Kevin Silva’s family background in electronics goes back to the 1910s. His grandfather, Albert “Duke” Silva, was an early radio pioneer. Duke worked as chief engineer, designing radios, at several major radio companies between 1910 and 1954. Kevin’s dad and his two uncles had the largest OEM transformer house in the country, producing over a million transformers a year for companies like RCA, Magnavox, and Philco. Kevin learned to solder when he was seven years old. At fifteen he worked in an electronic repair shop, repairing vacuum-tube televisions. With his passion for tube electronics, Kevin started his own repair business in 1990, repairing and building vacuum-tube-related musical gear. To date he estimates he has built over 300 tube amplifiers and repaired over 28,000 amplifiers. After 30-plus years, Kevin is quite well known in the music industry; he has worked for some of the biggest names in music—Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, John Mellencamp, and Alan Jackson, to name a few. His hand-built amplifiers are relished by professional players as well as novice guitar players. Kevin has two patents: a wireless water-detection system and a clever table guitar amplifier. Kevin has been actively playing music for over 48 years, toured for almost 15 years, and has four albums of original material (Rick Springfield played on his last record!). Although somewhat unrelated, he had the world’s largest Batman collection, which was noted in Guinness World Records.