ID Strange Little Amp?

[tube power]

Can anyone tell me what kind of amps these are?
Looks like 2 210's on top of one another.
Rory Gallagher from 70's...

[teemuk]

Stramp K-85 "Power Baby". One of Rory's favourites - he was so inspired by it that he put parts of its circuit diagram to the cover of "Blueprint" album. Oh, it's a solid-state amp.

[tube power]

Thanks,
Rory could have made a "First Act" amp sound great, but I was just curious.
I like the size of that amp.
Yeah, that's a weird picture, looks like he's in a science fiction movie or working in Einstein's lab.

[J M Fahey]

Hi Teemu, do you have the schematic?
I like Rory's playing and sound very much, I think if he used an SS amp, there must have been good sound to back that, not forgetting he earlier used a hard to beat Rangemaster+AC30 combination.

[teemuk]

Nope. I've been hunting for one but the only Stramp schematics I've found so far are for their tube Marshall clones, similar to the stuff used by Gerry McAvoy in the footage here.

In the end, I think the Stramp design may not be all too different from rest of the decent solid-state stuff from that era. Rory was a heck of a guitarist and tone is afterall 99% you, not amp. He didn't abandon his Vox amps either: from the particular era you can find footage where he has both the Vox and a stack of Stramps, only the Vox, or only the stack of Stramps. He still pretty much consistently sounded like himself, whether it was an acoustic gig or stuff with more grind in it.

[J M Fahey]

OK, thanks.
I enlarged the Album cover picture, but it's only a small fragment.
As you say, what can be seen is quite conventional.
Fully agree that most of the tone is in the hands.
That said, a Strat because of its harmonic rich, bell like sound, is much more SS friendly than a humbucker equipped guitar, which easily becomes farty, so that may be part of it.
Thanks again, and if you ever find it out ... .