![]() ![]() I was happy with my sound - but I doubt I would lug that big of rig today.įor example - yesterday my Boomer Surf Band I played a 2 hour gig on Pismo Beach with my Jazzmaster or DiPinto Galaxie IV feeding a pedal board with a genuine 1964 Fender Tube Reverb >Barber Tone Press compressor,> Boss LS-2 ( as a clean boost), Line 6 Echo Park, into a Roland Cube 80XL set on a Fender Blackface setting Cube-80XL Line out> Palmer PDI-09 > PA. the Line out of the ALtair feeds a modified Ampeg V4 100 watt head driving a 4 x 12 Ampeg V2 cab - this Ampeg head had essentially 2 footcontrolled relays - to enable 2 different master volumes - so I could boost the volume for solos - and not change my "tone" - the V4 preamp fed a Univox tape Echo, which fed an Ampeg VT40 60 watt 4x10 amp - which was strictly used as an echo return amp. I'm bouncing between a '61 Strat and a '73 Les Paul into a Orange Squeezer - occasional MXR Distortion +, Electric Mistress flanger into a 1966 Vox AC 30 head feeding a Altair Power Attenuator into a dummy load. Our PA was a pair of self powered Altec Lansing 15" bi-amp cabs, a Heil 10 channel mix board. The recording above was recorded from the balcony overlooking the dance floor by a 1977 Sony Boombox with internal stereo Mics - facing the stage - capturing exactly what the crowd heard. Prior to Rocket 88 I played in bands with Cliff Martinez, who later went on to play with Captain Beefheart, The Dickies, Red Hot Chile Peppers - Cliff currently resides in NYC - and composes film scores for Stephen Soderberg. Our drummer prior to Bobby was Jerry Hertig - who prior to joining our band, was in the same band as Adrian Belew when Frank Zappa discovered him performing in a St Louis Bar band. On this recording, our last drummer Ray Love, replaced Bobby Blotzer - who departed to join Ratt. I suppose the conflict within the band was style - Jeff and I wanted more New Orleans / Lowell George "Little Feat" grooves - while the rest of the band wanted to be a big hair band : Ratt / Poison. Since we spent most of our time out on the road, we became immune to the LA punk explosion that was happening around us. The band lasted about 3 years, eventually imploded when Bruce headed to Nashville for Christmas and never returned, despite 3 months of pre booked gigs awaiting in California. I called my buddy Jeff Jeff Naideau who became our singer/ keyboard player, and then we went thru stream of 4 drummers as we toured the southwest US 1977-1979 - performing 1 set of originals and 3 sets of covers, booked into the college bar circuit. Rocket 88 was a band I helped put together in LA in the late 70's with Bruce Bossert, a bass player who had recently moved to LA with a nearly finished album from his Nashville band "the Kick band" that broke up months earlier. QuoteI'd be interested to know what amp you were using back then and if you still have it? The first lighting system that I cobbled together, when I was in high school and playing kids parties, was some of those colored patio flood lights stuck inside round cardboard potato chip containers which served as the lighting hoods. I'd be interested to know what amp you were using back then and if you still have it? I hope you weren't still using that tube amp parted out from your home stereo system. That was part of the reason recording studios would employ costly low noise light dimming systems ![]() The problem was My Guitar rig would go into hyper hum mode Everytime the stage lights were being dimmed down because of excessive noise introduced on the AC Mians power line from the cheap stage light dimmers I can counter one of my most unpleasant memories was performing on bandstands and stages that employed old generation dimmer stage lighting systems with my touring rock band back in the 1970' s ![]()
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