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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 pod...

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Listen to The Truth About Vintage Amps with Skip Simmons, a Music podcast by The Fretboard Journal. Stream 170 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Ep. 166: "Seattle, Loma Rica, Amsterdam"

Before talking amps, we talk life! Longtime friend of the show John Vanderslice (Tiny Telephone) joins us to talk about moving to the Nether...

01:33:13Jun 11, 2026

Ep. 165: "There's an Ethos?"

Episode 165 of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons tackles all of your questions about guitar tube amps! Thank...

01:37:39May 17, 2026

Ep. 164: "Kern County Wool Growers"

Episode 164 of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons tackles all of your questions about guitar tube amps! Thank...

01:20:16Apr 25, 2026

Ep. 162: "The Temple of Music"

Episode 162 of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons tackles all of your questions about guitar tube amps! This...

01:29:27Mar 20, 2026

Ep. 161: "Tremolo Thursday"

Episode 161 of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast, where amp tech Skip Simmons tackles all of your questions about guitar tube amps. Thank...

01:10:32Mar 2, 2026

Ep. 159: "TAVA, Again...Exclamation Point"

Episode 159 of the Truth About Vintage Amps: Beans, two-prong ASMR, peeling diodes (and faceplates) and more! Thank our sponsors: Grez Guita...

01:25:58Jan 17, 2026

Ep. 157: "Coyote and Deer"

It's the 157th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all things tub...

01:34:13Dec 18, 2025

Ep. 156: "A Hoop and a Stick"

It's the 156th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all things tub...

01:46:38Nov 26, 2025

Ep. 155: "Realistic Carnival"

It's the 155th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all things tub...

01:45:38Nov 1, 2025

Ep. 154: "Compromise the Windings"

It's the 154th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions on all things tub...

01:28:09Oct 17, 2025

Ep. 153: "A C in Chemistry"

It's the 153rd episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps and Skip is having a happy day fielding your amp questions. From cleaning tweed to Ma...

01:33:46Sep 18, 2025

Ep. 152: "Gridley Bias"

It's the much-delayed 152nd episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps! Thanks, as always, for being a part of the world's finest call-in tube...

56:43Sep 3, 2025

Ep. 151: "It Starts Out Cool"

It's the 151st episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps! Thanks, as always, for being a part of the world's finest call-in tube amp repair sh...

01:20:23Jul 25, 2025

Ep. 150: "Throw It In the River"

It's the 150th episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps! How did that happen? Thanks, as always, for being a part of the world's finest call-...

01:40:52Jul 5, 2025

Ep. 148: "Lining Up"

We're back with episode 148 of the Truth About Vintage Amps: Jason survives a month in Peru; the schematics of acupuncture; speaker break-in...

01:35:12Jun 1, 2025

Ep. 147: "Kosher Sound"

Episode 147 of the Truth About Vintage Amps: Jason is headed to Peru, hemp speakers, resistors, modding PAs for harps, Lilly vs Lily at the...

01:48:27Apr 26, 2025