Amps

THE SHADOWS SELMER AMPLIFIER PICTURE GALLERY

The photos show both Hank and Bruce using Selmer Stadium amps. These were used by the Shads up to about May 1960, when they moved on to Vox amps.

Is that an early Truvoice Amp that Hank is using above?? No...it's actually a Watkins Monitor 30watt amp. A very rare beast - only six were ever made! (Thanks for the info, Ampaholics).
By the way, that is an early version of Princess Margaret that the Shads are playing to! Perhaps she lent her Watkins amp to Hank as a change from his Vox AC30!

For the story of the Shadows' read "Rock n Roll - I gave you the best years of my life" by Bruce Welsh and "The Story of the Shadows" by Mike Read.