This excellent blog gives Martin Craig’s eyewitness account of the event:
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There are several instances of 4120/7120 cabs being used with AC100s:
 

LOS BRINCOS

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Jimmy Page had used a 4120 as part of the Yardbirds in 1968 (more pics here); note the panel of a  4120 to the right, with another amp head on top –

Here he is in February 69, at ‘Thee Image” in Miami Beach Florida, described as ‘a big bowling alley‘ or ‘a big open ballroom floor with three stages, a meditation room, and black lights’.   (more…)

There isn’t much information aound on production, time, location, or who was in control of the zoom on the camera.  The Led Zeppelin site says this was most likely filmed in February 1969 in Miami (a follow up comment says  “…This was likely filmed at Thee Image’ Club in Miami sometime around Feb 14th and 15th when they did two shows there”.

The video for Communication Breakdown shows the 4120 on top of some Rickenbacker cabinets.  I was looking at the blur trying to make out if there was a lead running along and a missing control switch, when I remembered another photo showing a lead running in the same way, and a missing first switch (the volume of the Bass channel).   The way the lead sits looks the same or very similar – and the other photo does seem to be from ‘Thee Image’.  There is a line of marks on the wall behind, and a sloping join of some panels – here’s a comparison;

photo, apparently from Thee Image, missing a volume control on Bass channel

It seems this video was indeed shot at Thee Image then.  It also shows that (more…)

Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), “Coeur De Boeuf, Sur Le Sable”,  before Rome festival in 1968 (more…)

4120 / 7120 CABS WITH OTHER AMPS (for Guitar and Organ)

THE ZOMBIES

The beautiful open-backed cab (above), currently in the UK, was originally owned by Rod Argent of The Zombies.  The amp pictured came from a different source.  There were a few reported sightings of these gargantuan things on Vox Talks in the late ’90s, but most seemed to have a mythical air about them.  Now, four others have come to light, two with closed backs, two with open.

LOS BRAVOS – Organ

Note the Supreme on the cab in the background, raised up on chocks to clear the side (more…)

FURTHER SIGHTINGS

BEE GEES

Above, a promotional shot taken in Knightsbridge in 1967 to record the band’s signing with Robert Stigwood. On the far left on the stage floor, what looks like a Marshall head. Behind the band, either a 7120 or 760 on a trolley – the end handle on the amp is just visible.

THE TROGGS

Orchid Ballroom, Purley – seen by Carl Nielsen, who worked at the time for Triumph Electronics just along the road. The band had 7120s on top of stacked cabs – much as Pink Floyd and others at the Rome Festival in 1968, on which see this entry (with further links on that page). Carl was later involved in the plan to build 7200s or 7240s (ie. 200 or 240watt monsters) for the Beatles, a process that never came to completion.

Presumably the amps used by The Troggs were provided for the occasion – 3rd August – by Vox/Triumph. No pictures have so far surfaced of the band using 7 series amps elsewhere.

Interesting to note that The Troggs were managed by Larry Page, who was also closely associated with another band that used 7120s – Los Brincos (as producer in 1968). For more – see this blog post.

Royal Variety Performance, late 1966, introduced by David Frost

Four 7120 cabs on stage

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Nice pics of Hendrix, with what looks to be a 4120 in the background on top of two 460 cabs.  He’s plugged into something else when the pics here were taken;  maybe Hendrix,  who  was always curious about new gear,  tried out the 4120 that night too.  (Perhaps even the one pictured HERE).

Jimmy Page was looking around in the 80s/90s for a style of vox amp he’d used before, with switches on the front, and big kt88 valves…

Carl Nielsen supplied him with at least one, a ul-7120; two of them can be seen here in the video.   One that Carl supplied seems to have had the voltage selector area blocked off;  this sometimes happened on some of the Scandinavian supplied Vox amps, so possibly it was originally sold there, or it was just modified later.

Great taster of the programme, some out-takes on youtube –