I love “Brown Sugar” and “Honkey Tonk Woman” They are just bloody good tracks!

Amps are all well and good – Tubes or not. But the overall tone you get out of your amp depends on more then just the make, model and pedal you use. The sound is effected by the plectrum, The type of strings, the way you hit them, how you mute and what guitar you play. Personally I play a Gibson SG through a Marshall AVT100 Combo amp and I have noticed that if you keep all the same settings and give it to another guitarist to play it sounds completely different. And I agree that it is good to embrace modern equipment but every guitarist is looking for that killer sound, the tone that makes the floor shake or the squeel that shatters windows. We all just have a different way of finding it and older style amps are some times better at delivering.