Ampeg Guitar / Amp Advertisements, 1950s-1980s

Vintage Ampeg advertisements; 7 adverts covering a period of 7 years, from 1968 to 1975. Click the images to have a closer look.

The look of kinetic sound
Ampeg Amplifiers - 1968

Ampeg Amps - Built to be Worked Hard
Ampeg SVT - 1971

Ampeg Adventure Comics
Ampeg VT-22 - 1971

Feel the sound
Ampeg VT-40 - 1972

Ampeg VT-22. 80 Pounds of Undying Devotion
Ampeg VT-22 - 1972

A Little Softer than Your Average Act of God
Ampeg Amplifiers - 1972

When The Performance is Over, Our Amps Show What They're Made Of
Ampeg Amplifiers - 1975

1967 Epiphone Ad featuring a psychedelic fish playing an Epiphone Riviera

1967 Fender Ad - Full Colour Sound

1973 Fender Stratocaster add - The Worlds Favourite Flying Machine

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• bass adverts
• amplifier adverts
• effects pedal adverts

Guitar makers have advertised in music magazines such as Down Beat, Guitar Player and very many more. Some manufacturers advertised widely (Guild, Gibson, Fender) but many more didn't and adverts are few and far between. Here are some of my favourite ads out of the ones i've seen. You can browse through all the images from the category links above, or by manufacturer from the links below.

AMPS
Ampeg, Leslie, Marshall, Orange, Peavey, Sunn
GUITARS
Dan Armstrong, Epiphone, Fender, G&L, Gibson, Goya, Gretsch, Guild, Hagstrom, Harmony, Hayman, Hofner, Ibanez, Kimbara, Martin, Music Man, Rickenbacker, Vox, Yamaha
DISTRIBUTORS
Fletcher, Coppock and Newman, Rose-Morris, Rosetti, Selmer