Considering the drivel British record labels were willing to release in the late ’50s, it’s no wonder the thrill-starved kids were going absolutely wild. There are numerous stories of young, soon-to-be-famous musicians following Eddie Cochran from town to town. Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, and other American rock and roll acts were revered there long after their popularity had begun to wane back home. was also responsible for accordion and piano pickups, the outboard Vibravox vibrato/tremolo box and a Vox volume pedal.Īs for the homegrown music scene at the time (pre-British Invasion), things were pretty dismal in England. refrigerators, Morphy-Richards spin dryers, Sunbeam Electric food mixers and Echo “…domestic and industrial lighting fittings, lamps, etc.” J.M.I. Other items included accordions, mouth organs, Jennings saxophones, Vibratone Hawaiian guitars, Hopf hollowbody basses, various microphones, gramophones, tape recorders, and of course, “Domestic Electrical Appliances” such as G.E.C. References will be noted.īesides the JMI-manufactured Univox keyboard, Jennings organs and Vox amplifiers, the company’s wholesale trade list also included the complete line of American-made Fender guitars, plus Japanese/Guyatone solidbodies (S.P.1 and 2) with the Vox logo, not to mention the “attractive Italian design” Rock-Oval six-string and Oval Basso. The back of the mailing envelope has the famous triple-trapezoid JMI logo, with “Jennings Musical Industries Ltd., 115-119 Dartford Road, Dartford, Kent,” and “London Showrooms (open all day Sunday), 100 Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2.”Īnyone interested in the history of the company should read The Vox Story, A Complete History of the Legend, by David Peterson and Dick Denney (published by The Bold Strummer). ’59-’60 turned up recently, containing a number of most interesting items. But British Rock wasn’t always “Classic,” and the AC-30 didn’t start its life with EL84s and twin speakers.Ī promotional package from “The Jennings Organ Co. George and John of the Beatles, Keith, Brian, and Mick of the Rolling Stones, pre-Marshall Eric, Jeff, and Jimmy of the Yardbirds, et cetera British Rock as we know it came straight out of four EL84 power tubes and two Celestion G12 speakers. From the king-size extravaganza of Queen’s Brian May and his wall of sound, to the nightclub-filling single-amp assault of the A-Bones’ Bruce Bennett, the AC-30 has done it all. That the Vox AC-30 Twin is a great-sounding amplifier goes without saying, since it spent the past 40 years creating music for countless artists of varying stature and styles.
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