zoo
an establishment that maintains a collection of wild animals, (No pun intended) typically in a certain place, for study, conservation, or display to the public.
What's the Zoo about? Well since I'll be sitting around waiting till next month (Aug 2014) (hopefully no longer) to receive my Fender 500
Rumble Bass Amp! And also I just got back my Line6 effects unit from where I had it for awhile and thought while I waited to hook this baby up to the Rumble, I am reacquainting myself with the unit and its vintage amps and cabs (effects etc).
So I decided that I wanted to see these beast (Amps) and cabs performed in their natural habitat, who played then, what music groups played them, what basses were played with them and how they sounded etc to make comparison to the real deal.
So for about the next (counting this one) 20 weeks, 1 per week we shall explore these beast, you might even learn a thing or two (I know I have!!)
So here is our first vintage beast performing in it's natural habitat and after the video will be some information on this vintage animal!! GROWL.....
The Acoustic 360 Bass Amp and cab
Santana*bassist*David Brown rocking a couple*360*stacks at Woodstock
The Acoustic 360, was used by
Larry Graham, John Paul Jones, and Jaco Pastorius. In the early 70’s Acoustic 360, featuring a separate
preamp “head,” plus a powered cabinet with a single 18-
inch speaker in a folded horn. The 360 with the built in
fuzz and tuner was the choice was John Paul Jones’ choice
for Led Zeppelin’s Low end—he can be seen playing thru
two in the film, The Song Remains the Same. But Jaco’s work
with Weather Report really showed us what a versatile amp
the 360 really was. When the band left him alone on stage
for his bass solo, he really wrenched everything he could
out of his gear which included two Acoustic 360’s, a wah
pedal, a rackmount “blue” MXR digital delay and his trusty
Jazz bass. Towards the end of his solo he would stomp on
the wah pedal, turn on the fuzz and do a great rendition of
the Star Spangled Banner. He got everything out of that amp, from mellow jazz to
speaker shredding feedback.
Led Zeppelin bass amp
http://www.led-zeppelin.org/studio-and-live-gear/964
If anyone is interested in the new Acoustic 360 bass amp you can check it out here!! Hey Elmo!! Check out the Neons on this one!!
https://www.facebook.com/AcousticBassUSA
http://archive.today/link:www.acousticbassusa.com
By the way, if anyone is interested and is wondering what a folded horn cab is etc, here is a couple of links on it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=a+po...m=122&ie=UTF-8
https://www.google.com/search?q=what...w=1024&bih=515
https://www.google.com/search?q=what...w=1024&bih=515
Until next week, Jam on!!
Added Artist Flea
Line6bassmanTR
2nd installment of The Amp Zoo is here - http://www.thunderrow.com/newthread....ostthread&f=31
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