Original Coliseum PA

[Conrad Sundholm]

At the factory the original Coliseum PA was known as the "Beach Boy" PA because they requested that we build them a custom PA system.  They were very unhappy with what was available at the time.  Mrbassman's description on an earlier post was very accurate.  The Beach Boy's were to take delivery of their system at the Lagoon Amusement Park in Salt Lake City Utah.  What a scramble to get it done.  On the afternoon of their performance it was finished.  I rushed to the airport with the system in the cargo hold of the plane, landed in salt lake about 1 hour before the scheduled start of the performance, Panic!  In all the desparation, I forgot to make arrangements for transportation of the system from the Salt Lake airport to the Lagoon park.  I finally found a delivery truck and arrived 1/2 hour late.  Scrambled to get it wired up and boy did it sound great.  They loved it.  I spent the evening with Dick Durea, son of the actor Dan Durea.  Dick was the personal manager of the Beach Boys and one of the nicest persons I've ever met.  I was 27 then.

Conrad

[mrbassman]

Dear Conrad,

It is an honor to meet you in cyberspace.  Thanks for the praise.  I owned two 200S amps and later owned the horn tops with the lenses so that's how I knew about them.  I first saw Sunn amps on my first trip to the Fillmore East in 1970 at the age of 16.  The opening band for the Grateful Dead was called Cold Blood and the bass player had two 2000S amps.  Then Lesh followed with four or five 200S cabs (he used Fender heads, guess he didn't like the 200S).  From that moment on, I had to have one.  I went to Rondo Music in Union NJ, a big Sunn dealer and bought (well my Mom did) my first of many Sunn products over the years, a 200S with the JBL D140F's.  Rondo had the PA there too. As has been said here before, the best sounding bass amps ever made! Thanks.