Amplifier company Laney is celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. A friend had a Laney in the 90s, but I haven’t heard much about them since and didn’t realize how long they had been around. I was reminded of Laney the other day when I saw G3 in concert and noticed that Paul Gilbert uses Laney amplifiers. Tony Iommi and the guitarists from Dragonforce are also Laney users. Reading the history of Laney is fairly interesting. Lyndon Laney, the founder, played in a band called “The Band of Joy” with none other than John Bonham and Robert Plant before they moved on to Led Zeppelin.