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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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NEW YORK — Ken Shapiro, a former child television actor whose hit 1974 film, “The Groove Tube,” anticipated “Saturday Night Live” by a year with sketches that wickedly satirized TV, died Nov. 18 at ...

`I won’t say this is the funniest film you’ll see,” wrote New York Post critic Archer Winston about “The Groove Tube” in 1974. “But I do say it quite clearly marks the emergence of a comedy group that ...

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.

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 ...