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As employees of Mountain Biofuel pump 800 gallons of fuel into a semi-truck and three tours buses, they might hear "Bring Me Some Water" being played nearby. As the new Biofuel distribution business opens this week, one of their first customers will...

  There’s a great scene in “The Blues Brothers” where the band finds itself playing at Bob’s Country Bunker behind a sheet of chicken wire in some god-awful rural Illinois swamp. Anyone can see the fear in the eyes of Matt Murphy and Steve C...

Music & Computers November 1997 issue Rand helped build many of the interactive kiosk and web applications including the World Jam, MIDI/sample based multi-user recording studio...... EMP World Jam Music & Computers

There was a reason that bands like Cream, Blind Faith, hell, even Stockholm Syndrome make history. Theyre just good. When the individual players in a band are of a certain skill and caliber, no matter what the groups material, theyll rock; most of...

FourOnTheFloor  THE GUITAR KNOBS MAY 27, 2019 BLOG What are your four ‘must-have’ pedals? That is what we ask our guests to share with you in our Four On the Floor podcast segment . Rand has taken on the monumental tas...

Charles Saufley October 13, 2016 When the Stompbox Hall of Fame is built, the wing dedicated to Mike Beigel and Mu-Tron will be a place of pilgrimage to players and fellow builders alike. To enthusiasts who savor pedal aesthetics, the corridors...

Encinitas, CA (March 17, 2016) -- Musitronics founder Mike Beigel, creator of the fabled Mu-Tron III, has collaborated with professional guitarist Rand Anderson to develop a unique new stompbox for guitar. In a compact and robust aluminum enclosure,...

Mu-FX has expanded their pedal line with a new compact pedal. The Micro-Tron III is described as “a compact, convenient, and affordable” version of the classic Musitronics Corp. Mu-Tron III envelope filter, which was originally introduced in the 197...

Episode 23 Musician and Mu-Tron's Rand Anderson discusses JFA and the Skate Punk Arizona scene, Black Sabbath, KISS, Cheap Trick, Country Music and stuck in a cloud of smoke with the Highwayman! Musician and Mu-Tron's Rand Anderson discusses...

Mu-FX introduces the Boostron 3 multi-function all analog guitar stompbox at NAMM 2016 Mu-FX , born from the creator of the fabled Mu-Tron III , has returned to NAMM with a hot new stompbox for guitar. In a lighweight and robust aluminum enclosure,...

Sweet Juanita co-founder wound up embracing “all sorts of different musical genres.” Author Dryw Keltz Publish Date, San Diego Reader May 16, 2024 Sweet Juanita Rand Anderson’s parents were big country fans. So naturally, he re...

As he ties his thick dreads back, Rand Anderson orders a medium coffee at Late for the Train and contemplates the remainder of the afternoon. He jumps into his unassuming, extended white tour van, with the sole sticker reading...

Reggae frontmen like to travel light. Packing ones toiletries, tri-colored Bob Marley T-shirts, and dreadlock cozies is enough workpacking an entire entourage of backup musicians is a major undertaking. Thats why, when titans of reggae pass through...