That Time the Navy Used the Grateful Dead's Amps to Listen to Soviet Subs

Rosie McGee was cracking up at her desk when Dennis "Wiz" Leonard walked in from lunch. "What's the story?" Wiz asked McGee, then a receptionist and bookkeeper at Alembic, a California-based custom electric guitar, bass, and pre-amp company where Wiz worked as an audio engineer. "Well, the Department of Defense just called me," she told him. "They were asking if we could defer the purchase of our next four 3500s, so they could get four." McGee was referring to the McIntosh MC3500, a 350-watt tub...