I'm a huge solid state fan but it's my personal fetish. For the longest time, my gigging amp was a 1962 SA-2 specifically because I planned to use it with modelers and needed a sterile tone and wanted to kick it around stage without breaking. Both types of amps have their uses but the truth of the matter is where you could get the APPROXIMATE tone of "legendary" amps, that doesn't factor in speaker response, sag, harmonics, feel etc. So whereas the prevailing opinion of this thread skews away from my personal gear preference (can take getting kicked sideways on stage and can gig the next day, not TOO crap sounding), I understand that tube amps are an artform.