I take they were all tube, am I correct?

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Hendrix experimented with various amplification systems, but, to use Eric Barrett's words: "It was 99 percent Marshall." The guitarist's route to the Marshall stacks that eventually became his familiar backline was a process of elimination. He reportedly owned a Silvertone amp and a matching 2x12 cab during his days in Tennessee in '61 and '62, but he mainly borrowed amps for gigs.
From '65 through '66, Hendrix's mainstay was a Fender Twin Reverb. He reportedly sniffed out Orange amps at Pink Floyd's December 1967 "Christmas on Earth" show in London, and again at his very last concert. Apparently, he couldn't get the sounds he wanted from them. Fender Twin Reverb
Also in 1967, Buck Munger solidified a five-year contract (which actually lasted 14 months) between Hendrix and Sunn amplifiers after the Monterey Pop Festival. Sunn agreed to supply the entire Experience with anything they needed, in exchange for Hendrix's research and development input.

Hendrix started out with a 100-F cabinet, loaded with one JBL D-130 in the bottom and an L-E 100-S driver horn in the top. There was not much midrange - Munger described the tone as "almost a surfer sound" - and Hendrix combined the cab with a stack of Marshall 4x12s to get a blend. Later, the Sunn setup included up to five Coliseum P.A. tops - altered for guitar at 120 watts RMS each - with ten speaker cabinets loaded with two JBL D-130s each.
"We then went to four 12" Eminence speakers at Jimi's request, and we also took his advice that the minimum acceptable power at that time was 100 watts," recalls Munger.

For the Experience tour that began in February '68, Hendrix used Fender Dual Showmans and Marshalls, and then added 100-watt Sunn Coliseum P.A. tube amps, plus an array of Sunn 2x15 or horn-loaded cabs. Stage photos from this period show quite an assortment of Sunn, Fender, and Marshall gear, but Hendrix soon severed his relationship with Sunn and began using Marshalls almost exclusively. "Jimi was used to the big numbers," explains Munger, "and when he turned his Sunn amps up, he got a lot of noise he didn't like."
Hendrix's Marshall of choice was the 100-watt Super Lead driving two 4x12 cabs, and his standard backline would quickly grow to three Super Leads and six 4x12s. He plugged his guitar into one amp, and linked it to the others by running a cable from an adjacent input (the Super Leads had four inputs) to the second amp's input jack, and so on.
Because Hendrix performed with his amp settings nearly always on full, his systems wore out fast.
This was a long way from the band's humble beginnings, when Hendrix and Noel Redding shared one miked 100-watt Marshall during the sessions for their first album.

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Copying and pastin from a website i have already viewed isnt exactley helping

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....Read it again then Einstein and answer your own question.....

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It might take awhile to sink in....

Obviously....We'll come back in a day n see how his going....

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To answer your question--Yes.

He may have used a solid state amp somewhere along the line, but I can't find where it's documented.

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You may have a hard time finding that info as a large number of amps made and used back then were tubes. Yes, there were soldistate amps, but most if not all sound like crap. Today's soldstate amps sound much better and sometimes sound better than some tube amps.

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Ahh and I meant marshalls, didnt read anything about the Marshalls being tube or solid state, saw the sunn amp thing the first time

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