great musician's audio systems

I have been curious if any of my fellow audiophiles might know what the audio systems of other great musicians were like. And if anyone knows of past musican's rigs (Pablo Casals, Jimi Hendrix, whatever)

I have photos of Led Zeppelin partying together after a concert. These were taken many year ago when I was heavily involved in rock and roll photography.

In one photo John Paul Jones, who is stoned out of his mind, is sitting on the edge of the bed taking apart a portable KLH player. He's grinning wildly while holding the rig high in the air by the little turntables tonearm.

He somehow managed to get it all back together because later that evening Robert Plant spun two 45 RPM singles for us. "Runaround Sue," by Dion and a song by a musician he claimed would one day be big star here in the USA.

That second song was "60 Years On" by Elton John.

OK, I don't know their reference system but KLH qualifies as their road system and KLH appear to be pretty darn rugged from what I witnessed and considering the circumstances, sounded great.

Albert --Very funny story--is it true that Madonna is wired with kubala??--rich

Madonna is long after my stint with rock and roll photography, sorry but I don't know the answer.

I did meet some of the very famous ones before her. Some of the best musicians in "rock and roll" are a joy to be around, and some are pricks, same as in real life :^).

Strangely enough one of the nicest people I met back stage was Peter Frampton, so it makes me laugh out loud when I see him in the Geico insurance commercial, posing as a "star" to speak for an ordinary insurance buyer.

Funny thing is, Glenn at Aesthetix Audio (Jim White's right hand man) turns out to be a roadie for rock groups. Somehow we got on this discussion the other day when I was asking about upgrade for my Aesthetix and we went on for an hour :^).

His stories were much better than mine because they involved the groupie girls that show up to meet the band. Now I wish I had learned to play guitar instead of a Nikon camera.

Tvad

Worked out OK for Arnie Freytag

I think he had a bigger lens than me.

Before he moved back to New York, Andrew Litton was part of my music group that meets every Tuesday.

Andrew listens to classical, Jazz and vocals on his Clearaudio turntable with Graham arm, Conrad Johnson ART preamp and phono, Wolcott monos, B&W speakers and Purist Audio wire.

He also plays master DAT tapes pulled off the board when making records for Delos or concerts with the Dallas Symphony.

I can't remember the model number of the B&W speakers but they are very large, probably 6 feet tall, an older model.

Audphile1, yes he's quite an addict when it comes to audio. I visited Andrew in Westchester area of New York months ago to help him with his system. He loves tubes but does not own a tester nor is he comfortable swapping stuff out.

His turntable was also out of adjustment from the trip from Texas to New York, so I made that right too. Andrew has quite a few obligations in Europe, he says his 911 Porsche (40th birthday present to himself) was paid for by European audiences while he was conductor for The Dallas Symphony.

He is a VERY nice person and blessed with a beautiful wife from the UK and two beautiful children. I miss him a great deal, he loved Jazz and female Jazz vocalists like Ella and we listened together whenever he wasn't obligated to some social event, which was most of the time it seems.

Frankly I think Dallas screwed up not giving him the raise he ask for, we have another conductor but I don't think he's as talented. It seems politics is always screwing up art.