I got to watch the Greatful Dead guys set up once... from the security cat walk over head... most impressive... <heh> but that was yet another story...
73 vince ka1iic On Sunday 08 April 2007 15:50, John Lawson wrote: > At least they had tubes... > > > In my Music Repair days I built some special effects cabinets for a few > musicians - mostly bass players, and 80% of them Ampeg SVT, or Rock City > aficianados. > > I'd build a big cabinet, with space for 6 or 8 12" speakers. In the > cabinet would be a 250 volt power supply charging a few 1000 microfarads > of big beefy caps.... and some pyrotechnic squib holders. We'd buy the > cheapest junk speakers available, and prepare them by slitting the > surrounds and voice coil spider, then using a bit of scotch tape to hold > the cone in place. The cabinet would be finished in Tolex or Diamond Tuck > to match the rest of the Stack. > > Then, at a pre-determined moment, usually at the climax of the last set, > the Musician would step on a foot switch, discharging the capacitor bank > through all the speakers, blowing the (often burning) cones sometimes > clear out into the crowd, and setting off the fireworks squibs at the same > time.. > > > "DUUUUDE!!! He BLEW his AMP *UP*!!! It was AWWWWWSOME!! DUUUUDE!!!!" > > > I made about a dozen of those durring the stadium rock days... > > > > We now return you to your originally-scheduled AmRadio Newsgroup, > already in progress.... > > > Cheers > > John > KB6SCO > > Who is a lifelong keyboard player (with the exception of... [eww!] > accordions...) > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
