What was your first amp?

[TubeStack]

Cool thread!

I first played electric guitar through my dad's solid state '70s Yamaha 4x10 combo, which had a decent clean sound but an absolutely horrible distorted sound. Pic from Reverb (not the actual amp, but same model):

So, in search of The Sound Of Rock + something I could use in my bedroom, I got one of these as a present. The TubeStack™ distortion sounded glorious to me:

Later, in order to have something big and loud enough for a band, I mail-ordered a Rockman Distortion Generator up to Canada, from the back of a guitar magazine, and used it in front of the big Yamaha combo, which actually sounded pretty good with the DiMarzio Super Distortion I'd had put into my 80s BC Rich:

And then, finally, I worked all summer as a custodian's assistant and saved enough money for a JCM900 Marshall half-stack. This was my amp for the next 10 years, through many bands and gigs.

Here I am at age 15 playing outside my high school with it:

 

[Bob Zaod]

I dont remember my first amp but I remember the first amp I jammed with somebody with. It was called a Max12 and I cant even find a pic online of one.

 

[FuzzyAce]

My very first was a tiny little Fender solid-state amp. Not sure what model.
2nd was a Gorilla GG-25. Big step up.
The first "real" amp I bought for myself was a Crate Vintage Club 50 combo.

 

[-BOOGIEMAN-]

My first one came with a 335 style guitar. Can’t remember the brand but it was very small and only had a volume and tone knob. Got a 10 watt Peavey Backstage after that.

 

[EOengineer]

I was 12 or 13 when my uncle sold me a crappy Fender Stage Lead combo for $10. Up until that point I had found a way to rig up the Teisco Tulip to use rca cables so I could plug it into my bedroom stereo, which also sounded awful.

I’ll never forget the day I discovered the overdrive channel. It changed everything for me. I finally started to get how this plinky sounding instrument might make all those big, crazy noises I heard Slash and Kurt Cobain make.

When I was 15 the channels stopped switching. I took the amp out back and smashed it with a baseball bat as was the style at the time.