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Location: SE Michigan | Mine was an Ampeg VT22 combo. Must have been around 1975. It was huge, as I recall it had two 12" speakers and 4 big power tubes. I also recall it weighed about 4000 pounds. My back still aches thinking about toting that thing up and down all those basement stairs. In my neck of the woods we always seemed to practice in someone's basement.
I think the VT22 may have been better suited as a base amp.
I am told now that this thing was a great amp but at the time I was too inexperienced to know what to do with the darn thing, and somewhere along the line I sold it. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | yamaha jx30 purchased at sam ash in or about 1980 ... it still works! (though I occasioanlly have to give it a knock to get the reverb to work)
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Location: Seacoast NH | A Gallien Krueger 250ml I got off an older cousin when I was about 10. Used it for years. Guys would laugh when I showed up at jams with an amp slightly larger than a loaf of bread. Their jaws would drop when I fired it up though...and when I added an old Peavey cab it was just a massive sound. Sold it in my late teens so I could move to Colorado with my girlfriend -- wish I never had, don't see too many of these around anymore.
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Location: SoCal | I couldn't afford an amp back in high school. I was very lucky to have a musician neighbor who would let me use either his Bassman-15 or 4x10. I did not appreciate them for what they were. I was a kid and wanted a new amp that was unreachable (not an amp that he always described as being older than me). I took care of them when in my possession. Around graduation time, he passed away. His family said just keep the amps if I wanted. The only thing I could think about at that time was graduating and spending time out West mountain climbing. They got boxed-up and stored at my brother's printshop.
I think the first amp that I actually purchased was a Gallien Krueger 206MLE... bought it new just for practice at home, but realized it had more to offer. Stereo, effects loop, built-in compressor, chorus, reverb, aux. stereo in, stereo balanced/unbalanced outs, foot control for all major functions, left/right speaker outs and internal speaker on/off, 2x60watts. On electric guitar, it is the solid-state sound from its Day. Works great for rhythm. It also does acoustic very well. GK also made the smallest 4x12 Celestion-loaded wood cab. I'd leave the 4x12 cab where we practiced or lugged it to jams, but always went home with the 206MLE (my lunchbox). I still have the rig. The 4x12 is in a closet right now, but the 206MLE sits right on my bench where it is the first thing a guitar gets plugged into when it arrives. I am just getting into the vast world of pedals, and the 206MLE is right there helping me learn. I don't think I have any photos, so here's something from the net.
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Location: Seacoast NH | Now that's a nice GK! Yup, guess I have to add one to my growing wish list... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | When I bought a Univox for $35, I didn't know that the Fender Twin for $65 was the best part of the deal. I think it was a twin, but I didn't play guitar, so I passed on the deal and played the Univox through the auxiliary jack of my Sansui receiver through speakers I got from our old Firestone TV and some matching radio. Red velvet covers on them.
That served the purpose, which was primarily to turn up against the wall and make awful noises to drown out the guy in the dorm room next door when he'd sing along with Helen Reddy to "I Am Woman". I liked to roar on cue.
30 years later I got a little bass practice amp to use with an acoustic. Never used it so I gave it to my brother. |
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| Mine was a used Supro and it had a 12 inch speaker - I traded a shotgun for it. |
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Location: Route 66, just east of the Cadillac Ranch | Joe Rotax wrote:
Mine was a used Supro and it had a 12 inch speaker - I traded a shotgun for it.
The shotgun didn't give you the sound you wanted? |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Shotguns don't have much volume control... and they tend to thin out the audience.
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| Single shot 12 gauge - big sound but limited creativity with having to reload all the time...lol |
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Location: Central Oregon | Mine was a quarter inch jack mounted in the side of a wooden tabletop B&W Zenith TV & wired into the TV's amp circuit. That was about 1957. |
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Location: closely held secret | Mine was an Ampeg reel-to-reel with a blown motor. Circa 1968. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Correction: Waskel just reminded me that I had a Sony reel-to-reel circa 1965 that I used before I got the Sansui. Just sold the Sony last year. |
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Can you remember your first amp?
