My first amp was a 2nd hand 1960s AC30..
50 quid from a local music shop, about 1975 when I was 16..

Multiple inputs, our band could all plug in and gig local halls with it.
It lasted a few months before something blew up.

I'm very sad now, rathe than repair, I was persuaded to put it in part exchange
for deposit on a modern spage age sci fi looking solid state HH combo,
with green glowing control panel..

I was too young and inexperienced to know how to get good tone out of,
and maintain, the Vox;
and though the HH was bloody loud, it never sounded any good.
Just flat and sterile..

At that early stage our band mostly played Shadows, Eddie Cochran, and T.Rex covers,
at family and friends social functions..

In our youthful shambolic stupidity, it never occurred to us that our audience might not like any of these..
Fortunately they seemed to, or at least tolerated and indulged our enthusiasm and self taught rudimentary musicianship
Proud mums and dads...

The Shadows can be blamed/thanked for many thousands of local teen bands like us, even still long into the 1970s...

In many ways, we were still so very much like a typical provincial late 1950s/early 60s youth club band..

But Punk Rock was about to call us...

.. and we still continued playing a few Shads tunes.. though much faster and nastier...