Thank you for letting the man talk ..

Awesome interview. I stop by a garage sale about a year ago. This older guy was selling jewelry and I noticed a fender twin reverb in back. I asked him if he was selling it which he said no, but he brought out a guitar. I was amazed how it sounded. I told him if he ever wants to sell it let me know. Anyway I send a couple weeks ago and asked again if he still had amp. He called my that evening and said come a pickup the amp. He gave me that amp for free. I’ll cherish that forever and probably keep it for my grandkids. There still good people in this world.

Came for the Dumble, stayed for Johnathan! Thanks for an incredible story…

Dude forget the Dumble ,this man is AMAZING!!!!love his stories!!!we need all the old rockers we can get!!the Dumble is nice too

Came here to see the Dumble amp, but Johnathan's stories stole the show...

Oh man, these stories warm my heart. The OG Black Rock Mesa hippies, ripping reefers and scoffing shrooms playing SLIDE BANJO thru a mofo'ing Dumble. LMAO. Thank you both. 🙏

Jonathan's stories need to be recorded for the Library of Congress! Or at least the cool crazy Uncle hall of fame. ❤

Getting the Dumble amp from this guy is really a stroke of luck. Cuz whoever ends up with this amplifier in their hands in the long run is it going to have this video telling an incredible story about where it came from to me that's worth just as much as the amplifier is to have the story behind it

I owned a 1966 Super with 4 Eminence 10' speakers for 35 yrs .. Great amp for any and all gigs large and small . I now walk with a cane because of hauling that amp all over the country gigging 3-5 nites week . Loved the sound and it never let me down !! Wore out my hips [they've been replaced ] and back . No Amp will ever give me the pleasure and sound that I got with that one ! Almost identical to this one .. sold it to a friend .. Thanx for the video . >>>>> John Driver

This dude got to live in the best of times in the best places. Great stories. Great amp.

The old fellow is a treasure himself his knowledge in his head

Johnathan is one cool dude!! Could listen his stories all day long!

I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings so I won't name names. But, it is simply amazing how players who have big names, because of hit songs that they played on or popular bands that they were in, are usually super uninteresting folks who are beyond boring to the point of awkwardness. That guy is the exact opposite of that other type of musician, he is super interesting with a bunch of crazy a** stories who is positively not awkward at all. Johnathan seems like THE dude you would want as a buddy, someone to just hang with and spend time around, yet, he wasn't on the cover of the music world's version of Vogue Magazine so he's not got that fame thing. See, it's like a spiritual thing, planets aligned in certain ways, voodoo shiznit, you know, something that just had to be how it be. Great video, great story, great person. Thanks for this, I totally enjoyed it.

Stories from the golden age of live music right there. What an awesome day this turned out to be. Cheers!

What a great story. Love these old musicians. He still has a sparkle in his eye at close to 80. I can aspire to that.

That’s how dumble started out taking fenders adding a master volume replacing electrical components with military-aircraft quality parts… as the years went by he improved the fender tone stack, added better speakers till finally it was just easier to build his own amps.

A Super A Delux An A/B/Y box with various drives and a wah in line A favorite set up for years

What a character and what a sound Mr Schneider. Came for the amp stayed for the stories!

Former Santa Cruz/Half Moon Bay... Now in Costa Rica to raise my family and surf till I die. Love this episode.

Good Grief...13:55 hits right where it's supposed to. Absolutely love it.

Nice showing respect to a great guy who had lots of fun with that great amp.

I love these iconic stories! (Hilarious when you're unloading the first haul it looks like some guy walking by things for a second, "Could I blend in and pick up a guitar?")

Absolutely priceless, stories like these are what brings equipment to life, thank you

This man needs his own channel!

One of the best ECG episodes yet. Great stuff guys.

So cool to see this video. I was a musician in Santa Cruz when Jango was around and I know all those guys and we had great times in the 70's. Annie is like my older sister and she and Jonathan and I spent a lot of time at Planet X Pottery outside of Gerlach NV and would go out on the playa with our stuff and a generator and put on some fantastic events, the last one was a 4th of July thing out there on the playa with 5 class C firework launch stations and Jonathan brought a big bag of mushrooms. At 3:00 am we were all laughing non stop. The burners showed up and that was it for the Black Rock playa. Anyway, Jonathan moved up to Mt. Vernon and we would come up and do gigs with whatever band he had going at the time but I hadn't seen him for a long time until someone told me about this video. I've gotta see if I can run him down. Enjoy that amp whoever has it. Davey, Jonathan's brother, had some cool vintage tweed fender amps he played through in Jango and they sounded amazing even without Howard messing with them. Later

That is one of the best stories and music history I've heard. Johnathan is awesome! That Amp's got to be played. Congrats

How effing cool❗️ I saw my first concert at the Cow Palace, April 9th, 1993. As a Bay Area native, I can’t tell you how Much I loved watching this video and hearing all those stories from a time that I wish I could have experienced, especially now seeing how different the area and the people are. ✌🏻❤️🙏🏻

Behind the most unassuming doors can be such incredible stories.

Awesome man right there! Love the fact that you let him tell those stories, priceless!!!!

You should write a book on all these great stories

This is the best thing on KZfaq to date. This is what this platform was created for. Thank you!

What a great episode. This fella has an amazing history! I've been to the Catalyst many times! Thanks for posting this.

That amp sounds so good. Even through KZfaq

Great video! You should consider getting together with Jonathon to make a series about the music scene back then - he must have so many stories that deserve to be covered. 😎

Loved hearing Jango and the stories.

Love these stories - the history is just as important as the hardware.

What an epic episode ! Thank you gentlemen !✌🏻😎🎸

That was so cool, thanks for letting us hear his stories

Great interview Jonathan! Thanks for contributing this piece of our history. I've lost those recordings of Jango 😏. I remember playing my Martin D28 with a soundhole pickup through a Fender Bandmaster. I've been trying to get that tone ever since. It fed back so bad that the acoustic body vibrated like it was coming apart, so I switched to a Fender Thinking later. Love from your brother David 😁

Wow. First the 20 second s of playing sound so great. I love that dumbly sound .so many negative comments about price. But what s odd in classical world. Audience wants and loves their musicians to have the best. First chair violinist of all big city orchestras have bows just the bow could be 50k Violin in the millions. Itzack. Perlman had a tour to show off his red violin. Worth millions. I saw that. I srv before he had dumble small place and after that with one it was great. Saw Larry Carlton with a dumble. Wow look up emotion wound us live on KZfaq. Eric Johnson. Front row saw him play dumble. Great

The production quality is incredible!

He is a treasure. Great video. More please

Now that was fun!! Super highlight type of day today!! Emerald City makes it happen over and over!! Awesome SCORE!!

What a fabulous road trip! Thanks for sharing.

What a cool cat! I hope I age as gracefully as him.

I believe that metal "sign" is actually a plate for a printing press. I can't imagine many of those survive. Super cool bit of memorabilia.

Amazing story and I’m so grateful you guys are preserving this kind of history and sharing it with the community because it’s really special and really inspiring. Well done Trevor and Ken and well told Jonathan.

Thank you! He is quite the character!

Really great interesting guy , great stories, man I would love to have been in Santa Cruz in the 60s.

Great episode. I remember santa Cruz in the early 70's, i was going to say very well but that's not quite accurate. If you know what i mean. Also los gatos. Really a good music scene happening then. My buddy took me to dumbles shop once. Nice guy, he had stuff everywhere in that place. He made stuff for alot of the bigger acts to tour with so they could take a beating. Nice memories.

Dude you have the coolest job

Man, who has had a life like this guy? So awesome to hear his stories. Thanks for letting him tell his story.

There are a ton of likeable youtube guitar/gear people out there but I can’t think of a single one more likable than Trevor. Just seems like a nice person. I watch a Trevor vid even when I have zero interest in the gear (rare but still). I just wanted to say that. Trevor, you’re a likable cat.

That slide banjo. So lovely.

I want to hang out with Jonathon and just let him tell me his stories. Everyone that watched this video feels the same way,I bet. For once the Dumble was not the star of the video.

Amazing stories. Awesome that you help preserve them! :)

Well worth the watch...great great stuff. That start sounded soo good through that amp

Coolest video I've seen in a while! Great story! What a character!

Amazing episode. Amazing man. I could listen to his stories all day. So cool. Thanks for this episode

Back to the future revisited. That was really something. Thx for sharing.

Amazing! What a dream job! Emerald City Guitars is the Best! Another great video , thanks.

What a legend Jonathan is. You can tell he's the genuine article

So Sweet you two at the end! Heart warming!

Wow. Amazing. Thanks for sharing some wonderful history. What a life. And what a fantastic sound. Hope it finds a good home that can keep all that spirit alive.

Great wholesome video guys!

Well done. Bravo!!

Great interview! I could listen to him all day. I hope the amp finds a good home.

The world is full of amazing people what a great story amazing,best one yet boys 🙏🙏🙏🙏✌️

What an awesome story! Love seeing stuff like this, just keeping the music world alive!........the amp is cool too 😉

Brilliant video and clearly a top bloke

Great episode/story.

The stories alone made this worth watching. But oh man, the tone coming out of that amp when the strat got plugged in was incredibly & impressively sweet!

Another super cool dude!

Beautiful story I really enjoyed hearing him talk about the old days

perfect story and perfect man and perfect amplifier

Love love love this channel.

way, way, way cool story. hopefully, everybody that owns artifacts like these will have the same outlook as mr.jonathan. thank you sir.

I live in Santa Cruz County and loved the story this man had to tell. The closest I have been to a Dumble was at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in the first row with Robben Ford was playing his Dumble. Great video....thanks!!

Great video. Thank you very much

Really great !!!!!! A very cool Gentleman !!!!!! Cheers !!!

Love the Santa Cruz History!

Great one Trevor, I really enjoyed it. And what an amp of course. Darrick, 50yrs young...guitarist from Seattle Washington !

Glad i got to watch this thanks 🙏

True musician and a great story. Thanks

😮🔥🔥🔥 This was awesome!!!

It would be cool if Emrald could publish the circuit.

Well done Trev!

It’s all just screws and cables without a story to hold it together. A Latino myself, it really got me when this living legend and absolute sunbeam said “soy Peruano”. ✨

Great stories and history

Thanks, what a character.

M fin legend !! This guy !!! Amazing Man !!! Many thanks

What an amazing story.

Would love to have a follow-up video showing the inside of this amp

Man, Santa Cruz seemed magical when we visited the town and beach, we were coming back from Super Bowl 50 back to Az., with less people there in the 60-70s…wow

So many great memories. What an interesting guy.

I’ve never watched a guitar video till the end…I hope to see this gentlemen on another episode..

Great story. I was around back then. Yea, $125/Month Rent was right. Thanks for the story.

The Path with Heart and Soul.

Great story!