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Title: F-2B sighting
Post by: hieronymous on March 02, 2020, 09:40:41 PM

They've been showing the Paul McCartney Rockshow concert film on AXS TV lately, and I generally watch it if there's nothing else on. I noticed that on the Fender amp stack behind guitarist Jimmy McCulloch during the song Medicine Jar that there's an F-2B!

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49612451936_8d761be7cc_o.jpg)

Title: Re: F-2B sighting
Post by: pauldo on March 03, 2020, 06:28:43 AM

 8)

Title: Re: F-2B sighting
Post by: gtrguy on March 03, 2020, 11:10:17 AM

Vintage!

Title: Re: F-2B sighting
Post by: hieronymous on March 03, 2020, 08:53:54 PM

It's a great film. I got into The Beatles when I was in 7th grade in 1982 and had just moved to Japan. I had access to a lot of records for relatively cheap due to the exchange rate and my parents supported my obsession. I also tried to get into Paul McCartney and Wings - I got Venus & Mars (just by the cover I guess), and also Wings Over America, the crazy 3 record set. I didn't like it at the time, there was something lumbering about the performance and I didn't pick up on the cool tunes yet. I think that's why I enjoy the Rockshow concert film - I believe Rockshow is from the same tour that produced the Wings Over America album, but released four years later in 1980.

Rockshow is actually edited together from several separate concerts, sometimes within a single song! I noticed because on one tune Denny Lane is playing a Jazz Bass, and it turns into a P Bass mid-song! I had to back up to make sure I saw what I thought I saw. Paul McCartney's bass sound with the Ric is weird, sounds like really dead flats, I kind of like it, it's mixed pretty loud.

Anyway, you can imagine how excited I got when I saw some Alembic gear on the stage! I wonder what they were using it for? Overdrive the front end of the Fender amp it's sitting on?

Title: Re: F-2B sighting
Post by: darnellbass on March 22, 2020, 01:37:45 AM

Photo of Dave Hope of Kansas

Title: Re: F-2B sighting
Post by: sonicus on March 22, 2020, 03:02:39 PM

Alembic F-2B  with a Crown DC300 ?  I sold my Crown DC300A back in the early 1990s  .

Title: Re: F-2B sighting
Post by: hieronymous on March 23, 2020, 10:20:33 AM

Quote from: darnellbass on March 22, 2020, 01:37:45 AM

Photo of Dave Hope of Kansas

Cool pic! I bet that rig sounded monstrous!

Title: Re: F-2B sighting
Post by: sonicus on March 23, 2020, 10:49:19 AM

In my own experience after later replacing the the Crown DC300A with a Yamaha P2200 , the P2200 was much more impressive to my ears . :)  I actually still have it in use as a stationary playback amp  instead of being in a bass rig , in my live sound room .