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BB plays a lab 5 which has a quality onboard compressor, he also uses a Fender twin. With his style, it's more about the fingers than the amp.
Depends what type and range of sounds you want I suppose but when you start getting into distortion things become complicated. I've heard an old peavy bandit sound good once, in a live band scenario, and I've also had the lovely pleasure (not) of being in a band with two guitarists who used very poor sounding valve amps, so I appreciate the differences are not always black and white. However, in the main, valves trump it for me.