Acoustic Guitar / Amp Advertisements, 1950s-1980s

Vintage Acoustic advertisements; 6 adverts covering a period of 1 years, from 1969 to 1970. Click the images to have a closer look.

Meet Our Friends - The Spirit
Acoustic Amplifiers - 1969

Meet Our Friends - Blind Faith
Acoustic Amplifiers - 1969

Meet Our Friends.... The Chambers Brothers
Acoustic Amplifiers - 1969

Meet Our Friends - Albert King and Chuck Berry
Acoustic Amplifiers - 1969

Acoustic Can Offer Unlimited Sound To Infinite Capacity
Acoustic Amplifiers - 1970

Acoustic's Just Invented The PA System
Acoustic Amplifiers - 1970

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

• electric guitar adverts
• acoustic guitar adverts
• 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