Vince Gill

Vince Gill is known for using the Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb amplifier, as seen in his performance at the 2010 Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival. He also regularly uses this amp during his Monday night shows with the Time Jumpers at 3rd and Lindsley, as documented in various YouTube videos.

I always use different amps. I have a wide selection of old amps, including a lot of old Fender tweed stuff. I have a ’59 Bassman; they have such a one-of-a-kind sound. I’d never played through one before, and I knew Eric would play through something like that. He would play in middle position on his Strat, and I would always say, “How does it sound like that?” I put my Strat in middle position and crank it up and it’s just a little bit clanky. A friend of mine, Danny Nader, who lives in Cincinnati, just gave me this Bassman. He said, “I never use it. Please take it and use it.” I plugged in and I said, “Oh, there it is.” It went ahead and crunched in all the right frequency places that were missing, and it’s an amazing sounding amp.

You can see in this video Vince has two Rivera R100 amps. He used them regularly for a long time.

Vince uses these mostly as studio amps (originally sources from "Vince Gill’s Touring Gear", an article from premierguitar.com).