Who would've thought back in 1972 when the Legendary Pignose model 7-100 was introduced to the world that it would still be doing its job in 2011.

Not only that, it's basically still selling at about the same price.
There were 50 of these amps given to famous musicians in 1972, an example such as the one at Pignose Corporate headquarters in Las Vegas that was given to Keith Richards who kept it for many years and then gave it to his groundskeeper who in turn sold it back to Pignose in about 1990.

We cherish this piece of rock & roll history.

But there's another one that belonged to Eric Clapton until early this year when he donated many of his instruments to charity and among them was his legendary Pignose 7-100 amplifier. A couple of weeks before the auction we received many phone calls regarding this amp and realized that it was creating a "feeding frenzy" among collectors.

One person that phoned Pignose claimed he was prepared to pay $3,000.00 for it and those of us in the office all agreed that this was unheard of, $3,000.00 for a Pignose 7-100 amp that originally sold for $79.95.

Well we were all in for a big surprise on the day of the auction, because this $79.95 amplifier was sold to a very happy collector for over $9,000.00.

One thing about Pignose is that we've already tried to build in tremendous value in our products -- a great bang for the buck!