now *this* is a rig (Noel Redding content)

[RED J]

Blinded by G.A.S., no doubt. (note icon wearing anti-gas shades).

 

[Jim Nazium]

Cool pics and cool historic info.

On a different but related note, anyone have a pic of Rudy Sarzo's Peavy (I think) rig from about 1983? It had almost every size driver in it - 18s, 15s, 12s, 10s, 6s, and horn tweeters.

 

[chuck3]

Cool pics and cool historic info.

On a different but related note, anyone have a pic of Rudy Sarzo's Peavy (I think) rig from about 1983? It had almost every size driver in it - 18s, 15s, 12s, 10s, 6s, and horn tweeters.

hmm...no perfectly clear shots, but:

That's supposedly from the '83-84 tour. Not sure about this one:

 

[P. Aaron]

Noticeable absence of logos on all the cabs, but the heads all have theirs. Wonder why that is. Also, check out Billy's bass case right next to the amps. Did he only bring one bass to those gigs?

Probably due to trashing the speakers so often and all the change-outs?

 

[chuck3]

another shot of Noel's rig ...

 

[gdecamp]

I used to have that exact same rig as Noel's in the sixties .... well, except that I only had one head and one cab

Ditto but had 2 cabs for the 2000s and it was LOUD!

 

[Jawbone]

Have to pop this back up - killer rigs of the 60s and 70s. Gotta love 'em. Caljam II

 

[JimmyM]

Holy cow! Look at that PA! Nowadays they could do that gig with a quarter of those cabs.

 

[Roscoe East]

yep, one bass and no tuner!

i know, stage tuners were but a pipe dream, but supposedly neil young in his early days would set 5 conn strobe tuners on stage behind him, each set to one string on his guitar (one for the two Es, natch), so he could look back and quickly tune.

how many hendrix shows would have sounded far better had somebody hipped him to that trick?

I heard an old Hendrix bootleg concert years ago, and between tunes he's "tuning" his guitar...and it's just not happening, the guitar sounds conspicuously out-of-tune, he bangs out an E chord and it just sounds plain awful...and suddenly the band launches into a tune, and Holy Crap! his guitar sounds great!

I suppose it's possible that their was an edit in the bootleg, that someone removed another 20 minutes of Jimi futzing around trying to get his Strat in tune...but I always liked to believe that Jimi was the kind of guitarist who could just say "Huh, this guitar isn't in tune; okay, so I'll have to play it like this" and then he just squished his fingers around in such a way to force everything he played to be in tune.

 

[foderaman]

Those are the 200S Amps and the cab that went with it had D140 JBL,s. It was the first bass amp I bought from Bob Heil in Marissa IL when he owned Ye Olde Music Shoppe he then went on the work with The Who.

 

[Rocker949]

I heard an old Hendrix bootleg concert years ago, and between tunes he's "tuning" his guitar...and it's just not happening, the guitar sounds conspicuously out-of-tune, he bangs out an E chord and it just sounds plain awful...and suddenly the band launches into a tune, and Holy Crap! his guitar sounds great!

I suppose it's possible that their was an edit in the bootleg, that someone removed another 20 minutes of Jimi futzing around trying to get his Strat in tune...but I always liked to believe that Jimi was the kind of guitarist who could just say "Huh, this guitar isn't in tune; okay, so I'll have to play it like this" and then he just squished his fingers around in such a way to force everything he played to be in tune.

I think you may be on to something there.

 

[bassbully]

I wonder how well they could hear what was coming out of the stage monitors?

I wonder how they could hear at all? Good God!

 

[pfschim]

I wonder how they could hear at all? Good God!

eh? what ?

 

[klejst]

Very nice, loving the love in that photo repping for the 2x15's

 

[Basshappi]

IIRC that Cal Jam II photo is taken during Heart's performance, thay had those strange, white horn-like cabs.

 

[Roscoe East]

those strange, white horn-like cabs.

Those are Heil Sound, from Bob Heil's original company.

 

[SirMjac28]

Yes sir

 

[MetroBass]

Ann Wilson's voice always reminds me of a refined Janis. One of the best shows of the late 70's. I'm in the photo somewhere around the mixing tower.

Of course everyone remembers this:

 

[Vince Klortho]

I heard an old Hendrix bootleg concert years ago, and between tunes he's "tuning" his guitar...and it's just not happening, the guitar sounds conspicuously out-of-tune, he bangs out an E chord and it just sounds plain awful...and suddenly the band launches into a tune, and Holy Crap! his guitar sounds great!

His usual line was, "only cowboys stay in tune."

 

[D.M.N.]

Please, that first picture of Noel is child's play. THIS is a proper Sunn rig:

3x 2000s heads into 6x 2000s cabs.