A lot of the early band folks that I knew (including me at one time) used Sears & Roebuck amps. I started playing in 1963. Note the one lone Ampeg amp.
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Calling all Geezers...
- Thread starter GBassNorth
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The two happiest days of my life were the day I bought my Voice of the Theatres and the day I sold them
You say 'Sunn enthusiast' like it's a bad thing....
I did some actual observing too...
The Who(JAE):
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass6768.html
1971 wasn't the late 70's
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass7174.html
NY, 1968, directly behind Bob Weir, under stacked Fender Showmans,
a pair of Sunn 200s cabs...
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Their PA wasn't a point of discussion...however...
oh look, three 2000s cabs stacked on their side stage right, next to T.C., as side fill monitors
http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/Fill East Shows.htm
those are in addition to the two 2000s cabs(without grills)behind Phil(which CAN be seen in other shots
of this 2/69 Fillmore East show).
CCR...what's that behind Stu?
http://www.fansshare.com/gallery/photos/10926366/creedence-clearwater-revival-live-creedence-live/
http://www.creedence-online.net/for...nce-clearwater-revival-1969-concert-1366.html
scroll down to the photo, stacked Sunn 2000s cabs(ok, so it's from 1969, and yes, he used Kustom PA heads for power, but I rest my case)
Jamerson? Ampeg B-15 in the studio, Kustoms live, but Jamerson didn't do that much live work.
Duck Dunn tended to use whatever was provided to him live(Ampeg B15's in the studio)in the '67-'69 timeperiod; spend a little time on Youtube and you'll see Fender Showman in Monterey, Marshall in Scandinavia, Vox in France, Kustom/Sunn(Stu Cook's rig, actually)as CCR's opening act in Oakland.
Plus what appears to be one of the tall Standel 2x15 bass combos on the cover of the Mar-keys/Booker T album, "Back To Back"...
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No it's not a bad thing!!! LOL
You know we may have observed everyone using what was available.
I saw Entwistle using John Paul Jones' 4 trapezoid 2x15 Rickenbacker cabs with Hiwatt heads. Some unknown band called Led Zepplin opened for the Who. (Tommy tour)
Yet every other time I saw Entwistle he was using 4 4x12 Hiwatt cabs three heads.
So no arguement from me. Too often folk talk out their a$$ here about stuff they weren't even born to see.
Speaking of which at Woodstock there were large trucks in the paddock one of which sported a huge Ampeg logo.
You know we may have observed everyone using what was available.
I saw Entwistle using John Paul Jones' 4 trapezoid 2x15 Rickenbacker cabs with Hiwatt heads. Some unknown band called Led Zepplin opened for the Who. (Tommy tour)
Yet every other time I saw Entwistle he was using 4 4x12 Hiwatt cabs three heads.
So no arguement from me. Too often folk talk out their a$$ here about stuff they weren't even born to see.
Speaking of which at Woodstock there were large trucks in the paddock one of which sported a huge Ampeg logo.
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Love the pic. Looks like the OLD days.
(Here is me from the future, different vibe- Link Removed)
I was there.... Acoustic 150B, two Altec 421 8Hs in Guild cabs (with "Cat Mother" stenciled on the back) a Fender '62 P Bass, Nag Chompa incense.
Oh Yeah... a Sleeveless Levi Jacket with a paisley panel sewn on the back drenched in Patchouli oil......
Wow, those Cat Mother cabs might have been on tour with Hendrix in the fall of 1968; 'Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys' were the opening act when I saw the JHE in early November. They were a fairly unremarkable N.Y. hippie band with an album that Hendrix produced. From what I remember(I was only 13 at the time)the bass player had a Hofner that he wore way up high. The guitarist had played banjo on Buffalo Springfield's "Bluebird". They had a silly single about getting back to old time rock'n'roll, right at the hight of psychedelia
i do indeed but not with a shudder. The Shure Vocal Master was OK. In one band we bought a Bell, IIRC, PA. New transistor amp that was light and performed well while we had it. A 50W tube Vortexion PA amp with two high impedance and two low impedance microphone channels. As no one in the area owned a low impedance microphone I removed the transformers from those low impedance channels to make four high impedance ones. I now had an input for my own microphone. I still have those transformers 45 years later!
That is a Silvertone Bass, a Silverton Electric Guitar and me playing a Gibson Acoustic through a Silvertone Bass amp. The short guy playing bass had well to do parents so he had a Ampeg Bass amp. The guitar and singer were going through a Silvertone 2x12 amp. Those were the days when low power amps and low volume were cool. We played a lot of parties and dances with that set up. Later that same year my folks bought me a Strat and a Super Reverb.
