Age 15 - circa 1974 - can't remember which name.. it changed every week or so...

We were school mates, playing covers - mostly The Shadows instrumentals..

First gig was probably my cousin's birthday party in a local community hut,
or my Grandmother's Co-op Women's Guild on a real stage in a magnificent Victorian Chapel.

That would have been me on rhythm guitar with a 40 quid catalogue Shaftesbury acoustic I had for my 15th birthday - fitted with a Schaller pickup.
The drummer, and his brand new drum kit.
My best mate, the lead guitarist with a cheap Japanese copy semi acoustic with Bigsby style tremolo,
and possibly a Bass guitarist.. or more likely not at that stage..

The set would have been Shadows tunes, Fleetwood Mac's Albatross
and probably The Beatles Help and I Wanna be Your Man.

Though I can't remember who'd have sung them and if we had any mics.

Amplification was my 50 quid second hand 1960s Vox AC30 with enough inputs for us all to plug in...

The amp didn't last much longer before components dramatically expired,
and was replaced soon after as part exchange for an HH 2x12" transistor combo...

I so regret losing that AC30, I've never again let any music gear go..
which accounts for my OCD collecting and hoarding which has filled our house to the point of hazardous living conditions...

Anyway, within a year our band started getting good and expanded our repertoire with Marc Bolan / T.Rex, Animals, Yardbirds songs..
and [same as John P's band] Status Quo's Pictures of Matchstick Men
until we became obsessed with DR Feelgood and started writing our own speeded up R&B proto punk songs..

By age 17 and line up changes, we added a real music qualified keyboard synthesiser player,
and were established as a pretty good college punk hippy band
playing mostly our own original songs
to our own druggy west country student audience...

The after gig parties were brilliant... !!! 😎