Bon Jovi Amp

Firstly, I'm not a fan!! I did however watch my brothers DVD and noticed Richie Sambora had 5 marshall stacks with 5 individual heads on them as he played live. So he had like 10 speakers for the volume of the massive gig, but why 5 head? As i paused it, only one was truned on, the rest werent even on stand by. It was the TSL model of head, which has 3 channels i think. Why would he have 5 of them? Is it to get different sounds because i cant see how you can vary the bass/tre/mid on that amp, theres only the 3 knobs for all the channels. Or maybe has has 5 heads on the amps for show? to make a nice wall of amps?

Later Axl

Well, he has many amps on stage simply to look cool. Usually they have one on stage they use, and one as a back up.(which means you only need 2 cabinets, not 10)

And he probably slaves the TSL, and the actual gear he uses to create his sounds with is backstage with the guitartech.

This is just an assumption though.

I agree with Trendkillah, the head was probaly lined out to a rack full of effects and to the PA, probaly more sound coming out of the monitors than the cabs (if the cabs were used at all)when people go to a concert, they want to see rock stars, and what self-respecting rock star ain't gonna have a bunch of Marshall stacks behind them, I think thats in the rock star handbook, page 4, para:3, Showmanship 101

Kewl, more info to slag Bon Jovi with.
What do you mean by "slaving the TSL"?

Originally posted by Axl_Rose

What do you mean by "slaving the TSL"?

Slaving an amp basically means only using the power-amp section of the amplifier, and bypassing the pre-amp section.

The way you do this, is, you plug your guitar into an external pre-amp, and you connect the output of that pre-amp to the "fx-return" of the fx-loop on the head.