Don Randall (October 30, 1917 – December 23, 2008) was a manager in the early years of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation . He also came up with many product names, including the Telecaster , the Stratocaster , the Esquire , and the Champ . He was Leo Fender ’s partner and the sales, distribution, marketing and advertising behind the company’s rise from small California guitar maker to worldwide status.
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36-617: A corporation in December 1951). Under Randall’s marketing genius, organizational expertise and senior partnership with Leo Fender, Fender Sales grew steadily throughout the 1950s and thrived well into the 1960s on an international scale. It was he who coined the names Esquire , Telecaster (and its earlier incarnation, the Broadcaster), Stratocaster , Precision Bass (with Leo Fender), Twin Reverb , Bassman and others. Randall also spoke for Fender in
54-556: A salesman for Santa Ana, California radio supply shop, Howard Taylor Wholesale Radio, calling on Southern California radio shops, including Clarence “Leo” Fender’s shop in Fullerton, California, Fender Radio Service. Randall and Fender met shortly before the United States entered World War II; Randall had bought Taylor’s store in 1941 but sold his inventory on being drafted into the Army. During
72-492: A worldwide reputation for creating cutting edge high gain amplifier designs. His first priorities will be a new multi-channel, 150 watt Kirk Hammett Signature Model Head and a whole range of high end, high gain all tube amplifiers to be manufactured in North America. The new Fortin designed series of Randall amplifiers will replace the discontinued MTS Series. The collaboration produced a series high gain tube amplifiers such as
90-475: Is a manufacturer of solid-state and tube guitar amplifiers . Randall Amplifiers is currently a brand of U.S. Music Corp. , a subsidiary of Canadian corporate group Exertis | JAM. After graduating from community college in Santa Ana, California , Don Randall worked as a salesman for a radio supply shop, where he met Leo Fender , who was operating a nearby radio repair shop. Randall went on to serve in
108-665: The 1964 negotiations that resulted in the company’s sale to CBS ; he subsequently became vice president and general manager of the Fender Musical Instrument and Fender Sales divisions of CBS until his departure from the company in 1969. In the 1970s, he founded Randall Amplifiers . Randall was among the first six inductees into the Fender Hall of Fame in summer 2007, attending the ceremony in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his family. Randall Amplifiers Randall Amplifiers
126-632: The 667 and the Thrasher and several signature models. In addition to the Kirk Hammett signature models, Randall released the Ultimate Nullifier EN 120, a signature amp for Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian in 2014. Randall and Fortin also collaborated with The Haunted guitarist Ola Englund and designed a signature amp based on Englund's Fortin "Natas" amplifier called "Satan." On January 1, 2016, Fortin announced his partnership with Randall had ended
144-574: The Army Corps of Engineers, the Signal Corps, and Army Air Forces during World War II . After the war, he took a job as general manager of Radio & Television Equipment Co., a wholesale distributor of electronic components and discovered in 1946 that Fender had begun making a few lap steel guitars and small amplifiers. In 1946, Randall suggested that Radio & Television Equipment distribute Fender's guitars and amplifiers. Finding commercial success,
162-644: The Fender Sales Corporation and Fender Electric Instrument Company were established in February 1953, with Randall in charge of sales and distribution. Randall subsequently became vice president and general manager of the Fender Musical Instrument and Fender Sales divisions of CBS. In 1969, Randall left to found the Randall Amplifier Company in Irvine, California. Randall sold the company in 1987. In
180-744: The RM100 head and RM100C combo, and 12 for the RM1250H) in which you can insert their various preamp modules. These modules are tube preamps in themselves that model various amps, from Vox and Fender style cleans, to Marshall crunch, to all out Mesa Boogie style distortion. This series also has a rack-mount preamp unit called the RM4 that can hold up to four preamp modules at once. George Lynch , Kirk Hammett , and Scott Ian have their own signature modules and RM100 heads. The heads both have unique cosmetic differences, and some tonal difference. The only tonal difference in
198-559: The line. In April 2012, Randall confirmed that the MTS amplifiers were discontinued and would be replaced by a new, high-end line of amplifiers. In December 2011, it was announced by the head of Fortin Amplification, Inc. that they would be teaming up with Randall amplifiers to design a new tube amp line based on the Fortin Meathead amplifier. Endorsee Kirk Hammett currently has four of
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234-505: The mid-1990s, it was purchased by U.S. Music Corporation . In the early 2000s, the company worked with Bruce Egnater of Egnater Amplification to create the MTS (Modular Tube System) series of guitar amplifiers. These involve a single amp head consisting of the power amp and part of a preamp, and slots in the head (one for the RM20 head and combo, two for the RM50 head and combo and RM22 head, and 3 for
252-524: The prototypes, one which he used for the Big 4 show at Yankee Stadium and concerts in India. It was also announced that they will be addressing their current amplifier line, both solid state and tube. In April 2012, Randall Amplification Brand Director, Joe Delaney (a.k.a. Joetown) introduced Mike Fortin as an exclusive design engineer for Randall Amplification. As the founder of Fortin Amplification, Inc. he has forged
270-665: The steel guitars and amplifiers made by Leo Fender. Through Randall, Fender and Hall signed an agreement that March, marking the beginning of an extraordinarily successful partnership. Through Hall’s agency, Randall handled sales and distribution of Fender products first regionally, then nationally. Indeed, the fledgling Fender company owed its early success as much to Randall’s skilled sales organization as it did to its founder’s innovative products. Randall became president of new organization Fender Sales in February 1953 (the Fender Electric Instrument Company having become
288-416: The three modular heads is that George Lynch's Lynch Box RM100LB comes loaded with JJ E34L power tubes, Scott Ian's RM100SI comes loaded with JJ EL34 power tubes, and Kirk Hammet's RM100KH has added depth in the power section for more bottom end than the standard RM100 head. It was hinted and confirmed during Winter NAMM 2012 that the MTS line of amplifiers would be discontinued and that Egnater would take over
306-671: The war, Randall served in the Army Corps of Engineers, the Army Signal Corps and the Army Air Corps, becoming communications chief of the pre-flight school near Santa Ana Randall was an avid lifelong aviator who received his pilot’s license in the early 1950s and logged thousands of flight hours in his own aircraft. Randall left the Army in 1946 and immediately re-entered the radio business, managing Francis “F.C.” Hall’s Santa Ana radio shop, Radio-Tel. A natural salesman and an astute electrical engineer, Randall suggested that Hall distribute
324-615: Was born in Kendrick, Idaho, on Oct. 30, 1917, to Earnest and Osie Violet Randall. The family moved to California when Randall was 10 years old, and he developed an interest in radios and audio amplifiers while still in high school (he earned his ham radio operator license at age 16 in 1934). At the height of the Big Band era, Randall built a portable amplifier and speaker system that he set up at parties and dances. He graduated from Santa Ana Community College . Around 1940, Randall worked part-time as
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