“You could see that we were tiring people out because we were playing so loudly,” said Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy about the innovation that permanently altered the amp game.
Prior to this amp update, guitarist Scott Gorham and fellow member of Thin Lizzy, Brian Robertson, played at such high volumes that the amp mics could not handle it.
“You could see that we were tiring people out because we were playing so loudly,” said Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy about the innovation that permanently altered the amp game.
Prior to this amp update, guitarist Scott Gorham and fellow member of Thin Lizzy, Brian Robertson, played at such high volumes that the amp mics could not handle it.
Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy has disclosed that their amplifiers lacked a master volume control when they recorded their commercial breakthrough album Jailbreak in 1976. To the detriment of both their amp microphones and hearing, Gorham and fellow Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson were unaware of just how loud they were playing.
“Both of them were Marshall 100s.” At that moment, they were missing the master volume. In an interview with Guitarist, Gorham says, “And the microphones really couldn’t take the heavy volumes, vibrating through the screens and all that.”
