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The "Real" Story behind the "SMF" Name? |
During interviews for my initial SC-site research I was given two explanations for the origin of the "SMF" name:
And here is some new information (another explanation, which I quoted here) that came to me only recently (July, 2007) from a SC site visitor and someone who visited the Mahwah-NJ plant back when and who is a friend of Charlie Knox, the developer of the Tour Series and SMF lines... "Bill Eberline did the exterior SMF designs - sourcing the long-fingered speaker cab corners from a company in Connecticut - they are still available from Grangers. The other person who did the USA Tour Series and SMF electronics development - as we all complained to him [including Leslie West] of the 'cleanness' of the Mk. IV - was Charlie Knox. Charlie had presented John [Lee] and Bill the Tour Series / SMF amp guts - without the box. They asked Charlie, 'What is it?' to which Charlie stated, 'a super mutha fukah.' The [original] SMF head enclosure came from a 200-Watt Marshall Major that got hacked up to make a 'Prototype' SMF enclosure." Regardless of who actually named this amp, the name stuck. Whether it's an appropriate moniker is in the ear of the user (and the audience).
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