Yep, the AC30 was and is right up there with the Fender Twin, and the Roland JC-120, depending on what flavor you wanted...the best of the Brits, the USA, and Japan.

Although I had experience with the Fender and JC-120, I was never fortunate enough to play a keyboard through a Vox AC30...they were hard to find and were usually grabbed up by the guitar players.

Many years ago, early 90's, whilst working in Newfoundland, one of my band mates in the Ducats, was in on the discovery of a bunch of instruments stored away in a old house outside of the capital city of St.John's. The house used to be a nightclub, and when the owner died, his wife took all the gear, which he had bought for the use of any bands playing there, and put everything in the attic, and remodeled the house. The club had only been active for about a year.

Besides a complete set of Rogers Drums, vintage Fender PA system with two speaker towers, two vintage Fender guitars, one a Tele and the other a Precision Bass, there was a red Fender Contempo Combo Organ, that only needed contact cleaner and some other minor things, to get it up to playing condition. I got to play it, because the guy who discovered knew I had some experience with combo organs, and wanted to know if it was working correctly.

http://www.combo-organ.com/Fender/fender.htm

Man, that sound brought back a lot of memories...we played it through one of the Twin Reverbs also stored away...quite a find. Lou Skinner, our guitar player, and the guy who acquired it, eventually sold it to someone in the US for an undisclosed amount, but I think he did quite well on it.

That's why I asked 124 about his instrument...some collectors will pay top dollar for these old organs.

Ian