Wow I'm getting old.. I remember when the JC120 came out. It was popular with jazz players and had a nice reverb IIRC. In Australia back then the rock apes were using Marshalls, Lenard (http://lenardaudio.com/history.html). Not everything made it out here, small population and a long way to ship it. I saw the occasional Hi-Watt (quite rare here) and pedals were in their early stages (MXR phase 45/90, Electro harmonics memory man delay (early TC ? I think)), and just as rare Ampeg. a few Wasp amps and from my home town BAEZ amps (http://www.ozvalveamps.org/baez.htm), now these were ahead of their time, very Marshall "like" amp but better (in the day), first amp I saw with a master vol. I used to hang out at the BAEZ Music shop every Wednesday arvo an chat with Mick Sampson and his wife (I was 15 ish). My English teacher at high school had a BAEZ bass head which I used to borrow, sounded great for guitar. Also these were the first amps I'd seen with PCBs. This is when I initially had the idea of separate tube preamp and poweramp (along came ADA many years later doing just that). I suggested the idea to Mick but he wanted to build heads. A bit off the track, this is all pre hair metal