In an important and far-reaching move, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation announced today that it has acquired certain assets of Groove Tubes LLC. Among other assets, FMIC purchased the Groove ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Shapiro, director, writer, and star of the independent sketch comedy film The Groove Tube, died on Nov. 18 at his home in Los ...

Nick Carr likes his music gear to be old school, which explains why he was groping in a box for a vintage guitar effects pedal during a liquidation sale at the Groove Tubes factory in San Fernando ...

The transistor may rule the electronics world today, but before solid state moved in, vacuum state was king. Tubes, or valves if you’re from Europe, were the only way to fly. Every good hacker knew ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Shapiro, writer and director “The Groove Tube” and “Modern Problems,” died of cancer Saturday in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 76.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Ken Shapiro, a former child actor and director of the 1974 movie “The Groove Tube,” has died. He was 75. His daughter, Rosy Rosenkrantz, said Wednesday that Shapiro died on Nov ...

Ken Shapiro, director, writer, and star of the independent sketch comedy film The Groove Tube, died on Nov. 18 at his home in Los Cruces, N.M. after a battle with cancer. He was 76. Born in Newark, ...

The influential and hilarious 1974 spoof of television marked the movie debuts of Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Ken Shapiro, who directed, produced, co-wrote and starred ...