Okay - gonna give this retro pics party a laugh with an oldy … yes, that’s a tie, it was the 80s
… sadly i was blinking (or could’ve been just hiding from the fact that there was an audience completely in shock at my improvised Frippertronics lite )
Things of note, there’s a tiny diy oscillator on top of the effects ‘rack’ - it only has a pitch knob, it allowed me to feed a signal into the Boss RSD-10 to double its ‘loop’ length to 4s with tolerable/desirable grain level (the pitch input was for the sampling part of the delay unit) - it would be a few years before i grabbed a Digitech Time Machine 7.6 and expanded Lexicon JamMan.
Also delighted to have bought and paid up for that beautiful japanese Ibanez Artist semi with my school paper-round job, my first proper guitar after a Kay SG copy and a Squier Strat. Still got the guitar, sadly not played nearly enough, sadder still the hair wasn’t so long lasting 
Wanna see those retro gear shots but especially any embarrassing old playing shots y’all might be tempted to hold back on … 20thCentury FTW
Ah nostalgia, I miss those days - everything was simpler … sadly not too many gear pictures - this is a quick picture of a print I was showing my son recently - might try to find a few others from the analogue archive