Ferg’s Amplifier Repair
8905 N. Texas Ridge Rd.
Gosport, IN 47433
Ph: 812-876-9680
E-Mail: fergsamprepair@bluemarble.net
About
 
Home My name is Rick Ferguson and I am from Bloomington, Indiana. Like most of us, I grew up with a love for music. I listened to country and western music including artists like Buck Owens, George Jones, and Hank Thompson just to name a few. However, as a kid, I cut my teeth on The Ventures. My folks had a couple of their albums and I used to play them repeatedly. The great thing about the old albums was how they panned the instruments to one channel or the other (if you were lucky to have a stereo record or record player…) making it easier to learn a part with half of the instruments missing. I started out on the drums when I was six or seven years old and later switched to guitar and five-string banjo. By the time I was 20, I had started playing the bass along with the pedal steel some where along the way. I played in rock and bluegrass bands in high school and played in 2 of the 3 jazz bands at Purdue while I attended there. At age 21, I was the bass player at the Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana. For the past 30 years, I have been playing bass for the Lloyd Wood Show.

I attended Purdue University and received an Associates Degree at United Electronics Institute in 1978. My early job experiences included T.V. repair, consumer electronics and musical instrument repair. Before Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA) in Bloomington, Indiana closed, I was a Line Support Technician. This job involved troubleshooting PLC’s, motor controllers and other industrial electronic equipment. Afterwards, I started my own business, Audioworks (servicing consumer and pro-audio equipment), and had a very successful four years helping people get their gear back in order. In 2000, I accidentally read an ad in the newspaper for a position at Harman-Becker Automotive Systems in Martinsville, Indiana. I decided to accept the position thinking I would still run my business on the side. However there was one caveat; the job required me to travel overseas. I had just hired another technician to help me out at Audioworks, so I thought I could handle both jobs simultaneously. Eventually the workload had become more than I could handle and I had to close up shop in 2001. Unfortunately Harman-Becker has closed down the Martinsville facility due to global restructuring leaving me right back to square one. Not such a bad thing, because I’m back doing what I love to do. 		 
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