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What kind of guitar, and what kind of amp?  Anything else in the signal chain?  Any stomp boxes or effects pedals?

We open every show with a rendition of that one.  It's way too much fun to play.

If you have an existing monitor/keyboard/mouse, look at the Mac Minis.  They're little aluminum cubes and start at around $600.  You can do a memory upgrade yourself for about 10% of what Apple will charge, too.

Tubes are cheap.  It's labor that costs.   I'm guessing you've got 12AX7s in the preamp, and they run about $20 new.   I don't know what would happen if you run it all the way out, but I would expect "not much."   A tube is just a great big transistor that passes current according to an input voltage, so it's not as if you will blow something up or hurt anything on the other side of the amp or input circuits.  If it goes all the way out, all it means is that no current will reach the other side.  It will essentially be "off" or in standby mode.  And since we are talking about the pre-amp tubes, those are something you could replace yourself if you were inclined.  They generally don't need biasing, although if you are driving them to crazy levels they might.

I recently bought a Kustom V50 and it is also obnoxiously loud.  I don't have to drive the tubes to get it to painful levels, and I'm fortunate that my practice spaces are pretty noise complaint safe.    I would like to overdrive it for stages where the amp is running through the PA, though, so I can turn it down and still get that "loud sound."  One of the benefits of this amp is that you can re-tube the power side and not have to re-bias anything, so it's something I can do at home on my bench.

You might hold out for time travel or worm-holes to another dimension or something, though.   Anything is possible.

I'll bet he's got some great information for laptops, too, at some links about to show up somewhere....

I've got the same set of KRK monitors.   All I can say is "nice choice." 

Peter Gabriel: "Here Comes the Flood"

And oddly enough, that happy little German ditty "99 Luftbaloons" is about nuclear armageddon, if you're interested.

Put it on the clean channel, turn the "drive" all the way down, put all the EQ's knobs in the middle position, and turn the reverb and echo knobs to off.  Then turn the mid EQ down some.  Use the master to control your volume, and slowly adjust your reverb up.  Mix to taste.

This isn't a particularly good amp if you want acoustic tones, but you should be able to take out much of the modeling effects if you tweak it a bit.

I love Spotify.  It's the first free music service I've used that gets it right.  I like Rhapsody, too, but that's only because their offices are directly above mine, and they have live shows in there every now and again.  So I want them to do really well

I love Port Townsend.  The entire peninsula is fantastic.

If you ever make it up this way, you can crash with me.  I get a hotel room at the festival so you can share that, too.  I'm usually working and hardly ever there.