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I bought new vacuum tubes just last week. For guitar amplifiers vacuum tubes are still pretty common. If you want a simple, horribly inefficient circuit that sounds good with an electric guitar vacuum tubes are great, mostly because they overdrive a bit more gracefully than transistors.

For my daily band life my amp of choice is a Roland JC-120 for guitar (transistor amp) and a Eich T-500 (class D) for Bass.

Can't wait for class D to catch up to tubes, I really don't dig having to carry 30kg amps around.