Brian Wampler looked at the 1980s and saw two kinds of fire-breathing monsters. California boutique amps—smooth, articulate, punchy, the kind of gain that lets you bend a note and hear every microtonal ghost in between. British high-gain stacks—saturated, muscular, that cranked-Plexi crunch that made the decade sound the way it looked: dangerous and covered in hairspray .

He put both in one box. Emerald green sparkle. Gold hardware. The Wampler Golden Jubilee.