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Give Matamp a look - British & frightening!

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Interesting (and not pleasant) view of the average (?) festival 'fan'. More of a worry to me is that this stuff has been going on now for 40+ years at Worthy Farm, and Eavis and company seem to shrug and walk.... (no, I don't know what they can/should do, but they seem somewhat complacent as they count the money).

Respect to Trojan Sound - using vinyl that close to that sort of sound pressure is an art form !

'Fluffers' used to be the groups of ladies that cleaned between the rails at underground stations, on the night shift after the power was off (obviously). ....so now you know....

Another vote for a second cabinet............

Could've been - we used to run a 'disco' at Henley Regatta, and we got murmurings from Marlow residents, about 4plus miles away, Glasto uses a lot more wattage.

Bang goes the neighbourhood...........

I used to have a resident situation with my sound system - picture a sub-basement (concrete) damp earth et al - we would set the operating tone(s) about 7pm. On a busy night the humidity would change (as well as the audience mass absorbing the levels) & I would vary the amp settings accordingly, otherwise the lot could sound awful.

I'm glad it wasn't just me who thought E.L.O. were bland - saw them on tv last year (Albert Hall?) and they were great, it didn't seem to translate to Glastonbury, somehow. Once the cameras stopped panning on the VIP pit, the rest of the crowd looked a bit still, and not sure of what they were doing there(?) - again, the Sunday afternoon slot is about 'classics', not over rated youngsters with soft voices and not much zap - their appeal still seems to be to the young ones (which is to be expected), who don't 'get' 'our' stuff - that's ok, I don't 'get' their stuff much either, it's a generational thing..............

Doing what (no I didn't ask that.........)?

I'm watching the Pyramid stage live on I Player, and wondering quite how it can take so long to do the changeovers? Seems to me that there's a lot of manpower involved here - I'm expecting that by now (this is 2016) everything this side of a drumkit should be (literally) on wheels? Please tell me if I'm wrong (don't bother pointing out 'this is a festival', please)

Thanks Paul, I'll check it out when I get in from work - Laurel Aitken had a good double album with the Skatalites (them again), It's a little different & worth a look (I'll ref it later) - a lot of the stuff came out when he was doing a load of skinhead gigs. :

Marley is widely regarded as 'white man reggae' - he was packaged and sold very much in the fashion of Rock musicians back then. No black kid in the UK would give it space (you had to be there). Reggae is a HUGE subject - cast around & see what you are comfortable with. The 'early' artist stuff is sometimes amazing - listen to Ken Boothe, Ernie Smith, Errol George, the Skatalites, Mighty Diamonds, U Roy/I Roy (different people) - Max Romeo, Hopetown Lewis...I ran and played reggae sound in the 60s & 70s - explore the progression, from calypso to ska, through Blue Beat to soca to rock steady to 'commercial' reggae (think Desmond Dekker, Bob & Marcia, Althea & Donna)- it's an interesting journey - I wish you well (and I haven't touched on heavy dub yet). Granted the early stuff with Peter Tosh is very good, but this has been almost lost along the way (I also have Marley with Bunny Wailer, somewhere) - I'm sure that the Skatalites were the Band of Choice in JA at one point....... vvvvvvv

I've been (not quite) watching this years offering - I liked Madness, but then, they are of 'my time' - turned off a lot of prog-rock noise and a fair number of females who seemed to think that 'talent' consists of stamping around the stage with spread legs (yawn) - Tina Turner did this stuff fifty years ago....anyone fancy coming in (maybe I'm just too old)?

Off we go again (!) - I've a couple of Dubsters (gen1, 2x15) - for their size and weight they do what I require fairly well. They do not have the same 'heft' as a couple of 18s in heavy thick ply cabs, but I didn't expect them to. I'd do the try-out offer & see what you think - also, you might like to email Alex & get a conversation going - he's intelligent, easy to talk to and has the knack of getting to the nub of this stuff........

Let us know how this goes, please.........

I wonder how many varieties of ormat there are? (scratches head and exits left, murmuring the opening bars of 'One Step Beyond')

Great for metal - the handles are good too......the stack (at present) comprises a couple of built to order series 3000 (circa 280 watts each) & one Matamp slave 300 (again 280+ - these are all using KT120s for output).....one OR100 circa 1970, and one Orange Custom shop 30/50 plus a bit of electronic trickery/crossover in a matching cab that Jeff kindly built while I watched (impressive). The 'green' slave was bought from Oli Foxen, I promised I'd leave the crosses on the front, it seems they are part of its history.... Now you may understand why I run two Dubsters!

Try FleaBay - there's a couple or three new ones on there with UK availability.

I've got several different makes (or badges....) I've yet to find any real difference between them, but I only use for general housing & car/van transport. I wouldn't trust my amps to a plastic box if I was looking for them to Go International - I'd want 'proper' plywood & metal kit...........

Are we having fun yet?

Try carpet underlay felt (not the synthetic 'Tredaire' type) - works a treat and can be fixed with drawing pins (!).

DPD were total sh1t until my major supplier (who is VERY major) decided to use them - suddenly we get stuff around midday with smiling 'happy' drivers - as opposed to the taciturn two days late rubbish that we suffered before......money talks & carriers don't give stuff about ordinary mortals.