Allman Brothers Band Berry Oakley Fender Bass Amplifier

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Allman Brothers Band Berry Oakley Fender Bass Amplifier

[Deluge Of Sound]

Awesome.

If for no other reason than keeping Barry Oakley alive in people's minds.

[SlingBass4]

Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound

Awesome.

If for no other reason than keeping Barry Oakley alive in people's minds.

+1! Barry will remain alive for ALL that saw him, and by most who have heard him (in one form or another). One of the best, IF not the top, bassists I've seen live

[prd004]

I wish the general populace knew exactly how good he really was!

[Winemule]

Barry Oakley ran a dry-cleaning business in Marietta, Georgia, not too far from the old Bullet Stop (Fire automatic weapons! Visa and Mastercard welcomed!). Berry Oakley, no relation, played bass in a band with two guitarists, two drummers, and a keyboard player who could sing pretty good.

[Flabass]

Isn't that the Fender amp they called "the animal?"

Saw Barry with the ABB live. Awesome is all I can say.

RIP Barry.

[GrowlerBox]

Originally Posted by Winemule

Barry Oakley ran a dry-cleaning business in Marietta, Georgia, not too far from the old Bullet Stop (Fire automatic weapons! Visa and Mastercard welcomed!). Berry Oakley, no relation, played bass in a band with two guitarists, two drummers, and a keyboard player who could sing pretty good.

Looks like a point well missed.

A legend indeed, but for $17500, I'd want what's left of the motorcycle as well

Too soon?

[77PBass]

Wow...Berry used only 400 watts and 2x15's to compete with Duane & Dickies 200 Marshall watts and 16x12's?

That must be some magical amp.

[lbwdog]

Please guys, it's; BERRY

[Russell L]

R.I.P., Berry. I saw him live, and Duane. I love Berry's lines. They are unusual, but also simple. But, not always so easy to play. I always liked his philosophy, too, to have his bass just be like a tractor. Simple. I've played a lot of early ABB tunes, and I always loved picking out Berry's lines. He was big into the brothers and sisters feeling at the Big House, too.

I could play nothing but ABB covers forever and be happy.

[spufman]

Very cool. Berry Oakley was a beautiful player.

[fhm555]

Apparently Berry is not so loved and revered outside the family of fellow bass floggers. At least not among the well heeled fans of early ABB.

This is at least the third realisting of his amp on eBay in the last few months at the same price from the same seller, with no takers.

As a born and bred southern boy who ranks Berry and company as one of my major influences it's kind of sad, but times are tough all over so it's not a real big surprise to see endowments are as down as everything else.

I have reached the point where I could care less if I ever heard Stairway To Heaven again in my life, but whenever I hear a cut from The Allman Brothers Band all the way up through Eat A Peach, the first few notes never fail to bring on the chicken skin in anticipation of some excellent tuneage.

When I hear the Stairway intro it brings to mind my mother-in-law at the door with a suitcase while something like "Please Call Home" or "Little Martha" bring to mind an old and dear friend who just dropped by for a most welcome surprise visit.

That's not to take away a thing from their current bass man. Oteil walks this earth swinging a massive set of cojones so the tradition of greatness on the low end of the ABB is still in very capable hands.

[RED J]

[quote=77PBass;10753086]Wow...Berry used only 400 watts and 2x15's to compete with Duane & Dickies 200 Marshall watts and 16x12's?

I had a PS 300 and it was a seriously gutsy amp, wringing 75 watts each out of 4 6550's. I know the 400 had to have more than one bottom to get the full wattage, spl would have increased dramatically, no ?

Also isn't ABB known for keeping stage volume at sane levels ?

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by RED J

Also isn't ABB known for keeping stage volume at sane levels ?

Not in my experience. I sat at the monitor board for a few shows (late 70s, early 80s) and it was crazy loud. IIRC Dickey had a JBL-loaded full stack and at least one cranked 100 watt Marshall, maybe a couple even.

[JTE]

Wow... The 400PS was 435 WRMS if you used three 4Ω cabinets with it, so you'd be moving a LOT of air as well as having quite a bit of big push from the transformers in there. Plus, those photos show what looks like Showman or Dual Showman head sitting on top of the 400. I'm betting Berry used multiple cabinets as well as two amps. My recollection of The Tractor is that at least one of them had stereo outs so the Guild/Hagstrom pickup went to one amp and the two Jazz bass PUPs went to another amp.

Duane is STILL my favorite guitar player ever. The direct connection between his mind and the music coming out of the guitar is amazing to this day, rivaled only my Jeff Beck. And the whole ABB collective improvisation is what I love in music. I'm really saddened that the concept of an interactive dialogue between the bass, drums, guitar, and keys that they used was ignored in favor of the turgid mindless repetitive underscoring for mindless guitar in what became "southern rock". The ABB has much more to do with live Cream and the Grateful Dead at their best (and John Coltrane and Miles Davis too) than with Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, et. al.

John

[Matt Dean]

Yea, times are tough and $17K is a lot to ask for an amp... even one as cool and historic as this one.

How about that Les Paul sitting on top of Berry's amp? That's some flaming top its got!

[CDweller]

Originally Posted by JTE

Wow... The 400PS was 435 WRMS if you used three 4Ω cabinets with it, so you'd be moving a LOT of air as well as having quite a bit of big push from the transformers in there. Plus, those photos show what looks like Showman or Dual Showman head sitting on top of the 400. I'm betting Berry used multiple cabinets as well as two amps. My recollection of The Tractor is that at least one of them had stereo outs so the Guild/Hagstrom pickup went to one amp and the two Jazz bass PUPs went to another amp.

Duane is STILL my favorite guitar player ever. The direct connection between his mind and the music coming out of the guitar is amazing to this day, rivaled only my Jeff Beck. And the whole ABB collective improvisation is what I love in music. I'm really saddened that the concept of an interactive dialogue between the bass, drums, guitar, and keys that they used was ignored in favor of the turgid mindless repetitive underscoring for mindless guitar in what became "southern rock". The ABB has much more to do with live Cream and the Grateful Dead at their best (and John Coltrane and Miles Davis too) than with Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, et. al.

John

Yeah, I wouldn't call The ABB "southern rock". They were distinguished sons of the south, no doubt, but the music was head and shoulders over the pap peddled as southern rock.

[greenboy]

And what pap would that be? Even though I hate playing Sweat Hog Alabama, and toy with Werewolves Of London during it, if it gets asked for more than one in a night, there were some nice bass lines in a lot of the LS catalog.

I don't run away from some of Dave Schools' nice work in Widespread Panic, and they get lumped in the category too. Otiel, what's he doing these days?

[Big Mike Ipp]

Went down to Gainesville and stopped in at Lipham to nose around, ended up striking a conversation with the owner and he showed me all the checks the band sent him to pay for their gear (this head included I believe). Really cool to see a piece of history like this! Also had a picture of him with Tom Petty when he worked for them, all around cool little place with a lot of history.

[CDweller]

Originally Posted by greenboy

And what pap would that be? Even though I hate playing Sweat Hog Alabama, and toy with Werewolves Of London during it, if it gets asked for more than one in a night, there were some nice bass lines in a lot of the LS catalog.

I don't run away from some of Dave Schools' nice work in Widespread Panic, and they get lumped in the category too. Otiel, what's he doing these days?

Can't really mention my estimation of pap without offending someone, and thus it was indecorous of me to reference music I don't resonate with as pap.

I liked some of Leon Wilkerson's and Ed King's stuff with Skynyrd. The songs were simple, but that's the beauty of rock and roll- it doesn't have to be complicated to evoke feeling.

I stand by my statement of the ABB being musically head and shoulders above other bands in that genre.

Now your cabinets, otoh, are not pap, and I eagerly await the four I have ordered from two separate vendors.