A guitar cabinet used by Prince in the 1980s and early 1990s. It contained two 12” JBL speakers. Prince first used these cabinets on the 1999 tour and by the Purple Rain tour he had six in total. He paired these cabinets with his Mesa/Boogie Mark II amplifier heads.
He continued using these cabinets on stage and in the studio for the rest of the 1980s. Prince would often hide these speakers inside the staging structure and or would have the speakers facing him between his monitor wedges. They were last seen on the Diamond and Pearls tour.
A number of articles from the 1980s refer to Prince and his band using “JBL” speakers or cabinets. It is not known whether this refers to these cabinets or a different JBL–branded cabinet. There is photographic evidence from each tour showing the distinctive Bag End cabinets in use.
Dez Dickerson and Wendy Melvoin also used these cabinets.
