My amplifier trail

I'm the lead guitarist with Blind Five O. Over the many years of playing, I look back on an interesting trail that brings me to my beginning. I picked up guitar at 6 years old from my older brothers during the hootenanny years. I played well enough that I entertained relatives at Christmas time till I got to high school. I found friends interested in guitar too. Now, here is where I start my amplifier trail. I got a Kent electric guitar from my parents at Christmas with no amp. Hmmmm. Well, I got a cheap tube amp of the day (rare now). But, being the tone freak I was, I needed the best,,,A Fender Bandmaster. Whoa, it was great, I hauled it everywhere, what a status symbol. Short lived tho'. It wasn't loud enough. Bands were getting louder and louder. I worked part time after school by now and got a Kustom red sparkle roll and pleated amp. Whoa, impressive, solid state 100 watt. Strange, my bandmaster was 40 watts and louder, no matter, this was cool looking. Paul Revere and the Raiders would be proud. Ok, so in lies the problem, needed louder. I tried a new Traynor out and used it for month or two, and a couple others, but then Led Zeppelin happened. I needed a Marshall amp. I don't know how, but I got one, the 50 watt jcm. Magic happened, it was loud sounded great and I was on my way, picked up a 100 watt plexi and so on. The Rolling Stones went on tour using Ampeg v4 amps. I was tired of Marshall amps blowing speakers and tubes by now so I got Ampeg amplifiers. That Ampeg sounded good, was reliable as I could have hoped for and heavy, heavy, heavy. I used it about 10 years, longer than any amplifier I'd owned til then. Raising a family now. Couldn't use big amps. I got a Sunn concert head and cabinet. That was a very good solid state amp. It lasted a couple of years. I had bought some combo Peavy amps that sounded okay by now, 20 years later, I'm in the late 1980's now and I really wanted that great sound out a small combo amp. Yep, I bought a Fender untimate chorus, now that's better, used it pert near ten years. Married my 2nd wife and got a, you guessed it , Fender deluxe 90, Fender deluxe vm, and a new Fender deluxe reverb just recently at Christmas 2009. So, I really liked that old Fender Bandmaster I had originally, that as I grew older, I wanted to recapture that sound again. Right back where I started, almost 45 years ago and couldn't be happier.