Interested to know what did everyone start out with?
It was the 80s and I was a teenager so I plugged my Hondo strat into my home stereo and used that, then I figured out I could get an overdrive sound by plugging into a battery powered pair of walkman speakers I had, and wired the speaker leads to a plug to go into my stereo shortly after that I was able to "upgrade" to the mighty Peavey Rage and boy did I feel cool with my also newly acquired vester stage series plugged into that bad boy!
Some hideous home made ss thing called The Coffin. Only extreme youth and ignorance combined with a fistful of holiday job dollars could ever have resulted in such an abomination.
From that baseline, a Fender Princeton Chorus seemed amazing.
Don't talk to me about failure; sometimes I even fail to disappoint myself.
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench - a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson
"Compact, easy to use and versatile enough for any style of guitar playing, the 20-watt Champion 20 is an ideal choice for your first practice amp", according to Fender. I moved on up to the 22-watt Princeton Reverb II, which I am still using all these years later.
fender clip-on belt amp
Tape deck mic inputs of a JVC rack stereo
Jansen mixing desk with a 20w "monitor" amp
Borrowed:
Rockit pro champ
Holden 80
First actual real amp:
Peavey bandit-grey logo before the teal stripe. I entered into an illegal HP contract as i was 16 and my mum didnt sign. I dont think she payed anything for it and i kept it for 2 years before i felt bad and took it back. Didnt hang around to discuss details and im pretty sure it went out on the floor as a demo model lol
Concord 351 Allegro. 5W. Very early 1960's (unsure of actual date). Second amp was a Dynacord (German) amp of I think 15W (unsure). All the controls were graphics instead of English words.
He hit a chord that rocked the spinet and disappeared into the infinite ...
opsguy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:55 pm
Ross RG10 tube blaster.
Me too, I put a DS1 in front of it to try and get some sort of high gain noises. It didn't work.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll spend thousands on fishing equipment he'll use for a bit, then get bored and move onto something else.
shortly after that I was able to "upgrade" to the mighty Peavey Rage and boy did I feel cool with my also newly acquired vester stage series plugged into that bad boy! 
