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Mitch Bourgeois

Click Here to See Mitch and NielsSomewhere deep in a concrete and iron bunker in Lebanon (Oregon, that is…) is a guy with more daring than sense. Mitch Bourgeois got started in this whole mess by walking into a music store and seeing a tweed suitcase with an amp built into it, and “Nielsen” on the front; it was love at first sight! Two years and countless clipped wires and solder burns later, Bourgeois ArtAmps continues to make music while avoiding noise ordinance violations.

Under the ever-vigilant gaze of the Tube Collective’s Fezzed Founder, Niels Nielson, Mitch has avoided electrocution while maintaining a path to the freezer in the ever growing creative detritus of his garage. Originator of the amp building technique he calls “Clip-and-Play” Mitch continues turn out amps that snub the snobs. He describes himself as the “Quintessential Ordinary Guy”…Jack of all trades, Master of none…guitar player, builder, and repairer, artist, reluctant auto mechanic, enthusiastic motorcycle rider, formally trained as a dental technician, and pastor of a growing church in Lebanon, Mitch works in addiction recovery with a web-based 12-step program, and local groups.

Married for more than twenty years with three daughters, Mitch enjoys the blessing of his family who all think his amps are totally awesome. Hey, what could be better than that?

Mitch is not a member of the Didi Gospodinova Fan Club, which has subjected him to sabotage by other members of the Collective who occasionally leave the “Plastic Head of Didi” in his car or garage after a meeting, thereby guaranteeing his return to the next meeting to get rid of the thing.

The Bourgeois Bayou Amp

The Bourgeois Number 7

Bourgeois Bayou

Bourgeois Number 7

Bourgeois HPIM5237

Bourgeois Newport

Bourgeois Suitcase

Bourgeois Newport

Bourgeios New Yorker

Bourgeios Samurai

Bourgeois New Yorker

Bourgeois Samura

Self Portraits

Bourgeios Thunderbird

Bourgeois Toaster

Bourgeois Thunderbird

Bourgeios TED

Bourgeios Toaster

Bourgeois TED

Bourgeois Toaster

Bourgeios Tweed Cramp

Bourgeios Tweed Cramp

Bourgeois Tweed

Bourgeois New Yorker Cab

Sporting a Leopard Skin Fez

Leopard Skin Fez with Medal of Honor

 Sporting a Leopard Skin Fez - With Petco Medal of Honor

 Leopard Skin Fez with Petco Medal of Honor

Mitchless Amp

Mitchless 2 Amplifier

The Mitchless

The Mitchless 2

The T-Bird

Tel-Lid-Caster

The Thunderbird

The Tel-Lid-Caster


 

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