1960s Vox Rory was a huge fan of the Vox AC30 amplifier. He started using one when he went 'professional' in 1963 with the Fontana Showband.“When I joined the showband, after a few months I got a Strat...and borrowed a Vox AC30 from the bass player in the band.” "They are the most reliable amp … really, very... Read More AC30 Top Boost 1954 Fender Rory started using this Fender Bassman from 1973 having previously used Vox AC30's and a Stramp Power Baby. “It’s a Fender Bassman with four ten inch speakers as opposed to two twelve inch ones. Buddy Holly had one.” September 1974 http://www.roryon.com/mw339.html  Rory next to his Fender Bassman in Paris 1975 photo by Mick Rock"Well,... Read More Bassman 1960 Fender Rory bought this Fender Concert in 1977. "Recently I got a Fender Concert, which is an old brown one, from around 1959, with four 10” speakers. I use a Hawk booster through that just to roughen it up a bit, or if it's a quiet number I plug straight in and keep the guitar clean sounding."... Read More Concert 1956 Fender "I've always used an AC 30, for twelve, fifteen years. But right now I'm using a Fender Twin, a 1955 model I got in the States: it's the one Holly and Cochran used to have, it's really good. It means a slight change from the Vox...the Fender is a little on the clean side: it... Read More Twin 1970s Marshall "I went over to two 50 watt Marshall's which is what I have at the moment- two combos. Occasionally I go back to a Vox and a Marshall, but they tend to put each other out of phase which is a problem. I like the Marshall's, but I use a graphic equaliser to round them... Read More 2104 50W 2x12 Combo 1950s Fender Rory would use this little Fender Tweed amp in the studio, most notable when he was invited to jam with The Rolling Stones in Rotterdam in 1975 after Mick Taylor left the band. Rory travelled light, taking just his 1961 Fender Stratocaster and this amp. Read More Champ Oberheim Rory picked up this little Oberheim amp (serial no. 003) in the late 1970's / early 1980's and would use it primarily, on tour, in the dressing room when warming up before a show. The Gallagher Estate auctioned the amp in 2014 to raise funds for the Ballycotton  https://afloat.ie/safety/lifeboats/item/25190-rory-gallaghers-family-donate-guitar--amp-to-raise-funds-for-ballycotton-rnli"It's a little product I did at... Read More Studio Amp Ampeg "He now has an Ampeg VT 40 which he links up with a VT 22. He finds that the Ampegs give him the mid-range response he's looking for, which isn't the case with, say, the Ritzy, but wallet-piercing Music Man units. On top of that, Rory has a treble and bass booster made by a... Read More VT-40 1970s Ampeg The Ampeg GU-12 was apparently the amp used by Keith Richards on the Rolling Stones 'Exile On Main Street' album. No doubt that would've encouraged Rory to buy one as Keith was one of his favourite guitar players."I like Keith Richard’s playing a lot, he’s got such a nasty, but nice technique." February 1985  http://www.roryon.com/guit231.htm Read More GU-12 1978 Marshall "At the moment, though, I'm still using my Vox AC30 with a Vox 50-watt combo as my third amp. My second amp is a 4 x 12 Marshall speaker cabinet with a converted 100-watt bass amp." November 1998  http://www.roryon.com/power.html

Rory at Circus Krone in Munich 1987 with the above amplifier lineup (Vox... Read More JMP Super Bass & 4x12 Speaker Cab 1960s Magnatone Rory would use this Magnatone amplifier in the studio and at rehearals.

"I have an old Magnatone, which went out through Sears, Roebuck in the States." March 1978 http://www.roryon.com/GP78.html

Rory using the Magnatone at rehearsals in Cork, Ireland before the Macroom Music Festival in 1978 Read More MP3 1960 Magnatone Rory would use this Magnatone in the studio.

"I have an old Magnatone, which went out through Sears, Roebuck in the States" March 1978  http://www.roryon.com/GP78.html Read More 190 Professional 1960s Panaramic The Panaramic was one of the many re-branded offerings of the Magnatone company, and the 1210 differs from the highly sought-after Magnatone 213 Troubadour in name and  the hip 1960s aesthetics versus the Magnatone's 'brown box' look.  Rory photographed with this Panaramic amp in Guitarist Magazine, 1987. Read More 1210 1981 Roland Rory would use this Roland Cube in the studio and sometimes live.

"I don't go for Solid State amps, with the exception of the Roland Cube which is good, and I have one of those which I'm just messing around with at the moment. They've developed the transistor system now - this FET system and I'm... Read More Cube Late 1960s Vox The Vox Supreme amp pictured with Rory on the back of his Fresh Evidence album (top left). Read More Supreme & Speaker Cab 1976 Fender "Do you feel that the old Fender amps are better than the newer Fenders?
They seem to warm up sooner. They wouldn't have the wide tonal range that the new Fenders have —particularly the new Fender Super Twin which has a graphic equalizer, a master volume control, overdrive, and all that—but I probably have some... Read More Super Twin 1958 Fender Rory had two Fender Bassman heads in his collection. Read More Bassman Amplifier 1974 Vox The B2 Escort was designed to look like a scaled down AC-30 amp. As originally introduced in 1974, the B2 Escort was a battery powered amplifier powered by a pair of UK standard PP9 cells. This amplifier became popular with busker musicians. Aside from the AC-30, no other amplifier model lasted longer in the Vox line than... Read More Escort Dallas Rangemaster From the Taste era till the mid 1970s Rory used a Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster with his Vox AC30 and Fender Tweed amps.

Rory his 1961 Stratocaster through a Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster plugged into a Vox AC30 at the Musikhalle in Hamburg, Germany 1971. Photo by Heinrich Klaffs

"I found that when... Read More Treble Booster 1970s Boss "About the first one I got was the Boss BD-1 Driver, which I still use. It’s a big green box (rather like the old Boss CE-1) with three settings: Distortion, Fuzz, and a third which is almost straight -a plain graphic and overall volume boost, which is the setting best suited to me.... Read More DB-5 1960s Ampeg In 1961, Ampeg became the first company to incorporate reverberation / reverb in an amplifier with its Reverberocket, which preceded Fender's Vibroverb amp by nearly two years. Read More Reverberocket R-12R 1960s Fender Read More Vibrolux 1970s Colorsound The Colorsound Mighty Atom was a 5-watt mini amplifier designed and made by Sola Sound during the 1970s. Read More Mighty Atom 1970s Vox The V100 was an all tube amplifier for guitar or bass introduced by Vox in 1970. A print ad published in a guitar magazine and seen at left heralded the V100 as the "successor to the AC-100."http://www.voxshowroom.com/uk/amp/v100.html Read More V100 Amp Hohner Rory was a very keen harmonica player which he'd play on record and live.Here's Rory playing harmonica on All Around Man in 1976 on BBC's the Old Grey Whistle Testhttps://youtu.be/3jrUKo3yZ_8?t=324 Read More Harmonicas 1961 Vox Initially introduced in 1959 with a "TV front" cabinet, the AC-10 bridged the gap between the student grade AC-4 and the professional level AC-15. The AC-10 was first available as a 1x10" combo. From 1961 through 1963, the AC-10 had a "thin edge" cabinet covered in fawn vinyl (like Rory's one) a hinged handle, brass... Read More AC10 Various While Rory was known for being a guitar player who shunned onstage effects, over the years he amassed a large collection (several hundred) of effects and pedals. He would buy them to try out at home and in the studio. From the early 1980's Rory began to use a few select pedals live."I don't have... Read More Effects / Pedals