Double Bass eddie gomez playing through a marshall stack?!

[shwashwa]

i love it!

i watched and did not see a mic for the bass anywhere. i think we're hearing a miced cabinet. and i happen to think it's one of the better amped tones i've heard him get.... darker than usual in a good way.
i personally use a tube amp all the time and love it, just not that big!

 

[CryingBass]

Very cool. And Eddie would sound good playing through a stack of eggs!

Good post OP.

 

[brianrost]

I've played through SVTs before. It can be a lot of fun.

 

[Martin Beer]

I've seen a few early to mid 70s filmed live performances where bassists are running into valve amplifiers that no-one would think to use for double bass today (Marshall, Orange, Fender), and to my ears the recorded sound is often more agreeable than a few years later when almost everyone ran straight into solid state amps with no outboard preamp. I guess it's an input impedance thing since most valve input stages are 1M ohms or higher, and older solid state amps were often lower than that.

 

[B String]

Just talking with my friend who’s done a lot of touring, and my own experience. You’re rarely in charge of your back line on the road. You just have to learn to use what you get. Sometimes it’s great, sometimes it sucks. But every once in a while you get surprised.

 

[brianrost]

My funniest backline experience was the festival gig where there was supposed to be a backline of amps and drums but there wasn't.

The guitarist and drummer in the band brought their own, I had decided to travel light. None of the other bassists on the bill were willing to let me borrow an amp. With only one monitor mix I didn't want to interfere with the vocals, so I played the entire set standing as close as I could to the back of the mains on my side of the outdoor stage and dealing with the echo bouncing off nearby buildings.