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Thanks, but how did/could it change history?
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Thanks, but how did/could it change history?
That is could have been Taylor's amp, a customized, MKii with a 15" speaker.
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The search is over, I can stop carving Boogie amps out of my mashed potatoes.
I've never heard the show actually, just a few bits and pieces. Years ago I downloaded a bootleg of it, there may be better sources available now, or even then. But it wasn't anything I was interested in hearing, especially because Taylor was pretty much non-existent in the mix. And the rest of the band sounded like somebody was recording them on an answering machine from the payphone bank. What's the best source of this show?
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I emailed Mesa Boogie.
The reply was that, from the pic it's hard to tell. Given when the pic was taken, it may be a mkIIB. They were sorry they couldn't help more.
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I emailed Mesa Boogie.
The reply was that, from the pic it's hard to tell. Given when the pic was taken, it may be a mkIIB. They were sorry they couldn't help more.
It's a 1977 MKI.
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MingSubu
I emailed Mesa Boogie.
The reply was that, from the pic it's hard to tell. Given when the pic was taken, it may be a mkIIB. They were sorry they couldn't help more.
It's a 1977 MKI.
Mathijs
Nope. You're again wrong as usual. The 77 MK1 had 6 knobs. This one has 7 making it a mkIIB.
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MingSubu
I emailed Mesa Boogie.
The reply was that, from the pic it's hard to tell. Given when the pic was taken, it may be a mkIIB. They were sorry they couldn't help more.
It's a 1977 MKI.
Mathijs
Nope. You're again wrong as usual. The 77 MK1 had 6 knobs. This one has 7 making it a mkIIB.
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MingSubu
I emailed Mesa Boogie.
The reply was that, from the pic it's hard to tell. Given when the pic was taken, it may be a mkIIB. They were sorry they couldn't help more.
It's a 1977 MKI.
Mathijs
Nope. You're again wrong as usual. The 77 MK1 had 6 knobs. This one has 7 making it a mkIIB.
Nope. This is a February 1977 60/100 watt Mk1 with 7 knobs and 4 switches on the front. The added knob is for Presence, and the extra switch is the 60/100 watt switch. Speaker is a 15" Altec Lansing.
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MingSubu
I emailed Mesa Boogie.
The reply was that, from the pic it's hard to tell. Given when the pic was taken, it may be a mkIIB. They were sorry they couldn't help more.
It's a 1977 MKI.
Mathijs
Nope. You're again wrong as usual. The 77 MK1 had 6 knobs. This one has 7 making it a mkIIB.
Nope. This is a February 1977 60/100 watt Mk1 with 7 knobs and 4 switches on the front. The added knob is for Presence, and the extra switch is the 60/100 watt switch. Speaker is a 15" Altec Lansing.
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Nope. They never made one with 7 in 77. It wasn't till 78.
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MingSubu
I emailed Mesa Boogie.
The reply was that, from the pic it's hard to tell. Given when the pic was taken, it may be a mkIIB. They were sorry they couldn't help more.
It's a 1977 MKI.
Mathijs
Nope. You're again wrong as usual. The 77 MK1 had 6 knobs. This one has 7 making it a mkIIB.
Nope. This is a February 1977 60/100 watt Mk1 with 7 knobs and 4 switches on the front. The added knob is for Presence, and the extra switch is the 60/100 watt switch. Speaker is a 15" Altec Lansing.
Mathijs
Nope. They never made one with 7 in 77. It wasn't till 78.
You have no idea, now do you.....
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Maybe some new info turned up over the last years. In an earlier thread Mathijs stated that the Stones used a MKIIB on the 1981 tour.So it might be interesting to reveal the source about the picture showing us a MKI ?
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MingSubu
I emailed Mesa Boogie.
The reply was that, from the pic it's hard to tell. Given when the pic was taken, it may be a mkIIB. They were sorry they couldn't help more.
It's a 1977 MKI.
Mathijs
Nope. You're again wrong as usual. The 77 MK1 had 6 knobs. This one has 7 making it a mkIIB.
Nope. This is a February 1977 60/100 watt Mk1 with 7 knobs and 4 switches on the front. The added knob is for Presence, and the extra switch is the 60/100 watt switch. Speaker is a 15" Altec Lansing.
Mathijs
Nope. They never made one with 7 in 77. It wasn't till 78.
You have no idea, now do you.....
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Actually if you look it up. MHR is right.
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Maybe some new info turned up over the last years. In an earlier thread Mathijs stated that the Stones used a MKIIB on the 1981 tour.So it might be interesting to reveal the source about the picture showing us a MKI ?
That's the 160 watt Coloseum heads both Richards and Wood used for the 1981 and 1982 tour. Those are IIB's.
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DancelittleSister
You are correct, and Taylor using Wood's spare Boogie MKIIB Coloseum amp through 4*12 Boogie cab. I just wonder if the MKI or MKII combo on that picture was Taylor's amp from the Alvin Lee tour or another spare amp from the Stones.
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You are correct, and Taylor using Wood's spare Boogie MKIIB Coloseum amp through 4*12 Boogie cab. I just wonder if the MKI or MKII combo on that picture was Taylor's amp from the Alvin Lee tour or another spare amp from the Stones.
Looks to me like the speaker grill on Taylor's amp that he used with Alvin Lee was a bit different. There certainly were several options on those early Boogies, they were experimenting with many features so I doubt without more information that we will be able to nail it down any better than the people at Mesa Engineering did when they said the model was indeterminate from the picture.
Perhaps Mathijs can give us a bit of background for his assertion that it was a mkI. I was able to find one picture of a 7 knob, 4 switch Boogie that claims it is a mkI from 1978.
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You are correct, and Taylor using Wood's spare Boogie MKIIB Coloseum amp through 4*12 Boogie cab. I just wonder if the MKI or MKII combo on that picture was Taylor's amp from the Alvin Lee tour or another spare amp from the Stones.
Looks to me like the speaker grill on Taylor's amp that he used with Alvin Lee was a bit different. There certainly were several options on those early Boogies, they were experimenting with many features so I doubt without more information that we will be able to nail it down any better than the people at Mesa Engineering did when they said the model was indeterminate from the picture.
Perhaps Mathijs can give us a bit of background for his assertion that it was a mkI. I was able to find one picture of a 7 knob, 4 switch Boogie that claims it is a mkI from 1978.
To me both the picture posted with the Stones and Tayor's are not good enough to compare the grill, the resolution / and reflection of light coming from the mike standard could mislead us, lol, a James Bond thing. What's your claim the one you posted could be a MKI?
As far as that Stones picture is concerned it's nothing but a guessing game unless someone comes up with the source i.e book in which it is described precisely whether it's an MKI or MKII.
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Naturalust
Yes perhaps you are right but those blond woven grills were pretty stand out. The picture with Taylor appears to be that type of grill to me.
The picture I posted of the possible 1978 MKI with 7 knobs and 4 switches is just one I found using a Google image search which identified it as a MKI and it very well could be a MKIIA similar to the one below (notice this one has 8 knobs).
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Koen
Maybe another clue, on the picture on the first page, the amp is reflecting light on the lower left corner, possible one of those metal corner pieces? The pic above doesn't have those.