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10" bass speakers?
« on: June 05, 2020, 09:51:31 PM »
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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2020, 01:21:23 AM »
WOW!!!!   Where did they ever find a person that small???!!!!!!

hehehehe

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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2020, 03:26:43 AM »
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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2020, 10:13:25 AM »
Reminds me of the scene in Back to the Future with the guitar amp.

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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2020, 11:20:55 AM »
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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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2020, 11:27:12 AM »
Made me think of that scene in Spinal Tap!


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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2020, 12:56:52 PM »
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.

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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2020, 01:20:30 PM »
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
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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2020, 03:21:35 PM »
As regards that first picture in OP, I HOPE those are locking casters . . . . .

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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2020, 03:37:28 PM »
 Here's a helluva stack...

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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2020, 04:04:07 PM »
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!

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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2020, 04:42:50 PM »
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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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2020, 05:46:15 PM »


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.

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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2020, 06:22:27 PM »
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.


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Re: 10" bass speakers?
« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2020, 06:59:28 PM »
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.


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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 :)