George Harrison's Amplifiers

This Leslie speaker designed for guitars was used by Harrison on "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road". You can hear it on the guitar solo for the single version of "Let It Be" and several songs in the "Abbey Road Medley".

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In picture 3 of the slideshow you can see George standing in front of four silverface Champs during Bob Dylan's set at the Concert for Bangladesh. The fact that these are Champs is backed up by the top comment on this youtube video demoing a Silverface Champ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXQKAE8Tbc].

To quote Youtube user JJ Slyde "George Harrison used that amp x 4 for the concert for Bangladesh. For the two weeks prior to concert, I set them up at the rehearsal warehouse in NYC. My sister ran publicity for Apple at the time. 4 silver face champ amps hooked together."

Admittedly it's difficult to verify the validity of this story, but it's the first I've heard mention of George using this particular amp and the photo does corroborate the story.

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In this photograph you can see George Harrison using a vintage Vox AC 30 which he used throughout most of his career with The Beatles.

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In this photo from Abbey Road studios you can clearly see George Harrison's Vox Conqueror solid state amp and cabinet that he used extensively for its built-in fuzz effect starting with Sgt Pepper. In the background you can see John Lennon plugged into one of the 2 Dual Showman's given to the band by Fender and not George's Vox. Though gear was fluid with th Beatles, George wound up with Paul's blonde Bassman after the band broke up (it was sued for guitar more than for Paul's bass) and the Beatles constantly swapped amps and guitars in the studio.

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In this photo you can see George sitting in front of a Blonde Bassman amplifier (according to Andy Babiuk, a circa 1961 to 1963 6G6B model), holding the famous "Rocky" strat. This amplifier originally belonged to Paul but was used increasingly by George in the studio throughout the 60s. When the Beatles broke up George wound up with the amp and to the best of my knowledge it currently belongs to his son, Dahni Harrison. You can see it behind Dahni Harrison in the recent "Concert for George."

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In this photo, George can be seen playing through a Gibson GA-40 Amplifier at the Cavern Club

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George Harrison used the Fender '59 Bassman LTD amplifier during the Japan tour with Eric Clapton in 1991, as documented on Bekkoame.

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In this image the vox super beatles amp can clearly be seen behind Harrison's back.

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I'm not sure if there are any quotes from him about the Vox UL730 amplifier which was one of the Vox Hybrid amplifiers made in England of the mid sixties, which George used starting sometime during the Rubber soul album, through Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper. Later the amp was auctioned off by Bonham's auction house where it fetched a pretty sum!!! here is a link to the info

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19037/lot/373/

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The first amp of George after joining the Beatles (@2:54)

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Harrison, Lennon and McCartney all used Vox Super Beatle heands & cabs during their 64, 65 & 66 concerts which is well documented.

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"Beatles / everything in the studio / Let It Be (film) / 1969 / George keeps the Virbratone on chorus the whole time"

Also in the movie "Get Back" ("Let it be"), we can see that their studio is equipped with a Fender Vibratone.

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According to an article by Solo Beatles Studios titled "Instruments Of Ascot Sound Studios," George Harrison is documented as using a Fender Vibro-Champ amplifier during the recording sessions for John Lennon's "Imagine."

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This is a community-built gear list for George Harrison.

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