Except for the V2 cab, which I cited earlier; a taller 4x12, often seen with the Faces and Stones..
Still, I can’t see why Taylor would use one of those in particular, even with refurbishments.
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What Ampeg cabinet is John Taylor using on Austin City Limits?
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Still, I can’t see why Taylor would use one of those in particular, even with refurbishments.
John Taylor is 6'1" an 810 is 48" high and a 610 is 40" high. I'm 5'8", so I'm out for doing a comparison against the earlier screenshot. Started comparing leg to height ratios, but I'm tired. I still think it's an 810, but my caring is waning. Heh. Catch y'all tomorrow.
Actually...Tennessee Whiskey was written in 1981...so it's a rip-off of I'd Rather Go Blind, which was written in 1967 by Ellington Jordan and recorded by Etta James.
Oh, and it's an Ampeg 610!
That was sarcastic commentary; there’s been endless discussion here about that. My take on it is that it was lame for Stapleton to superimpose the lyrics of a song that was done twice otherwise, a perfectly fine but standard kind of country tune, onto an R&B/soul classic that wasn’t even structured similarly, and then not give credit, and act like nothing was wrong.
But that's not what happened, which is why your commentary (sarcastic or otherwise) is incorrect.
Stapleton covered a country song by David Allen Coe from 1981 (written by Dean Dillon and Linda Hargrove).
I'd Rather go blind was written 14 years earlier by Ellington Jordan and Etta James. Covered by too many to count.
Completely different songs. Alas, people without ears think they are the same song, but they are not. Nothing frustrates a singer more than trying to sing I'd Rather Go Blind with a band that is playing Tennessee Whiskey. It totally sucks.
Argh, that’s what I was poking fun at, using absurdity, with a side of irony.
I pointed out that the original tune, not only done by Coe, but also George Jones(hence my comment “done twice already”)was an entirely different song, musically. Stapleton grafted just the lyrics onto the James song, for whatever random reason at a sound check, and Dillon/Hargrove get all the credit, plus Stapleton’s uninformed following thinks he’s all that and a bag of chips. And I’m sure they have no idea or couldn’t care less who Etta was. They probably think “At Last” is a Beyonce original.
When I said side handles I was referring to the handles on the side of the cab, not the back.
Here’s a shot from behind, you can see a handle:
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A 610HLF and GK rb1001 head was my last gigging amp. This photo brings back a bunch of memories.
How is it clearly a 610? Simon Willescroft in the third picture is about 6' tall, in other pictures he's about the same height as John Taylor, 6' 1 or 2". Hold a tape measure up to yourself at 40" for a 610 and 48" for an 810. It looks shorter than a typical 810 because we're used to seeing a SVT head on top, but I'm having a difficult time calling that a 610.
Right, but what does that have to do with me citing the existence of a taller Ampeg 4x12(that many may not know of)by using The Faces video as an example? I was merely suggesting the possibility, however unlikely, that Taylor might have had one of those cabs, as they resemble, from a distance, a modern 6x10. And several replies at that point were adamant that it wasn’t a 6x10.
