Sunn Guitar / Amp Advertisements, 1950s-1980s

Vintage Sunn advertisements; 8 adverts covering a period of 4 years, from 1968 to 1972. Click the images to have a closer look.

Buffalo Springfield
Sunn Amplifiers - 1968

Ever felt the sound of the Jimi Hendrix Experience?
Sunn Amplifiers - 1968

Ever felt the sound of the Aliis
Sunn Amplifiers - 1968

So Your Sound Is Different! Who Cares? Sunn
Sunn Amplifiers - 1969

We Started with a Concept! Sound You Can Feel
Sunn Amplifiers - 1969

What Could Be More Powerful Than 175W rms?
Sunn Orion - 1969

Brian Stiddle Never Played a Sunn Amp Before
Sunn Orion - 1969

Upfront Sound in Back!
Sunn Concert Lead - 1972

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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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