COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Wouldn't it be great if Jimi Hendrix used one of my guitar amps, thought Pat Quilter. It was the mid-'60s when a musician friend complained that guitar amplifiers cost five times ...

Wouldn’t it be great if Jimi Hendrix used one of my guitar amps, thought Pat Quilter. It was the mid-’60s when a musician friend complained that guitar amplifiers cost five times more than the $250 he ...

Forty-six years later, that amp's still running. [ Quilter was living at home, and home was on the El Toro Marine base, where his dad, Charles Quilter, was a two-star general in charge of the 3rd ...

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