When I saw HP in '71 Greg used four 360/361 amps, two on either side of Jerry Shirley's drum riser, with three full Marshall stacks each on either side of the Acoustics for Steve and Peter! 
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Greg Ridley's Amp?
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About 20 years ago a friend of mine gave me an Ampeg SVT 810 bass cabinet that he rescued from a basement in New Jersey. It had been partially submerged in water and was in rough shape. The name Humble Pie was stenciled on the badly torn tolex. I ended up rehabbing the cabinet and still have it and use in a studio. It's refrigerator like size and weight make moving it a real chore. I do not know the cabinet's history or if it was in fact actually Humble Pie's or how it ended up in this New Jersey basement but I figured who would stencil the name of a band other than their own, and if you are trying to create a bogus history, why not stencil The Rolling Stones instead?
greg lived for a time around the corner from me in epping, essex ( the rest of the band also lived in the area) and i used to deliver his paper. he encouraged this spotty yoof to keep playing the bass. lovely bloke and a great bassist. i play their stuff all the time. always best LIVE.
If your after Gregs sound you also need to know he used tapewound strings.. much later he used flatwounds.. I was lucky enough to know him and play his bass many times.
Stevie.
Stevie.
Very cool! I'm not surprised to hear this, nor that he used the Acoustic 360/361 rig.
He was a huge influence on me, too. I played the grooves off of Rockin' the Fillmore.
Yeah he was effortless, I was best mates with his son, even got to jam with him in his cottage a few times. A great talent, and a very nice guy, sadly I was too young at the time to realise just how famous he'd been, nor how respected.. he always had time to show me a few new licks. a good guy as well as a legend.
They recently released all four shows from the Fillmore concerts, some more great Ridley grooves. Same songs, different takes.
Acoustic 360's ( 2 heads 4 cabs ) I saw them play a few times. Best picture I could find.
I saw them play a few times. Best picture I could find.
Never saw them live.. my loss.. I love vintage Acoustic...thus this post...
Acoustic 361 is correct nomenclature for that rig.
360 is pre-amp only, which plugs into 361pp [ power plus]cabinet, which is a 1x18 folded horn cab with power amp [ 260 watts rms conservative] in botom of speaker cab. You can connect up to (4) 361pp cabs into the the 361 pre-amp.
In those days there was either: little, poor or no bass reinforcement, thus the need. Now they are dinosaurs/ collectibles with an incredible tone.
I have witnessd a single cab 361 turned no more than half volume ..cruise right along with (2) guitar stacks..DIMED.
PS.. Marriot kept a home in Atlanta prior to his demise..a frequent club and jamming visitor in those days. Glenn Hughes lived here in his early D P days, too ..sighs...
Acoustic 361 is correct nomenclature for that rig.
360 is pre-amp only, which plugs into 361pp [ power plus]cabinet, which is a 1x18 folded horn cab with power amp [ 260 watts rms conservative] in botom of speaker cab. You can connect up to (4) 361pp cabs into the the 361 pre-amp.
In those days there was either: little, poor or no bass reinforcement, thus the need. Now they are dinosaurs/ collectibles with an incredible tone.
I have witnessd a single cab 361 turned no more than half volume ..cruise right along with (2) guitar stacks..DIMED.
PS.. Marriot kept a home in Atlanta prior to his demise..a frequent club and jamming visitor in those days. Glenn Hughes lived here in his early D P days, too ..sighs...
Not only did he use the black tapewounds, but he also had foam stuffed down by the bridge to get an even more damped sound. BTW, I always loved that inlay job on his P-bass.
Saw them live a long time ago and he used the Acoustic (350?) head and 2 cabs. Major air movement in a small hockey arena.
Greg always used the old Acoustic black & blue folded baffle cabinets. Started with 1 on each side of the drum riser and wound up with 2 each side! Acoustic heads also. That's what was used on the Fillmore album. What a sound!
Excellent thread! I too came here seeking the formula for Greg's wonderful P bass sound. Unfortunately I won't be hunting down any 360/361 rigs at this time, though I can do the foam under 3 strings trick!
I resurrected HP into my playlist yesterday and since then have been thinking ‘man, it’d be so cool to hear from someone who knew him and jammed with him’. So, with that, thank you @steviesilvers.
wow, very cool! I never realized.... In the early nineties I moved away for school and then the military and wasn't back in the neighborhood until 2007.
