What was your First

[dave.king1]

My first amp was a 30W home build with 2 x 807s in pushpull driving 2 x 12 Etone speakers, sort of looked like an AC30. The 385v DC on the caps sure gabbed your attention if you bumped one while poking around in the back.

Amps after this overtime
Vadis 60W
Lenard 150W ( 8 x 12s sure push some air when cranked )
Dan Armstrong 30W Combo
Dan Armstrong 100W with 1 x 15" JBL
H||H 100IC-S with Marshall quad box ( immensely loud and clean )
Peavey Rage
Fender Mustang 1

Still have the H||H, Peavy & Mustang

I miss the Dan Armstrongs they were great little boxes and were fine for club work but no good in really big rooms or outdoors, PAs weren't all that great back then

[wokkaboy]

nice collection there Dave, glad you still got the Peavey.
I had Shoota over lastnight to setup his daughters 3/4 ST and he suggested get a small amp for the workshop to test wiring and I thought what a great idea. Found a little 20W Peavey amp on gumtree for $40 I'll pick up tomoz and even comes with a cover to stop all the dust over it !
Whats the Mustang 1 Dave a combo ? I've got a mustang 5 digital head powering my marshal quad and that has some good sounds.
This is fast turning into an amp thread haha

[Rob L]

I was 13 when I got my '52 Tele. I spend an entire year doing work for people, shoveling snow, mowing lawns and doing yard work to be able to get the Tele and a Fender Twin Reverb. My mom kicked in a bit when she realized how serious I was about it. Put a band together around that same time and have been playing in and out bands and recording ever since.
And now I feel really old.
For the hell of it I did some research tonight and found '52s in crap condition going for up to $15k. Mint condition can go for as high as $50k if the original case and paper work is with it. $100K + for two guitars in today's market. Man that is crazy!!!

If we only knew then what we know now.

[kells80aus]

My First amp(1970 ish} was a little over the top. It was an Eminar 100Watt(or what did you say?) Valve amp with four EL34's.
I think it cost me $200AUS. For our Amreican friends to put this into perspective it was an Aussie version of the JTM100.
large head, quad box with 4 x 12in speakers. Can't remember if they were Jensen or Celstion. Now for our Aussie Amp officianados' the head unit had pots not sliders, so this was an early build, based very closely on the marshall, but without the presence control.
I used to sit in my 10 foot by 10 foot by 10 foot bedroom and play my little tits off. pitty I really didn't have much skill, all I achieved was a reduction in my hearing level. After I sold the Maton, I had a period where I was into Bass, and ahd a big old Hoffner bass. It fell to bits and I tipped it. If I had the knowledge I have now I could have fixed it.

PK

[stan]

First amp was and still is, a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb! Bought it when I bought my MIJ Fender Tele in the mid 80's.
Still have both of these.
Cost me $900 for the pair...

[Rob L]

I thought it would be interesting to price guitars I used to own at today's value.
Good thing I really don't go in for regrets cause it would drive a person crazy seeing a guitar they paid $50 for used at a small hole in the wall music store now worth around $2k.

[DrNomis_44]

The first Electric guitar I owned was a Samick Superstrat guitar, it had a cream coloured body with silver crackle on it, a black plastic pickguard, had neck and middle single-coil pickups and a bridge humbucker, the bridge was like a standard strat-style type but was black in colour, and there was a 5-position pickup switch, my first amp was a little headphone amp I built, sounded pretty awful clean but got a pretty interesting overdrive sound when I cranked it up, my second amp was a little Electronics Australia Pugnose Amp I built from a kit of parts, I built the cabinet for the EA Pugnose Amp out of some particle board and spray-painted it black, the amp sounded okay played clean at low volume but when I turned it up it Motor-Boated (made a steady Bup-Bup-Bup sound) and the little power-amp got very hot, the third amp I owned was a solid-state Fender Stage Lead II, had a pretty decent clean tone but was a bit lacking in overdrive even at full gain, my current amp is a Marshall MA 100C 100 Watt All Valve 2X12 Combo amp, when it's working properly it sounds great with my Gibson USA Les Paul Studio guitar, but when it breaks down it's a bit of a pain, it keeps blowing the main HT Fuse and I've been able to narrow the cause down to one of the Power Valve sockets.

[stan]

I thought it would be interesting to price guitars I used to own at today's value.
Good thing I really don't go in for regrets cause it would drive a person crazy seeing a guitar they paid $50 for used at a small hole in the wall music store now worth around $2k.

might be more heartbreaking than interesting.... I had a Maton solid body electric stolen in the 80's, gold hardware, seymore duncans as standard, beautiful polished timber. I paid $900 for it then, and have never seen one like it since. I dont want to know that is worth a fortune now...

[Rob L]

might be more heartbreaking than interesting.... I had a Maton solid body electric stolen in the 80's, gold hardware, seymore duncans as standard, beautiful polished timber. I paid $900 for it then, and have never seen one like it since. I dont want to know that is worth a fortune now...

It made me wince for sure. Especially finding out how much '57 Strats and '52 Teles can be worth now. But the real surprise were guitars like the Epiphones I've owned over the years. An early 60's Epi Wilshire I picked up for under $100 is now worth as much as $4k!!
And so many of those Japanese made guitars from the 60's are worth a lot. I used to tear them apart to make other guitars out of them.

That's the tough ones Stan. The stolen ones. I had a '57 Strat stolen. It never showed up anywhere. No stores, no pawn shops.

[stan]

I'd rather not know where it went Rob, because I cant prove it was once mine, so I'd rather not come across it, and it was a proper lefty - rarer still

'57 Strat! That's real pain my friend