

"...this is probably the best amp I've ever owned in my entire life... my favourite variant of old Marshall is the plexi 1968 Super Bass, with the lay down transformer, I buy every one of these I can find, because they're the best Marshalls..."

Tom explains his love of the clean tones he achieves with this type of head with the range of volume up to about 4, and goes on to mention Eric Johnson discussing these amps, and even refer's to this model as the Van Halen Marshall as well.

at 27:55 Tom describes his very early, potentially hand built on a "kitchen table" Matchless HC30.

"...I sent a photo of this thing, a bunch of pictures, to Rick Perotta... he went off on great detail about this being one of the first amps he made on his kitchen table..."