Editing Vox (company) (section)

===Other amplifiers===
[[Image:VOX AC30 Top Boost (Born to Rock) clipped.jpg|thumb|180px|AC30 Top Boost <!-- (Rolly Gallagher's) -->]]
Once [[The Beatles]] became tied to Vox amplifiers (a deal was struck early in their recording career whereby they would be provided Vox equipment for exclusive stage use), the quest for more power began. [[John Lennon]]'s first Vox was a fawn-coloured twin-speaker AC15, while [[George Harrison]]'s was a fawn AC30 with a top boost unit installed in the rear panel. They were later provided with twin black-covered AC30s with the rear panel top boost units. [[Paul McCartney]] was provided with one of the first transistorised amplifiers, the infamous T60, which featured an unusual separate cabinet outfitted with a 12" and a 15" speaker. The T60 head had a tendency to overheat, and McCartney's was no exception, so he was then provided with an AC30 head which powered the T60's separate speaker cabinet.

As the crowds at Beatles shows got louder, they needed louder amps. Jennings provided Lennon and Harrison with the first AC50 piggyback units, and McCartney's AC30/T60 rig was replaced with an AC100 head and an AC100 2×15" cabinet. Lennon and Harrison eventually got their own AC100 rigs, with 4×12"/2-horn configurations. In 1966 and 1967, The Beatles had several prototype or specially-built Vox amplifiers, including hybrid tube/solid-state units from the short-lived 4- and 7-series. Harrison in particular became fond of the 730 amp and 2×12 cabinet, using them to create many of the guitar sounds found on ''[[Revolver (Beatles album)|Revolver]]'' and ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''. Lennon favoured the larger 7120 amplifier, while Harrison preferred the 730 and McCartney had its sister 430 bass amplifier.

[[Image:Vox Super Beatle amplifier, Beatles Ludwig drumset, Museum of Making Music (edit1).jpg|thumb|180px|Vox Super Beatle (exhibited at [[Museum of Making Music]])]]
In the early 1960s, the Brothers Grim became the first American group to use Vox Amplifiers. Joe Benaron, CEO of [[Warwick Electronics]] Inc. / [[Thomas Organ Company]], the United States distributor of Vox, along with Bernard Stockly (London), importer of Challenge pianos to the United States, arranged for the boys to have full use of the tall Super AC 100 Vox amps (4×12" speakers). The solid-state version of this amp (known in the US as the "Super Beatle") was produced to cash in on the Beatles-Vox affiliation, but was not nearly as successful as the valve AC30 and AC15 models.

A modern popular rock artist known for use of the Super Beatle is [[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]], although in the April 2008 issue of Premier Guitar, lead guitarist [[Mike Campbell (musician)|Mike Campbell]] revealed that the Super Beatle backline was, on their thirtieth anniversary tour at least, primarily used only as a stage prop, though Petty used his "on a couple of songs." In the group's early days, the Vox equipment was chosen because it was relatively inexpensive in 1976, yet had a handsome appearance. A photograph included in the article showed Campbell's guitar sound was coming from other amplifiers hidden behind the large Super Beatles, which Campbell stated were "a tweed [[Fender Deluxe]] and a blackface [[Fender Princeton]] together behind the Super Beatle, and an isolated Vox AC30 that I have backstage in a box."

The [[Monkees]] concealed themselves in large empty Vox cabinet and emerged from them as a grand entrance to the opening of the shows on the 1967 tour and they used real Vox amps for the performances.