My first amp around 1975 when I was 16 was a 2nd hand vintage 1960s Vox AC30
my parents paid 50 quid cash for.
The vox was so cheap because they were old hat boring Beatles amps
that nobody serious wanted any more.

It'd do because the whole band could plug into all the input jacks.

We did our first proper gig like that, all on stage playing through that old loud Vox.

Unfortunately it died within a few months, and the music shop strongly recommended
instead of repairing that unreliable old fashioned beast,
parents should take out HP on the brand new cutting edge technology HH 100wat transistor combo
with the space age green glowing facia panel.

Wilko Johnson used one on the telly - so that was that - HP contract signed.

The HH was impressively loud, but sounded dull and lifeless,
and I was stuck with it while mum and dad were still committed paying HP for it,
for all my following years of punk / new wave gigging
until I was 22 and packed in being in bands to go to Poly to do a degree.
I donated the HH to a west country community music collective.
That's the last I ever saw of it.

Vox AC30s however, were coming back into fashion, and the prices for the old 1960s originals
starting to skyrocket .

Letting go of the AC30 is my biggest guitar gear regret....
I was young, inexperienced, and very naive.
I bet all the repair it needed was new valves and maybe a some replaced capacitors ???

Annoyingly enough, those mid 70s HH amps are now cult collectors items
praised for their tone ???

I'd actually like to have a go on one, to see if I've now learned enough
to try to finally get a decent sound out of it ?????