Cipollina had a unique guitar sound, mixing solid state and valve amplifiers as early as 1965. He is considered one of the fathers of the San Francisco psychedelic rock sound.
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To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed a one-of-a-kind amplifier stack but he himself adorned the guitar's plexigs [see the photo].
His Gibson SG guitars had two (or three!) pickups, one for bass, one for middle klang and one for treble. In this early tech the bass pickup fed into two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack, each equipped with two 15-inch speakers.
The treble pickups fed he used to Fender amps: a Fender Twin Reverb and a Fender Dual Showman that drove six Wurlitzer horns.
After leaving Quicksilver he formed his own band, and leatly he was a member of the San Francisco All Stars. After that he played with numerous other bands and died too early, debilitated by occupational diseases.
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