Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: cozmik_cowboy on June 05, 2020, 09:51:31 PM
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In the immortal words of Dick Martin, I laugh on your mustache! HA!
Peter
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WOW!!!! Where did they ever find a person that small???!!!!!!
hehehehe
Bill, tgo
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:o
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Reminds me of the scene in Back to the Future with the guitar amp.
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Reminds me of the scene in Back to the Future with the guitar amp.
I was thinking about that too David... ;D
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Made me think of that scene in Spinal Tap!
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49977391078_059cbf9bb3_c.jpg)
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Hieronymoius, exactly! Excuse me for turning the thread but ... all those Spinal Tap bits were of course based on true stories. That particular one where the Stonehenge props were sketched with " instead of ' was reportedly something that happened to Toto on one of their trips to Japan. Jeff Porcaro, who was also a very good graphic artist, had drawn out what they wanted to be the backdrop for the band - that powerful looking sword with ornamental flourishes, etc, etc... but he had marked the size in " instead of '. When they got to Japan and the backdrop was flown in, the entire illustration was about 6 feet wide.
Back on subject, I remember seeing some 30" (inch) EV speakers somewhere, I think they were built for movie theaters. Gotta wonder about the specs of these enormous drivers. 7-28hz range perhaps? Don't laugh, that's 3-octaves! Ha! But you'd need a "normal" subwoofer to cover the next couple octaves.
Jimmy J
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Hieronymoius, exactly! Excuse me for turning the thread but ... all those Spinal Tap bits were of course based on true stories. That particular one where the Stonehenge props were sketched with " instead of ' was reportedly something that happened to Toto on one of their trips to Japan. Jeff Porcaro, who was also a very good graphic artist, had drawn out what they wanted to be the backdrop for the band - that powerful looking sword with ornamental flourishes, etc, etc... but he had marked the size in " instead of '. When they got to Japan and the backdrop was flown in, the entire illustration was about 6 feet wide.
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Jimmy J
Glad I was able to squeeze a story out of you! I also heard that Black Sabbath on their Born Again tour with Ian Gillan had a Stonehenge stage set (there was an instrumental with that title on the album) but it was too BIG! Many of the audience couldn't see the band!
EDIT: Decided to do some research after I posted, there is info out there, here is an article that talks about it, noting that it's likely that they actually happened around the same time but were completely unrelated!
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/life_imitates_comedy_spinal_tap_uncannily_anticipated_black_sabbaths (https://dangerousminds.net/comments/life_imitates_comedy_spinal_tap_uncannily_anticipated_black_sabbaths)
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As regards that first picture in OP, I HOPE those are locking casters . . . . .
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Here's a helluva stack...
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Several years ago I attended an Alembic Gathering at the Bag End factory in Chicago. They had some bass speakers there that were, IIRC, about 23". As a guitar player, they scared me off!
And thanks, Harry and Jimmy. Any thread is inherently improved with a Spinal Tap reference. Turn it to 11!
Bill, tgo (who if he hadn't gone to law school might have been a haberdasher)
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse...Bill, guitar players have big speaker cabs too! :)
Harry, Jimmy, looks like they got the drawing scale right on these. :)
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Back on subject, I remember seeing some 30" (inch) EV speakers somewhere, I think they were built for movie theaters. Gotta wonder about the specs of these enormous drivers. 7-28hz range perhaps? Don't laugh, that's 3-octaves! Ha! But you'd need a "normal" subwoofer to cover the next couple octaves.
Jimmy J
Hey Jimmy J.... I Have Two of those MCA "Earthquake" subwoofers and am now using them in my home stereo! They are 18" Cerwin Vega drivers in a reverse K cabinet. The cabinet was 48" x 48" x 20" and tuned for an 8Hz Square Wave! Each sub was driven by a 360W Cerwin Vega Amp. They were purchased from the Admiral Theater in Seattle in the 80's and a friends band humped them around to gigs for awhile until they thought lugging the old Hammond & Leslie was easier on their backs!
I tired of looking at these 4' x 4' monsters in the living room (yes, no wife) and made 2' x 2' x 2' cubes with granite tops for damping. I am driving then with 360W monoblocks with a crossover at 28Hz. Biggest problem I've had with them are the plates rattling in the kitchen cabinets....but whew-wee when a movie has a jet landing onscreen!
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse...Bill, guitar players have big speaker cabs too! :)
That looks like it may be from the Rust Never Sleeps tour. I saw the Cow Palace show in San Francisco. I believe it was the late 70’s. As I recall, the Dead were doing a 4 or 5 night run and we took one of the nights off to check out Neil.
Bill, tgo
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse...Bill, guitar players have big speaker cabs too! :)
That looks like it may be from the Rust Never Sleeps tour. I saw the Cow Palace show in San Francisco. I believe it was the late 70’s. As I recall, the Dead were doing a 4 or 5 night run and we took one of the nights off to check out Neil.
Bill, tgo
I saw them at MSG in NY that tour in 1978. I saw them again a few years ago at the Boston Garden and they had the same stage set up...great show, no frills, just solid straight ahead Rock and Roll :)
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...oK, I’m still trying to figure out the quote thing :)
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...oK, I’m still trying to figure out the quote thing
Just make sure you respond after the [ / quote] thingy.
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Several years ago I attended an Alembic Gathering at the Bag End factory in Chicago. They had some bass speakers there that were, IIRC, about 23". As a guitar player, they scared me off!
And thanks, Harry and Jimmy. Any thread is inherently improved with a Spinal Tap reference. Turn it to 11!
Bill, tgo (who if he hadn't gone to law school might have been a haberdasher)
That was a 4 x 21” cabinet that Bag End designed. If memory serves me they found 21” to be the perfect size for maintaining a tight response.
I do remember bumping a low D and feeling it from my nose to my toes! Talk about going to my happy place. 😄
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...oK, I’m still trying to figure out the quote thing
Just make sure you respond after the [ / quote] thingy.
Thanks, Adriaan!