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What vox is that>? Why is it there? backup?

Might be wrong but it looks like an AC-10 or AC-15. They used AC-15's until they were able to move up to AC-30s in '62. And judging by the photo it is certainly very early '60s.

That's a "TV front" AC-30. Very much in demand these days.

It was likely used by another band on the bill, as there's no record of the Beatles owning this style of amp. This pic (and the gig from whence it came) was discussed on the BGC the other day.

......Interesting......

Here is their AC30, brand new then, in '62

You can see the corner an AC-30 in the extreme left side of the photo.

Stan: I really like the old recording studio photos. This is, of course, a different amplifier from the one shown in the first photo.

So do I, Peter, and there is a major difference in the two. I tend to think the amp (which appears to be at their feet) is an AC 15 or 10, because of the badge being on the right side (not evident on the 30s)and the black tab badge across the center which I believe was also only on the early Jenning's models, pre 1960.

could it be that the amp was a loaner from a music store whilst something was being done to the other amps......remember, we didnt know that lennons 325 may or may not have the original back until recently

Stan, if I had seen your post before I submitted mine, I would have not been so adamant that it's an AC-30...in any case, it's a TV-front Vox and "you know that can't be bad!"

Alex, they were playing with other bands that night (12/15/62, Majestic Ballroom in Birkenhead, Merseyside, according to Larry Wassgren on the BGC thread). It was the Annual Poll Winner's show, and The Undertakers (Chris Huston's band) and Lee Curtis and the All-Stars were two of the other bands on the bill. It could well have been one of their amps, who knows? Almost certainly not a Beatles amp, if that matters.

No problem, Patrick. Yeah, it is a TV front on both, your pic, my pic! Would love to have either in the old creamed colored covering with the TV front. I suspect the floor amps were borrowed, the little 15's or 10's... might have been twin-15's since there were so few of the single 15's around.

The lead guitarist in my band plays his 68 345FG through a early 60s white Vox AC30... wow what a sound