FOR SALE
VOX AC-100 Guitar Amp Owned by John Lennon
$15,000.00
How I came to have this authentic VOX AC-100 Amp owned by John Lennon
that I am now listing on Ebay.
This quote is taken from "Beatles Gear by Andy Babiuk, page 143...
"Following the two shows at the Forum in Montreal, the tour moved on to Florida for a performance
at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. The September 11, (1964) concert was somewhat hindered by Hurrican Dora,
which had hit the city the day before, but went ahead as scheduled. To help promote the performance,
local promoters staged a battle-of-the bands contest for local groups. It was
sponsered by Music Mart, the VOX dealer in Orlando. The winners would be given the Beatles VOX amplifiers.
| One of the members of the winning band was Charlie Lytle, who later became a sales
rep for Korg USA. Lytle's band, The Rockin' Roadrunners, were Beatle copyists. He recalls that they had
to go up to Jacksonville to get their prize, the Beatle's amps. After their show at the Gator bowl we
took our van right in and drove up to the stage. We got the bass amp and an AC-100 guitar amp.
Lytle says his group continued to use the prize amps. A detailed examination of them was recently made at Korg's US headquarters in NY. When taken apart, they showed signs of being non- production prototype AC-100 heads. The photo below is of the group with these amps. | 
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the band through its decade-long career, splitting these duties with Paul McCartney.
The pair agreed early on to share songwriting credits, though they directly collaborated
on only a few of the Beatles' hits. Lennon, for his part, contributed more experimental
and mystical music during the band's later years, while McCartney was more pop-oriented.
In late 1969 he informed the group that he wanted to quit the band, but because contract
negotiations were underway with EMI, his decision was kept quiet. Lennon refocused on his
music career in February 1970 with the Top 10 hit "Instant Karma." Two months later Paul
McCartney released his debut solo album and publicly announced the end of the Beatles,
angering Lennon, who had first had the idea and wanted to be the one to break the news.
In early 1980 Lennon came out of retirement and signed a new record deal with Geffen.
John and Yoko recorded a new album that summer, Double Fantasy, which was released in
November. The highly listenable album and its first single, "(Just Like) Starting Over,"
both charted, and Lennon seemed to be on the verge of a comeback. While leaving his New
York apartment on December 8, Lennon was approached by a sleazy-looking fan who requested
an autograph. When John returned home several hours later, the fan was still outside his
apartment, and shot Lennon several times. He died minutes later, and the crazed fan,
Mark David Chapman, was quickly arrested. On December 14 at 2 p.m., Lennon fans around
the world participated in a widely publicized 10-minute silent vigil. Naturally,
Double Fantasy and "Starting Over" went to No. 1 and sold thousands of copies.
In the years following Lennon's death, his cult only grew. During the mid-'80s
Capitol released several albums of unreleased songs, including 1985's Milk and Honey and
a recording of Lennon's performance at a 1972 benefit concert, among others.
Lennon-mania resumed with renewed fervor at the turn of the century with the
publication of a handful of books on the life of the late pop star and cultural icon:
Geoffrey Giuliano's Lennon In America, Robert Rosen's Nowhere Man: The Final Days
Of John Lennon and Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews From 1970,
featuring transcripts of interviews conducted by Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner.