What is the Ampeg logo supposed to be?

[MesoBoogie]

Yea I get it's an "a" but what IS it.

 

[TheRealKong]

To me it looks like a speaker and a soundwave that's been produced by it.

Your imagination may vary.

 

[tkonbass]

A bulls-eye with a Mohawk.

 

[beans-on-toast]

It reminds me of a helmet, a sports team's logo. Team Ampeg. There have been a number of variations of the same logo over the years.


It would be worth asking on their facebook page: Ampeg | Facebook

 

[Michedelic]

Side view of a wheelchair that lifelong owners of an SVT rig or VT-22 will eventually end up in after the hernia operation.

 

[basscooker]

^ That's the best answer so far.

 

[MesoBoogie]

Side view of a wheelchair that lifelong owners of an SVT rig or VT-22 will eventually end up in after the hernia operation.

I'm hauling around a Mesa 8x10, (177lbs), and an SVT-CL...now that logo is looking ominous.

 

[Mike A]

It's a wave of mud, cresting over an eardrum.

I'm KIDDING!! Gentlemen, rest your sphincters.

 

[fretless19]

It is in fact the rubber foot of a peg of an upright bass. Ampeg is shortens from AMP-PEG, and they were originally trying to put amplification into uprights.

 

[cfsporn]

I always thought the Ampeg logo was based on one of JimmyM's birthmarks.

 

[JFOC]

bulls eye with a toupee...

jk poster above had it I think..

 

[pravus]

I see a slightly irritated and piercing eye gazing at you wondering why you have the volume knob so low. But that's just me...

 

[BassmanPaul]

It is in fact the rubber foot of a peg of an upright bass. Ampeg is shortens from AMP-PEG, and they were originally trying to put amplification into uprights.

Close, it was shortened from Amplified Peg. IIRC the transducer/pickup was attached to the uprights peg.

 

[waltdogg]

Hmm. Although the logo existed long before the almighty tilt-back 8x10, I always thought it was a tilt-back caster under the weight of the 8x10.

 

[S-Bigbottom]

Hmm. Although the logo existed long before the almighty tilt-back 8x10, I always thought it was a tilt-back caster under the weight of the 8x10.

So this is the mark that it leaves on your foot.

 

[friendlybass]

The eye of JimmyM, watching over us all

 

[Killed_by_Death]

It's a very poorly done Eye of Osiris:

 

[High Camp]

An ancient Greek warrior...

 

[Bill Hughes]

The logo is an "A" simple as that. Roger Cox created it in 68 or 69.

Bill

 

[dmac1961]

^^^^^^From the man himself.