Interesting Rory Gallagher Rig - Tweed Bassman and a Brownface Concert?

[Bluesful]

Hi all.

For the Rory G fans, check this out.

I know Rory used a Tweed Bassman or Twin with the AC30 on the Irish Tour (@hogy has written about that), but I've never seen him use a Tweed with what looks to be a Brownface.

These amps look like a Bassman and a Brownface Concert to me. Am I wrong?

 

[Senor Forum]

One of the very best to have ever held a guitar. Irish Tour is IT for me. Million Miles Away on that album is absolute perfection.

 

[hogy]

Yep, Bassman, Concert and Stramps.

 

[Bluesful]

Stramps.

What's 'Stramps'?

 

[teemuk]

I spot at least the Stramp's Marshall clone used by the bassist. Rory himself frequently used two solid-state Stramp Power Baby amps. Not sure if on this gig, though.

 

[Echoplexi]

Man, he was so good. I would have loved to see him live.

 

[Bluesful]

I would have loved to see him live.

You and me both mate.

 

[hogy]

What's 'Stramps'?

Stramp. Peter Strüven Amplifier. German builder whose amps Rory was using in the 1970s.

 

[Wyatt Martin]

Stramp. Peter Strüven Amplifier. German builder whose amps Rory was using in the 1970s.

I want to say the picture on his "Blue Print" album is actually a photo of his Stramp amp schematic.

 

[hogy]

I want to say the picture on his "Blue Print" album is actually a photo of his Stramp amp schematic.

Yes, schematic for the Stramp Power Baby.

Leslie West used them, too.

 

[56Tweed]

Haven't run across that clip before, thanks for sharing!

 

[Bluesful]

Stramp. Peter Strüven Amplifier. German builder whose amps Rory was using in the 1970s.

Interesting, I've never heard of them.

Looks like it's Gerry McAvoy using them here.

 

[leighianson]

Great playing and tones, I’m gonna try and steal some of those licks for sure

 

[Bluesful]

I’m gonna try and steal some of those licks for sure

I've realised recently that I play a lot of triplet hammer-pull off flurries, and it struck me that I totally got it from listening to Rory Gallagher for so many years.

 

[RAG7890]

Rory is one of the most explosive Guitar players of our time. Sadly missed. Love his Music.

 

[Rossi163]

It always strikes me how alive that Strat of his sounds. It is simply explosive the way the tone jumps out from every spot on the fretboard. Never a dull or a dead spot, never shrill or abrasive, it does everything he wants it to and then some.
It's the epitome of what a good vintage Strat can do.

 

[OminousPoultry]

Hi all.

For the Rory G fans, check this out.

I know Rory used a Tweed Bassman or Twin with the AC30 on the Irish Tour (@hogy has written about that), but I've never seen him use a Tweed with what looks to be a Brownface.

These amps look like a Bassman and a Brownface Concert to me. Am I wrong?

I missed that Hogy post about the amps, but I fairly sure Rory's tweed twin was for sale with Vintage and Rare a while ago. If it was Rory's amp - I wonder where that went to?

 

[Bluesful]

If it was Rory's amp - I wonder where that went to?

Presumably his brother Donal after he passed?

 

[OminousPoultry]

Presumably his brother Donal after he passed?

No - it was for sale about 4 years ago

 

[OminousPoultry]

No - it was for sale about 4 years ago

actually it still seems to be there

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