Marc Bolans sound system
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Topic: Marc Bolans sound system
Posted By: more10
Subject: Marc Bolans sound system
Date Posted: 22 September 2020 at 8:20pm
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Trying to find a selling angle I googled Marc Bolans sound system.
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Posted By: madboffin
Date Posted: 23 September 2020 at 5:51pm
| A classic Kelsey Morris PA, presumably. Including their customised Quad 303's or 50E's. But I'm not sure about the quantities, there should be an even number of PA cabinets. |
Posted By: jazomir
Date Posted: 24 September 2020 at 10:59am
I know when I saw Marc with T-Rex at the Roundhouse back in the days he was deffo using HH amps. The specs of the PA system look pathetic when you consider what a band today would have on tour. Interesting fact about Marc - the reason he was in the mini when he died was because his manager had lent his Rolls Royce to Hawkwind who were on tour. ------------- For sidefills, can we have two enormous things of a type that might be venerated as Gods by the inhabitants of Easter Island, capable of reaching volumes that would make Beelzebub soil his pants. |
Posted By: GAZ.
Date Posted: 24 September 2020 at 3:57pm
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I believe he used to run HH ic100 amps ------------- 100% Earth Moving Bass |
Posted By: BJtheDJ
Date Posted: 24 September 2020 at 4:35pm
Better copy of the same image here:  Deffo Vamp amp together with the H|H amps ~ and Fender speaker boxes:  ------------- I started out in this business with nothing. I still have most of it left. |
Posted By: Robbo
Date Posted: 24 September 2020 at 4:58pm
| They are Fender Dual Showman 2x15" cabinets fitted with extended range JBL k130 drivers. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 24 September 2020 at 5:54pm
The moral there is,never lend your Rolls Royce to anybody! But yes,hit a tree in two and half tons of Rolls,the car would be fine, just the tree would fall down. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: more10
Date Posted: 24 September 2020 at 7:05pm
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It wasn't a tree that killed him. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/mystery-marc-bolan-s-death-solved-8142457.html" rel="nofollow - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/mystery-marc-bolan-s-death-solved-8142457.html |
Posted By: concept-10
Date Posted: 24 September 2020 at 7:14pm
God bless you Robbo, not only do you identify the cabs but also the drivers, you need to right that book bud  , As for Mark Bolan, he was a giant of the time, David Bowie wrote the track All the young dudes made famous by Mott the hoople, and the lyrics, "why do I need tv when Iv'e got T rex" Bowie thought Bolan was a genius, enough said. |
Posted By: doller
Date Posted: 11 May 2021 at 9:50am
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I lived in his house on stoke newinton common, Just a house really! |