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Post subject: Maestro playing silverface Fender drip edge amps
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:14 pm
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Came across this awesome video from 1970 ...

Looks like Maestro loved the amps as well.

Anyone with more info on this and his other Fender amp rigs? :mrgreen:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6meMBtTgKQ


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Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:27 pm
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The Tele-necked Strat is also noteworthy......

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Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:02 pm
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" Video synched in is from 1969 Newport Jazz Festival"

Interesting.

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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 5:34 am
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Jimmi Hendrix’s Amps:

Jimi experimented with many amps in his time, but he usually used Marshalls. From ’65 through ’66 though, Hendrix’s was using a Fender Twin Reverb, and in ’67 Hendrix signed a contract with Sunn who supplied him with whatever he needed.
- Sunn Coliseum 100W

Hendrix used the Coliseum head with 100-F cabinets loaded with one JBL D-130 in the bottom, a JBL model L-E 100-S driver horn on the top.

For the Experience tour that began in 1968, Hendrix used a Fender Dual Showman, a couple of Marshall and Sunn amps, but he soon got tired of Sunn and ended their contract. From then on he started using Marshalls almost exclusively. He liked to play with all the settings nearly on max, so he often had to replace amps due to high stress.
- 1967-1969 Marshall 1959 Super Leads

Some say Hendrix used nearly hundred Marshall amps prior to his death. He usually paired three 100w Marshall heads together with six cabinets underneath.

Marshall made Signature Series hand-wired Super 100JH amp, which is based upon one of the amps that belonged to Jimi. :mrgreen: :lol:


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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:40 pm
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.. and all about his guitars & effects.

http://www.groundguitar.com/jimi-hendrix-gear/

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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:20 pm
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Does anyone else chuckle when four decades later here we are are still talking about what gear Hendrix used?

Point 1. Even with the exact same gear, nobody played like him before or since. They still would sound like themselves, not Hendrix.

Point 2. Funny nobody ever talks about what paintbrushes Picasso used or who supplied his canvas, yet whatever gear Hendrix used appears somehow mystical and perhaps even endowed with extra mojo. It wasn't and it isn't. It was just gear.

Point 3. With totally different gear he still would have played and sounded like Jimi Hendrix and still be just as renowned.

Point 4. What gear Hendrix used is important when concerned with historical accuracy such as doing a bio-pic. Speaking of which, that bio-pic does need to be done and in my opinion it should have already been done a long time ago. Andre Benjamin (aka Andre 3000 nee Dre from OutKast) keeps saying he's going to play Hendrix in a bio-pic with the Hughes brothers producing/directing. He's been talking about that for what seems like 9 or 10 years. If they don't get in gear someone else will move. If they have an option from his estate it likely is not an open ended option. Hard to believe with all the junk coming out of Hollywood nobody can pull a sure fire winner together in nearly a decade of talking about doing it. Of course part of the problem financing it might be that everyone knows already how it ends. However this was no problem for "Titanic."


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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 8:51 pm
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Hollywood's too busy getting all of its ducks in a row for the "The Madonna Story", allegedly to star Brittney Spears.

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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 9:00 pm
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Hollywood's too busy getting all of its ducks in a row for the "The Madonna Story", allegedly to star Brittney Spears.

:lol:

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Shouldn't Brittney be concerned with getting typecast? :P

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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 9:03 pm
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If Jimi Hendrix were alive to day.

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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 9:34 pm
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brotherdave wrote:
Does anyone else chuckle when four decades later here we are are still talking about what gear Hendrix used?

Point 1. Even with the exact same gear, nobody played like him before or since. They still would sound like themselves, not Hendrix.

Point 2. Funny nobody ever talks about what paintbrushes Picasso used or who supplied his canvas, yet whatever gear Hendrix used appears somehow mystical and perhaps even endowed with extra mojo. It wasn't and it isn't. It was just gear.

Point 3. With totally different gear he still would have played and sounded like Jimi Hendrix and still be just as renowned."

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The gear sometimes influences what a person does (I play different guitars differently Diego the "feel"), but a player is going to end up sounding like himself in the end, either way.

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Looks too young for a 71 year old, and not enough change.

In the same time frame, Eric Clapton has changed far more:

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