Pics of 70's artists with JBLs

[DavidF]

yeah, not sure. Maybe they're up high probably because its a huge room. I presume they are there just for playback to the musicians in the studo

You will see many photos of times past where studios had playback monitors wall mounted. Many times they are are on dollies or have wheels mounted for as-needed applications. A good suppostion is that they tended to be high up when wall mounted to get them out of the way and also get them where they can direct over a large group of musicians.

As for these in Studio Two, you don't see them in older photos of the room. Nor the lights. So perhaps they were both installed for the various "live" from Abbey Roads and other concert productions. Funny that these vintage speakers (without the diffraction lenses) were hoisted up there. Maybe there are still dozens around in the old store rooms within the facility.

[fabrice11]

[Shaun M]

https://youtu.be/p7Y1cn2dAcE?t=3m37s
JBL Concert Series 4850's on the wall at 3:37?

[Goldjazz]

So this pic is supposed to be Robert plant at Electric Lady in 1973. Now I know Eddie Kramar at Electric Lady used L100's but I thought the L100 came out later than '73?

[Goldjazz]

So this pic is supposed to be Robert plant at Electric Lady in 1973. Now I know Eddie Kramar at Electric Lady used L100's but I thought the L100 came out later than '73?

Ok this one with Jimmy Page and Krammer says '75

[Mr. Widget]

The L100 pictured in the second photo where more of the speaker is visible is the original version that debuted in 1970.

Damn those guys look young!


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[Goldjazz]

1970, way earlier than I thought. Hendrix himself may have listened a pair there as i think died 1970. Yeah they look pretty young there and aged rapidly soon after...they sure lived hard.

The L100 pictured in the second photo where more of the speaker is visible is the original version that debuted in 1970.

Damn those guys look young!


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[Goldjazz]

ELO's drummer Bev Bevan (great name) with some 4320's

[svollmer]

ELO's drummer Bev Bevan (great name) with some 4320's

Egads; Roto Toms!

[SEAWOLF97]

,,, I thought the L100 came out later than '73?

When the marketing plans were prepared for the product's introduction, Irv Stern came up with the felicitous name of "The Century" to go with its L100 sales number. After its introduction at the 1970 summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, the L100 went on to become not only JBL's most successful product up to that time but, from all indications, the best-selling loudspeaker system of the decade.

http://www.audioheritage.org/html/profiles/jbl/l100.htm

Introduced at CES in 1970, the L-100 was built upon the strength of JBL’s highly successful 4310 studio monitors. Just like the auto-racing philosophy of selling on Monday what you ran on Sunday, the audio enthusiast of 1973 saw the L-100 as something to aspire to

http://www.tonepublications.com/old-...-loudspeakers/

[LowPhreak]

ELO's drummer Bev Bevan (great name) with some 4320's

At first glance I thought that was Jose “Chepito” Areas, timbale player of Santana.

[BMWCCA]

I thought the L100 came out later than '73?

I remember one of my closest friends in St. Louis getting his L100s well before our high-school graduation in 1971. That fall he moved to Virginia for college with them and still has them in his home in DC.

At the time I was only slightly unimpressed but probably because I was jammin' in my home home to a pair of C37 030s with a Mac C20 and Fisher SA1000. Good speakers. Lots of fun. Just preferred what I had. We all know the reasons for their evolution and their original "control" purpose. A great piece of history.

I question if they were the largest-selling speakers of the decade, though. I just remember seeing far more ARs, Advents, and KLHs back then.

[LowPhreak]

I question if they were the largest-selling speakers of the decade, though. I just remember seeing far more ARs, Advents, and KLHs back then.

I wondered the same, since none of my friends back East had JBL's in the 70's except one, who had (I think) 4311's and later a pair of L150s. I saw a lot of other stuff but not many JBLs then.

[Goldjazz]

Rear cover of his '82 album mystic miracle star.

[Goldjazz]

Two pics from '86 and '87 from his Air studios with 4435's in Monteserrat. Earlier pics with 4350's. Sadly the studio was destroyed by a hurricane in '89. The police at Air studios around '82