12/1/2023 0 Comments Hartke bass amp![]() ![]() ![]() People became interested in hearing the full sound that they heard at live performances and in the concert hall at home. In the early ’50s, the concept of home High Fidelity was born. LH: It was after graduating High School in 1971 that I heard about an audio engineer in the neighboring town of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, who was looking for help in his electronics laboratory. ![]() Jack was in New York last August and I did an hour-long video interview with him at Hartke’s 48th Street Bass Lounge.įBPO: How did you get involved in the technical, electronics side of things? It’s great how it worked out that Jack’s been a friend for years and has been playing Hartke for over twenty years now. I played all those Cream and Hendrix songs in a band in junior high and high school. It was definitely Jack Bruce who got me interested in all things bass. I wore out many copies of Fresh Cream and Disraeli Gears back in the day. When Jack Bruce and Cream showed up around 1967, it was time to get a bass guitar. At the time I wanted to be George, so I bought a Zim-Gar guitar (I couldn’t afford a Gretsch) and took about three lessons. It was just a matter of what instrument you wanted to play. You had no choice, like it or not, you had to be a Beatle. Then around 1964 there came the Beatles and the British Invasion and that just kicked things right over the top. There were so many great songs and groups on the radio, and they repeated the songs so often that you got to know them in detail. Listening to Top 40 radio stations in New York in the ’60s was a very exciting thing. LH: I always loved music and in the early ’60s my transistor radio was my best friend. Larry Hartke is co-founder of Hartke Systems, manufacturers of bass guitar amplifiers and speaker cabinets.įBPO: What kind of musical upbringing did you have? Can I assume you started out as a player? Top photo, L-R: Larry Hartke, Jon Liebman, Jack Bruce Co-founder of mega-popular bass amp and speaker cabinet company tells FBPO the whole story behind Hartke SystemsĮxclusive interview with FBPO’s Jon Liebman ![]()
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