BobB Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Ampeg combo amp with one 12" speaker. Might have been Gemini model. I bought it brand new for $150 in the early '70's. Had to mow a lot of lawns to come up with the cash. Mel Hansen, at Hansen Music in Billings, MT was very cool about letting me payments. I wish I still had that little amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 My first amp (1970ish) was a "Custom Craft" or "Kustom Kraft", I don't remember the spelling. I have no idea what happened to it, I think I gave it away to a neighbor kid along with the guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Fender Deluxe '85. 65 watt solid state with Fender Reverb. Great starter Amp. Oh Yeah, I still have it. It has a 10 in Fender Blue Back speaker that really sizzles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krock Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Mine was an eleca 10watt amp that came with my eleca guitar. Got it from Argos for christmas when I was 11. The amps still in my family, I gave it to my sister when she went uni so she could play her mp4 through it, but when she moves into her own house next year I might try and get it back. It was a piece of sh*t but it was still my first. Actually, if you click on the link to my youtube channel you can see the image of the amp in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnastynebr Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Crate solid state combo. 10-15 W, one speaker. Loaned it to my brother 10 years ago to use as a monitor and never saw it again. Don't know what happened to it, and don't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
46 and 2 Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 New Crate GT15R (because CC DeVille played Crate’s ) for Christmas in 1989. Along with a used Memphis single pup POS guitar. Oh and a Crate T shirt I wore to rags all through junior high. I left the amp at a party some time in highschool but when I went back to get it a few months later the “party host” had moved out and my Crate went with him. I still have my Crate T shirt embarrassingly enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recsec Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 A Laney Linebacker 30 solid state amp. I still have as my practice amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy60 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 a gorilla practice amp. left it with my sister when i moved outta town and never went back for it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I don't remember my first tiny beginner amp. My first real amp was a 60w Peavey Classic. I didn't care for it much at the time, but wish I had it back now. Here it is being partially blocked by my buddy's leg :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Mine was a Peavey Series 400 that I carted around for 20 odd years and ended up giving away about 2 years ago. Just before starting to play guitar again. Timing is everything. Oh well. It gave me an excuse to get my new Marshall. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Owl Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 It was called a Peavey "Rage" I think, got it from a Pawn shop back around 98, probably 12" speaker, but no more than 15 watts solid state. It was alright, but the input jack was loose so it fizzled and crackled out on me. Caused me to stop playing for a wihle during my crucial development years, so that can explain a bit of my shortcoming when it comes to my playing. Sold, or traded or given away for parts. I don't remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChanMan Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 One of these: Traded for one of these so I could play out: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff-7 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Fender Vibro Champ XD, still have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Witmer Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Fender Sidekick bass amp, which I traded about ten years ago to get my first acoustic guitar. I don't really miss it, but I do remember it fondly. It put up with a lot of use and abuse, especially in college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PP_CS336 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Fender Deluxe Reverb. Yeah, I wish I still had the DR. The monster is a great amp, but for all-around purposes I still think the DR is about the best tube type ever... The real weakness to the DR is that of most older tube amps, I think. No real "line out" or "earphone" type of output. But back then nobody thought of such stuff really. I think "we" tend to get too much into power and not enough into general sound heard by an audience whether we're going solo or in an ensemble. Which is why I keep thinking more nowadays about PA stuff... m Milod, I have to agree with you in most respects. My first amp was a Fender Deluxe Reverb (196X's model). All of 22Watts, but it was a killer. Add a Maestro fuzz to that and you could play early Hendrix and Cream to your heart's content. I now have a VOX AC30CC2. I love it, but the sucker weighs about 75lbs. Not too easy to lug around to gigs. It's only 30Watts, but their British Watts and they scream, too. Neither of these amps have "line-out" or "earphone" outputs, as you mention about the Fender DR. When playing with a PA, the best thing to do is "mic" it. You can gets some great sounds with these amps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 A solid state Sunn 1 12 ... gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MojoRedFoot Posted January 11, 2011 Author Share Posted January 11, 2011 Mine was similar to this but I think it was a 25 watt. I think it was the same series. Closest thing I could find. Long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 PP_CS336 Yeah, I don't think the DR was "the perfect amp," but... at least in the 1960s I think it was the best all-around for anything I knew anyone doing. I played some pretty big venues with mine in a band; we all were pretty well maxed out with the DR, bandmaster and bassman and a tube PA with speakers folks would laugh at today. In the day, though, it was a decent outfit. I used it also for some solo work with soundhole or other "attachable" pickups on acoustic flat tops or archtops and ran a mike through the other preamp side. I used it to amplify my turntable. Etc., etc. Ah, but if only it had some way to have a line out or a headphone jack. And I wish the big mamajama only was 75 pounds. Whew. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 A new 1964 Fender Bandmaster piggy-back. Great amp...I wish I DID, still have it! Traded it in, about 1966/67, on a Twin Reverb. CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PP_CS336 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 PP_CS336 Yeah, I don't think the DR was "the perfect amp," but... at least in the 1960s I think it was the best all-around for anything I knew anyone doing. I played some pretty big venues with mine in a band; we all were pretty well maxed out with the DR, bandmaster and bassman and a tube PA with speakers folks would laugh at today. In the day, though, it was a decent outfit. I used it also for some solo work with soundhole or other "attachable" pickups on acoustic flat tops or archtops and ran a mike through the other preamp side. I used it to amplify my turntable. Etc., etc. Ah, but if only it had some way to have a line out or a headphone jack. And I wish the big mamajama only was 75 pounds. Whew. m Milod, Yeh, I was reading in Keith Richards' book "Life" how he used to try rig up playing through transistor radios and stuff like that. I remember somehow rigging up my mothers stereo to amplify my guitar, or was that one of my pre-flashback pipe-dreams. Those were the days, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 PP_CS336 Yeah... if for no other reason than we had a lot fewer choices of decent guitars and amps. <grin> I guarantee most of the younger guys here literally would laugh at the amps used by the guys in my first rock band - I was playing trumpet and the acoustic piano and sax player managed to keep up volume-wise. I'm chuckling when I tease that the one kid's Gibson tube Amp probably had 4-inch speaker. It probably was an 8 but... in retrospect it was tiny. But we had folks dancin'. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayG Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Univox U65RN bought new at Sam Ash in '72 (thanks Dad!). Fifteen solid state watts, reverb, tremolo and a twelve inch speaker. Gave it to my cousin Mike when I moved around 1980. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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