SRV Live at Montreaux '82

Sure looks like an MM on the drum riser behind him. The amp has a slant face front and with stop action on the DVD it sure likes like an MM badge in the upper left corner.

are you sure?
because that would make my day
i have never ever read about this though
SRV - the greatest ever

Well Carl, I'm glad I can make your day:

Cool, a late model MM amp (1980-84 Black Badge)!
Look at the control panel...it is either an RD or RP (it appears to have insert jacks!), a 212 or 115 model, judging by the width of the cabinet.
Steve

I'm gonna guess a 212, because of the height/width ratio (not visible on the picture but on the DVD)
P.S. Get the DVD live at Montreux 82 and 85! it's awesome.
P.P.S Can you imagine SRV getting BOOed at the '82 show??????

mark
i am speechless

Montreux is historically a jazz festival. If the audience was expecting Miles Davis, Spyro Gyra, Weather Report, Joe Pass, Pat Methany, Dave Brubeck or a Mike Stern, I can see why they booed him. He was really a fish out of water. But fortunately for Double Trouble there were a couple of audience members (including David Bowie) who where musically savy enough to recognize his talent and promote him. Having lived in Europe during that time period, I can state that many people who listened to jazz, jazz rock, or fusion, distained rock and traditional blues as a lesser form of music. More than likely they also saw the cowboy attire as being redneck, and unbecoming of a 'true' musician. But once he became famous, and 'approved' by mister avant-garde himself, David Bowie, they changed their outlook on the attire, and the music. Personally, being an American, and passionate about Rock&Roll and Blues of all types, I can only venerate him for what he is, a phenomenal guitarist and musician.
Paul

Ditto

I'm a pretty big stevie fan myself - in the video you can see to the left of the drum riser two amps with blankets on them miked up. I think I remember reading an interview where he said he brought to marshalls and that they only hit their sweet spot when they were loud, so he had to put blankets on them because it was a really echoy room designed for acoustic music.
I am curious - this gig was in switzerland and they came from the states for it -why bring the equipment over for one or two gigs? You would think it would be cheaper and less risky to rent. Maybe that was rented, or maybe that was like a "house amp" that all the bands shared?
I would have though switzerland to have different voltages in the electrical outlets too.. all the more reason to rent a nice music man for the gig... all the same though there are some amps on the stage pointed up with blankets on them.
The '85 show is a gas to see if for nothing else the amp setup. I see at least one super, two vibroverbs, a dumble with some huge cab, and a vibratone!!! all miked up enough amps for yah?
In the later years stevie favored LOUD and CLEAN. I hear they beefed all his speakers up to EV speakers that wouldn't break up. You would think some HD-130s would have made it in the rig eventually.

On a related note, I remember reading an interview with Brian Setzer visiting England with the Stray Cats and going into a recording studio there. His American amp (maybe Fender?) didn't sound right through a voltage transformer, so he played out of a Vox Royal Guardsman, which he said sounded great.