experience whit vintage 'vip' owned hiwatt

[Pinus]

have you ever some hiwatt owned by a artist in the past? I'd like to share these stories i'm very lucky in this way, i've played a prototipe of cp103 made for the who and a dr504 used by gilmour on animals recordings also an ac30 of keith richards from the famous concert of blackpool and a plexi used by Page! There is a collector here that have a great collection, walls of hiwatt and plexi with two 4x12, guitar everywhere, it seem to be in paradise! any experience like that? i'd like to know great stories! Mr hiwatt, did you visited dave reeves home lab, or something? Will be great un know!

[ak-47]

Cool thread idea... Hope some interesting stories come out of the woodwork! Especially if they can be supported by some photos too!

A friend of mine was a stagehand at Woodstock and can be clearly seen in the film. Freaked me out when I saw it was really him because lots of people 'say they were there' if you know what I mean.. Not so many stories about gear but we all know 'who' was there back stage and the scene he has described to me was really something!

[Energy]

I already posted this in a separate thread but since it fits in here I show it again :



The picture above shows the amp how it looks right now, after I removed some black paint from the front.
It had a technical restoration too - new caps and new tubes - now it serves as my main bass amp in combination with a german custom made tube preamp:



I bought the amp from a german bass player who had it in use in his band for the past 35 years. The amp was originally owned by the Who. I presume it was part of the PA system, but it also could possibly have been used by Entwistle in his bass rig.
This is how it looked when i got it:

[Pinus]

Great! I know that also big tube PA System of tens of thousands Watts for their shows!

[Stu_R]

have you ever some hiwatt owned by a artist in the past?

At the risk of boring the guys senseless who saw this on Plexi; I've got this ................ for now!


from the top...........


......... and with a 4122 cab which was also his.........


........... a friend of mine from Slade's old touring days has what was Nod's back-up amp. It was a 1977 6 x EL34 version. It's predecessor having "blown up" beyond repair during a tour according to Dave Hill, their guitarist. Who also told me how they used cabs among each others back-line rather than wedge monitors to trip over on the stage. They also used huge two 8 x 12" sidefill cabs firing across the stage from the wings.
When an near identical 201 appeared on Ebay a few years ago, Mark was able to largely endorse my belief that it was one of Slade's too, due to the after market rear mods. This was confirmed when I showed Dave Hill pics of it & he recognised it as his. it's now owned by forum user "GodOfThunder" who posted on here about it.