Tucson Thump
Mint Heavy Relic
1966 Fender Vibrochamp.
Ooo, my arch nemesis. A Yamaha solid state amp from the late 70s. I tried every stomp box known to man - all 4 of them in 79 - and they still sounded like poo. Has a built-in distortion...err, hiss generator that drove me nuts since I couldn’t sound like Kansas or Led Zeppelin. That’s back in the day when NO ONE shared the secrets of amazing guitar tone, so it took me another 10 years before I started to sound pretty good.
I’ve got a pic of this somewhere...
It came with a plywood SG copy.
(*Notice the non intonation bridge)
The action was so high on the guitar and the amp sounded like a Partridge Family Band reject, so bad I never learned more than 2-3 songs and gave it up until a decade later, when I was able to buy a real guitar & amp.
I’ve loved that song since it came out. Still listen to it at least once a month in the car or music room.In about 1975 I was about 16 years old. My 1st amp was a Peavey 150 watt solid state head and 8x10 cab that I put on layaway and paid for with $2.55/hour part-time jobs. I don't remember the model but it had fuzz, distortion, reverb, and about drove my parents and neighbors insane. I blew my brains out and damaged my left ear a little. I was the loudest and most obnoxious kid on my block and quite possibly, the state. I couldn't play anything but some power and open chords and there were no lessons. No youtoob, no dvds, no decent and knowledgeable humans. But we did have 8-track tapes and vinyl. Nowadays these little chickadees have phones with tuners and vast repositories of musical knowledge available.
Still; I would not trade the experiences of living through the 70s and 80s. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
I also started with a Gorilla...bass amp. When I also picked up guitar, I sliced the speaker cones bc I heard that's how they got distortion back in the day.
I think it was like this GB-20.
First amp was a generic little box, can't even remember what it was. First "real" amp (real to me at least) was my 1986 Peavy Stereo Chorus 400. Bought new on good-ole-fashioned layaway and still have it today.
Well, I used a Targus guitar amp for my bass for a while, but the first amp I bought for a guitar was a little Peavey Chorus. I never really liked it but it was the right price point so I kept it for a few years until I got a Mesa Boogie Mark III, which I still use 30 years later.
Mine was a Mesa Studio Caliber DC-2
I bought it off of my guitar teacher at the time
I’ve stuck with Mesa ever since
1966 Fender Vibrochamp.