What was your first amp (old guys only)

[addylewis]

ok, I'm not old (22), but my first amp was a beat up early 70's Vox 125 head (needing valves) which I got for about £250 (seems like a ripoff now...) - still got it, one day I may get it going...

 

[addylewis]

jeez, how do you post pictures in this place?!

I got this head, minus decent grill cloth, logo (which fell off) and cab

 

[jz0h4d]

First amp in 1966 a Kalamazoo Bass 30 . 30 watts all tube 2-10's.

Second amp in 68 a Sunn 200S 60 watts (tube) 2-15's.

Wish i still had the sunn it's the Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead sound.

 

[Larzon]

First amp was a Dynacord Bass-King. I don't remember how it sounded.
My first gig rig was: Marshall Super Bass 100w (early 70's) with 4x12 x2 cabinets. Sounded great! I had it for many years. And I played my old Fender P '63. I wish I had it today

 

[notrt]

...with the 2x15 cabinet it came with. Tubely and phat---funny, it seemed plenty loud back in the day...now, I run a couple of orders of magnitude more power...and no one fusses about it. Wish I still had that head.

RC a/k/a "notrt"

 

[hasadari]

Acoustic 220 head and Acoustic 440 cabinet (2 -15"). For $300 in 1981. Awesome. An I resent the "old" comment.

 

[lpdeluxe]

...we're broken in!


Established.


Experienced.


Um, did I say established?

 

[Chunk-O-Funk]

A PolyTone mini Brute, about 1982

Before that I played through my older brothers Peavey guitar amp.

 

[Keeaumoku]

First amp was a guitar amp. Like one of the very earliest posters to this thread, it was a Sears Silvertone combo with an 8" speaker. My daddy bought it for me soon after I'd paid $40.00 of my own hard-earned paper route money, to a guy in the neighborhood, for a Kay dual pup guitar. I think the year was 1964... and it would also pick-up a radio station... WBAP out of Dallas, I seem to recall..

BTW... that guy used my $40 to help pay for a beautiful white Mosrite guitar, and a Fender Twin-Reverb amp. As you might already have imagined, his band played a lot of surfer music... Ventures, Beach Boys, Surfaris, Jan & Dean, etc... in Texas!

First bass amp was a Kustom 200 with 3 x 15" cabinet... both decked-out in fabulous red sparkle... bought this beast in 1971, slightly used in perfect condition.

 

[buffordbass]

1971 Standell Imperial 100 watts rms with an 8x8 bass cab with Wurlitzer organ speakers in it. Wish I still had that sweet little rig!!!!

 

[T. Alan Smith]

GK 400RB

 

[bassplayer48085]

My first bass amp was around '75 or '76 and was a 50 watt Fender Bassman with a 2x15" cabnet.

 

[4x4Given]

FIRST - 1981 to 1985
1981 Peavey 400 Bass (Mark III) and Peavey 215 cab (on casters) with a white Peavey T40 bass (can't find pic of this anymore). Bought in new, in 1981 for $1,300. Regret having sold it.



2000 - PRESENT
Now I have a 1978 Peavey Mark III Bass and 215 cab (also on casters) again. With an Alvarez A5EB. (got back into playing back in 2000)

The first Peavey amp/cab rig looked like my current one here. (minus the 1x18 sub and Alvarez)
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[daveonbass]

Uh.... Wow! Thanks for this thread!

My first amp was a FARFISA... The first "F" and last "A" were missing so it just said "ARFIS" on it... I thought it was an ARFIS for years until someone told me there was no such company...



Played my KINGSTON $20 bass through it until I could step up to an Elektra Jazz Bass copy... think that one cost me a whopping $50-75...

 

[GoLow]

My 1st amp was a Kustom 200, rolled and pleated silver metalflake naugahyde. Sucker had 200 watt head tied to a single cab with 2 15" JBL speakers. That boy would really push some air! I still have it but the amp's pretty much shot as well as the speakers. It still looks boss, though. Oh yeah, I bought it in 1967 when I was 16 for around $800.

 

[Doug Parent]

My first amp was a FARFISA... The first "F" and last "A" were missing so it just said "ARFIS" on it... I thought it was an ARFIS for years until someone told me there was no such company...
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I always enjoy hearing others admit to thinking things that are amusingly cute and totally wrong as I have many times because of some misunderstood word or missing data somehow.

 

[jmarcus2]

An Ampeg B25B, but I think I first played thru a friend's "Kingston".

 

[jmarcus2]

Sorry, the Kingston was my friend's first bass. I think the amp was a Sears... Too many drugs...

 

[GlennW]

Echolette BS40 and a 2x12 bass reflex cabinet.

 

[Pako]

I feel old, does that count? Seriously, I was called Mr. *insert last name* by a couple of kids just last week..., yep, must be getting old.

Ok, since I fit the bill, my first amp was a 1980's Fender Bassman 20. I know, not very exciting....but that's my story.