If that was the loudest concert then you obviously never saw Blue Cheer live. Now That was LOUD!
I know of their reputation for having pioneered the use of 100-watt Marshall stacks turned to 11 (in fact I think Jimi got turned on to Marshalls by them****); and even have
OutsideInside and
New Improved on original vinyl.
Never got to see 'em live in the heydey myself, I was only 12 or 13 and my folks were quite protective about letting me journey from the suburbs of the south bay up to the big bad city where all the drugs and concerts were.
(I even missed out on seeing Yes open for Black Sabbath in '70 when they found out the driver was only a high school senior, lol!)
But I have it on trustworthy authority from somebody who was there in the day that Hot Tuna in '76 was even louder.
Saw 'em in the Del Rey theater in Santa Cruz.
It was not quite painful but ears were ringing afterward, a first time for me.
The Beck/ Vaughan show was in the Henry J Kaiser auditorium, think it was '87.
I've told the story before, don't know what the hell the sound engineers were thinking/doing but it was just mud and painful besides.
I don't think they EQ'd the room properly.
If at
all?:
Shoulda been a no-brainer at that point in time.
An insult to the artists.
Oh yeah:
yeah he has finnish family
Right. Father's parents were Finnish.
Father worked for US State Department which is how he got exposed to exotic places like Pakistan when he was a kid.
****Actually, having just gone to look for confirmation, I guess not. But I think I read it in some Blue Cheer write-up a few years back, as they did appear on the same bill at least a couple of times in '68.
But getting back to the idea of what gear for achieving a tone, I stumbled across this fascinating little thread while searching, with some inside dope on what Roger Mayer did to Jimi's amps:
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/i...uit-did-hendrix-use-most-often.1836092/page-3
Speaking of the psychedelic era, and Hendrix appearing on the same bill with Blue Cheer, what a hell of a show this must have been:
Andy Summers was a member of Soft Machine for that tour.
Don't forget Electric Flag was Bloomfield's baby.
And they were known to have messed around with "East/West" as a "get acquainted jam" when they were forming up.
And that's their horn section on "Pride of Man" on Quicksilver's first album, courtesy of having been produced (a
second time, to rescue the first job that they were unsatisfied with) by Electric Flag co-founder Nick Gravenites.
Jimi, admirer of musical excellence in all forms, must have been in ecstasy....