Another intriguing Beatles edited mix…
Recording started towards the end of November 1966; probably with the new smaller vox amps, the 430 and 730, replacing the 7120s which had been used on Revolver. We don’t know the exact date the 30-watt amps arrived; we do know that Lennon took a 7120 head back to his home studio.
Good history here of the S.F.F. evolution/recording process –
More Revolver guitar tones here, this time from Taxman…
stripped-down version here, probably through the 7120, where you can hear the guitar and bass more clearly….possibly using the Gretsch pictured in Papeback sessions?
Signed print photos offered at (Gretsch guitar) auction, showing Lennon with guitar & new prototype 7120s;
From Reuters, here;
“..(Reuters) – A Gretsch guitar (more…)
This excellent blog gives Martin Craig’s eyewitness account of the event:
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Jimmy Page had used a 4120 as part of the Yardbirds in 1968 (more pics here); note the panel of a 4120 to the right, with another amp head on top –
Here he is in February 69, at ‘Thee Image” in Miami Beach Florida, described as ‘a big bowling alley‘ or ‘a big open ballroom floor with three stages, a meditation room, and black lights’. (more…)
There isn’t much information aound on production, time, location, or who was in control of the zoom on the camera. The Led Zeppelin site says this was most likely filmed in February 1969 in Miami (a follow up comment says “…This was likely filmed at Thee Image’ Club in Miami sometime around Feb 14th and 15th when they did two shows there”.
The video for Communication Breakdown shows the 4120 on top of some Rickenbacker cabinets. I was looking at the blur trying to make out if there was a lead running along and a missing control switch, when I remembered another photo showing a lead running in the same way, and a missing first switch (the volume of the Bass channel). The way the lead sits looks the same or very similar – and the other photo does seem to be from ‘Thee Image’. There is a line of marks on the wall behind, and a sloping join of some panels – here’s a comparison;
photo, apparently from Thee Image, missing a volume control on Bass channel
It seems this video was indeed shot at Thee Image then. It also shows that (more…)
Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), “Coeur De Boeuf, Sur Le Sable”, before Rome festival in 1968 (more…)
THE ZOMBIES
The beautiful open-backed cab (above), currently in the UK, was originally owned by Rod Argent of The Zombies. The amp pictured came from a different source. There were a few reported sightings of these gargantuan things on Vox Talks in the late ’90s, but most seemed to have a mythical air about them. Now, four others have come to light, two with closed backs, two with open.
LOS BRAVOS – Organ
Note the Supreme on the cab in the background, raised up on chocks to clear the side (more…)