{"id":902743,"date":"2026-05-01T04:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/i-told-him-the-serial-number-his-mind-was-blown-he-said-it-was-princes-no-1-amp-on-the-purple-rain-tour-how-an-80s-session-guitar-icon-accidentally-ende\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:22:24","slug":"i-told-him-the-serial-number-his-mind-was-blown-he-said-it-was-princes-no-1-amp-on-the-purple-rain-tour-how-an-80s-session-guitar-icon-accidentally-ende","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/i-told-him-the-serial-number-his-mind-was-blown-he-said-it-was-princes-no-1-amp-on-the-purple-rain-tour-how-an-80s-session-guitar-icon-accidentally-ende\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI told him the serial number.His mind was blown \u2013 he said it was Prince\u2019s No. 1 amp on the Purple Rain tour\u201d: How an \u201980s session guitar icon accidentally ended up with the ultimate Prince amp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Martinez was looking for a backup, and a certain Mesa\/Boogie caught his eye. Little did he know, it would turn out to be a legendary gear treasure&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/gear\/amps\/eddie-martinez-prince-purple-rain-amp\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lyndia Schildgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Martinez was looking for a backup, and a certain Mesa\/Boogie caught his eye. Little did he know, it would turn out to be a legendary gear treasure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2838,41040,192],"tags":[15388,14349],"class_list":{"0":"post-902743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blown","8":"category-serial","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-blown","11":"tag-serial"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}