RE: What's in your library challenge
I don't need that kidney yet but you never know! Haha :)
The Beatles one is great. The story follows all their equipment so it's different than most histories. It shows all the things as they happened during that era when all the classic gear was being made. Most everything now is a reissue or a variation of all that original stuff. It gives you a really great perspective. Whenever i go to a guitar store it all makes sense seeing all the things in there. It's pretty cool!
The Vox book is nuts! I got to meet the writer - Jim Elyea - when he was promoting the book. Amazing guy. He talked about being a hoarder and having obsessive compulsive disorder - jokingly - but how he used that to build a huge collection of Vox amps and tons of other gear. He filled a giant warehouse and rents out all of it for movie sets in Hollywood!
If you really want a great Vox look for an AC -10 it's a smaller version of the AC 30. They sound fantastic and are smaller and not as loud. The AC 30's are almost 80 lbs and really loud. Too heavy to carry around! Haha. They aren't cheap but prices have come down a bit. I can't emphasize enough how good they sound. It's worth every penny : )
Amazing, imagine back then going to a gear store and discovering all the new stuff that didn't exist before, now I see how those guys had so much creativity flowing. All those amazing equipment destroyed by Pete Townshend - the man himself said that he regrets so much he had broken those things.
I have here a baby Vox, the solid state Pathfinder 15r, just to play around inside my apartment and small bars, actually it's been some years that I don't play in a bar.
At the studio we used to play with either the AC 30 or the Fender Bassman, both deafening, too loud to crank hhaahaha