Berry Oakley's rig?

[ahc]

And listen hard to the live at the filmore version of "One Way Out" and how coming out of the jam he comes back in on the 4 instead of the 1 but then slides right back in. I still can't figure out he does it. You go wait a minute - what just happened-----wow.

Fixed.

 

[greybeard125]

Thanks man -- brain fart.. Couldn't remember the name of the tune

 

[mntngrown]

Yep. Something like bass being part of a bigger whole rather than a whole lot of bass.

There is a video on youtube designed to be a tribute to Bob Babbitt by Phil Chen and Bob Glaub. They both discussed a bass player's job being a critical support for great songs, and singers or similar. I spent my weekends in the Fillmore and Winterland in the 60's and early 70's. Somehow I missed the ABB, but lived with the Fillmore East album when it came out. I actually went to school with the great opening acts like Albert King. I'm so old I got to see the "Santana Blues band" open for somebody, and remember a young nervous Carlos just throwin down the blues. The interesting thing to me is, I have paid good money to be mesmerized, and I was, by Marcus Miller live and Victor Wooten live with Bela Fleck a couple times. BUT..I never bought an album because I wanted to listen to them at home. I bought a live Weather report dvd, and a live Jaco dvd, and watched them over and over. My favorite was when he sang and played "Fannie May", and much to my surprise, Joe Zawinul on the grand piano. So I think we all respond to our musical influences, and want to hear what moves us. FYI I have no doubt that just as O'tiel does a great reserved job on the Trucks Tedeschi albums on a P-bass, and with the ABB too, I am sure Marcus and Victor would do great jobs playing pocket player gigs like that too. In closing my wordy post, I am still amazed that Duane and Dickie and Mr Oakley were so accomplished at such a young age. RIP

 

[mntngrown]

And yes I know Mr Betts is still with us. Wish he would tour! By the way "Somebody loan me a dime" Has nothing to do with Mr Oakley, but blew me away. That thread about is the blues dead or dying cracks me up. OK bye sorry OT

 

[Gizmot]

Yeah - those guys could play and the way their parts fit together was magic.

 

[mntngrown]

Amen

 

[JOME77]

And yes I know Mr Betts is still with us. Wish he would tour! By the way "Somebody loan me a dime" Has nothing to do with Mr Oakley, but blew me away. That thread about is the blues dead or dying cracks me up. OK bye sorry OT

Betts and his band played a gig at the Capital Theater in Macon a few months ago. I didn't make the show but I heard he sounded good. Some local guys that attended stated that he played all of the tunes that he wrote with the ABB. Unfortunately he filed some type of a legal injunction that forbids ABB from doing the songs that he wrote. That's a shame becasue even though he pinned them, the band brought them to life.

 

[jerry]

Betts and his band played a gig at the Capital Theater in Macon a few months ago. I didn't make the show but I heard he sounded good. Some local guys that attended stated that he played all of the tunes that he wrote with the ABB. Unfortunately he filed some type of a legal injunction that forbids ABB from doing the songs that he wrote. That's a shame becasue even though he pinned them, the band brought them to life.

They still do Elizabeth Reed, Revival and others that Betts didn't sing.

 

[Bflat]

Joeme77 said
"I spoke to Dave this morning and he said that he thought that towards the end Berry was plaing through a Mcintosh 400 or 800 power amp w/cabinets loaded with 15" JBL speakers (made by Buddy Thornton) but he couldn't remember the pre he was using. He also mentioned that he thought that Berry's old rig wound up with Joe Dan Petty (an ABB rodie that also played with another Capricorn group called Grinderswitch). He's going to give a couple guys a call that were with the ABB in the earlier years and let me know what he finds out."

to all the people that want to know which speakers Berry Used with his fender 400 ps.... I know this is an old thread but I have these cabinets, I got them out of a basement in Macon Ga and the guy told me that Joe Petty left them there years ago, and he got them after Berry died as they were on tour with them. as to who made them I can't tell as they have know name on them but there are pic sof them on stage wih Berry and his 400 ps will upload pics by tomorrow.

 

[Foz]

Having smoked dope and drunk beer while coming down from Psilocybin Mushrooms/LSD/Peyote at Barry's grave at the Rose Hill Cemetery...

I am certain he would be using a JGR Pre with a modern high voltage pro evel PA amp and a greenboy 66 - thanks for asking [just as I did].

 

[Bflat]

There were 6 of these cabinets and Berry used 3 of them 2 on his side of the stage and one on the other side with Duane. When I got the 2 I have the JBL 140's were gone, but you can see all the detail in the stage pics and in the cabs I have to prove they are the same one's.I wish I had the pics with me but it will have to wait till the morning.

 

[bassthumpersf]

 

[Bflat]

her are two pics not good one's the cabs really need to be removed from the basement and cleaned up

 

[Bflat]

one more pic for now

I've got some more somewhere but the 2 cabs I have are the two on the right side, with the speakers changed, the JBL's were gone by the time I found them. I've got other pics with the fender 400ps on stage with 3 of these cabinets.

 

[Michedelic]

I'll throw this into the mix...
http://www.blackstrat.net/Allman-Audubon/Allman-Audubon.htm
The striped grill cloth cabs are indeed Sunn 'Orion' boxes; as Edbass stated the full rig was solid state with the power amp section in the speaker cab, and the 'head' merely a preamp. The Who were furnished with some briefly on a '68 US tour....

but the model was a miserable failure, the power amps kept blowing up. I'm going to speculate that when these rigs were returned to the factory, the power sections were pulled from the speaker cabinets, and those cabs were sold off cheaply. In the pix contained in the Allmans' gig link, you can see that the ABB used them for PA,(with added high frequency horns)in tandem with some Kustom columns, as well as musical instrument cabs, there's so many that they must have gotten a bulk deal. There is a 120 watt Sunn guitar head mixed among the Marshalls behind Gregg and Duane(there's no account of what it was used for, as far as I have found), but in the third pic down(shot from behind Gregg, and across the band's backline)you can see, over by Berry's spot, a pile of three Fender Showman heads.

 

[Bflat]

One thing that gives them away is there is a 45 degree angle cut in the bottom sides where it joins the bottom board where the wheels were attached. also there are two handles on only one side just loike the sunn cabs.

 

[Muziekschuur]

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You can now buy a bisonic pickup and make your Jazz a Tractor. The pickup now is 99 dollar at the Guild shop.

 

[ahc]

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You can now buy a bisonic pickup and make your Jazz a Tractor. The pickup now is 99 dollar at the Guild shop.

And Curtis Novak makes what is supposed to be a faithful reproduction of the Bisonic/Darkstar:

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[Muziekschuur]

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[kartiste]

Towards the tail end he was using the Kustom Kasino combo 2x15's that had add on powered cabs. If you find some photos of the band live look for charcoal gray and black vertically striped cabs along the backline. FIrst time I saw them he was using Marshalls, second time the Fender PS 300/400?, and the last time it was a combination of Sunn and Kustom Kasinos. Yes, Kustom as in manufactured in Chanute KS, home of the tuck and roll naugahydes.

Old post, new reply. Here's a couple of ratty pictures from a show in June (I think) of 1971 at Calhoun Community College, Decatur, Alabama. I see a vertically-striped cab back there.