Rory Gallagher

According to this Music Radar article "Rory’s best known amplifier was a remnant from his days in Irish power trio Taste. The guitarist created his searing signature tone by driving the amp hard and using his guitar volume to control his sound. The reverse of the amp bears marks of decades on tour."

Mentioned in this March 1978 Guitar Player interview.

Then I got into a tweed Fender Bassman, and 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.

In a live performance of "Bad Penny" at Montreux in 1985, Rory Gallagher can be seen using a 1973 Marshall JMP 50 Watt Lead Tube Amp, as captured in a YouTube video by ΜΟΥΣΟΥΡΑ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑΣ.

In the video "Rory Gallagher - Moonchild Montreux 22nd July 1977," Rory Gallagher is seen using a Fender Bassman Combo Amp.

In the 1980 performance of "Shadow Play" at Volkshaus Zurich, Rory Gallagher can be seen using the Marshall JMP 2104 50W 2x12 Combo amplifier.

According to this Music Radar article, "With the addition of Lou Martin on keyboards to Rory’s band in 1973, the guitarist looked for an amp that would work better within the group’s fuller sound and began to favour Fender combos, such as this Fender Twin, which became a studio favourite. The amp has a very early serial number (0070), so Rory was cautious about taking it on the road." It also mentions that this amp was used on the albums Tattoo and Blueprint.

Mentioned (albeit erroneously as a "VT-44") in an interview in an August 1991 Guitar for the Practicing Musician interview with Vivian Campbell.

RORY: I used the Vox AC-30 for years and years, and I used to use a Rangemaster treble booster on it, which was great. I still have one at home. Very primitive, but I used to use the normal input in the Vox, which was not known as the brilliance input. It wouldn't be bright enough; therefore I used the Rangemaster. Then I went to a Fender Twin, a Tweed Twin, and I had a Deluxe which I bought for the studio. Then I had a Fender Bassman linked with the Twin for a long time. I used to use these boosters made by DiMarzio. They were treble boosters with kind of a graphic on them. Then I moved to Ampeg VT-22 linked with VT-44. Then I moved to Marshall 50 watt combo, and then I had two combos. Presently, in England. I was using a 50 watt Marshall with an AC-30 amp, and then an optional 4x12 Marshall which I use for big halls. This American tour, I'm using a Fender Twin Tweed, ‘55 model, with the Marshall 50 watt linked together, and a third one just for extra volume if needed.

In a live performance of "Shadow Play" at Montreux in 1979, Rory Gallagher can be seen using an Ampeg VT-22 amplifier, as shown in the YouTube video by Phil.

In the Dailymotion video titled "Rory Gallagher - Bullfrog Blues," filmed in 1980, Rory Gallagher can be seen using a Stramp Amp 2100A guitar amplifier head. This amplifier, not widely recognized, appears to resemble a plexi-style amp, similar to models from Laney or Simms-Watts from the 1970s.

In his Facebook official page, posted on10 july 2022, we can see Rory at studio playing with a Fender Vibrolux Amp. Nomis Studios, London, 11 july 1989. Photo by Odile Nöel.

According to Rory Gallagher's official website, he would use a Magnatone MP3 amplifier in the studio and at rehearsals.