Article: Orange: 40th Anniversary OR50.(GEAR: Roundup)(Product/service evaluation)

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AS TIME KEEPS ON KEEPING ON, THE ICONIC AURA OF ORANGE AMPS SEEMS TO BE GROWING. THE brand's absolutely sick color scheme is as identifiable as its potent, fiber-British tones. For 40 years, everyone from Peter Green, Jimmy Page, and Ike Turner, to modern badasses such as Clutch and Queens of the Stone Age have squeezed the juicy fruit of the mighty Orange. The OR50 is based on the company's early '70s designs known as "pics only" models by Orange diehards--a term born from having only funky symbols on the control panels that ranged from a cryptic "orange fist" for the HF control, to a not-so-cryptic "bass clef with arrow" signifying the ...

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