STUDIO '75

BSM designed a new private stock Booster just for the favorite taste of the company's mastermind, Bernd Meiser. It was intended in the first place to emulate the sound of the 1975 studio recording "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow", second to achieve Ritchie's early Rainbow live sound that can be heard on the nov. '75 bootlegs, e.g. Bacon Theater, NYC. Furthermore the unit was designed to get this sound from any stock "Bright" input found on classic Marshall amps. The story goes that Blackmore recorded the first songs on the road using different studios and without his personalized Marshall Major amps; just his guitar and the AIWA reel-to-reel with the studio's own Marshall amps. Ritchie used Purple's support act "Elf" (with Dio) as backing band and kept the recordings secretly away from his employing band.