What did glover use for machine head??

Looks like he's using a couple of Marshall Super Bass 100's in this video, to me. Not sure what he would have used in the studio.

 

acoustic?

 

From the pictures I've seen of Purple in the studio for that period, I've only seen Marshall amps, and one photo of Roger sitting on a Vox AC30, though I rather doubt he recorded through that. It's possible he went direct as well.

 

With the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside...making our music there...

Reference to the Rolling Stones mobile recording unit, direct then?

 

"We ended up at the grand hotel
It was empty cold and bare"

"We had the Rolling Stones' mobile recording unit sitting outside in the snow, but to get there we had to run cable through two doors in the corridor into a room, through a bathroom and into another room, from which it went across a bed and out the veranda window, then ran along the balcony for about 100 feet and came back in through another bedroom window. It then went through that room's bathroom and into another corridor, then all the way down a marble staircase to the foyer reception area of the hotel, out the front door, across the courtyard and up the steps into the back of the mobile unit. I think that setup led to capturing some spontaneity, because once we got to the truck for a playback, even if we didn't think it was a perfect take, we'd go, 'Yeah, that's good enough.' Because we just couldn't stand going back again."
Ritchie Blackmore.

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Classic Albums - Deep Purple - Machine Head

 

I helped Pete Smith and another guy from Ripple strip the Helios console and anything else good out of that Truck before it went to Butcher Associates to be auctioned off at Power Rd Chiswick.
I kept one of the massive Niphan multicore plugs as a souvenir.
It's still here somewhere, I will have to look it out and take a picture, it's huge.

 

When I saw them touring to support that album they had a bunch of 200 watt Marshall's. Blackmore had 2 but I was close enough to see that only one was plugged in. The bass and keyboard amps looked identical except that Lord had horns in his cabs.

I've seen pics in the studio where Blackmore was playing through an AC30. I've heard isolated bass on Highway Star, by itself I thought it sounded like ass, but in the mix it sits perfectly.

 

Much as I like the bass tone on machine head it is the bone crunching tone on Made in Japan that I really admire

 

Yah, Made in Japan is one of the best recorded live albums of all time. When it came out, it became the standard that all our stereos were tested with.