All amps have mic's and are amplified by the PA so the real volume of the amp is not so high.
Zack Wylde's wall of doom are just a bunch of muck up empty cabinets with 3 "live" heads and cabs, same goes to almost any guitar player that has a big bad ass wall of speakers.
So the option bout your problem would be:
1- get your rig to run trhu the venue PA (get ready for mic headache)
2- get a louder amp (so you won't have tu crank it up all the way to get the volume you need) a tube amp I've heard are pretty loud, even the small ones.
3- some people hate this but, bottom line, is a good option, nowdays a lot of amp emulators (line 6 POD, digitech, boss GT8...blah, blah, blah), most of them pretty good and have output direct to PA, so you have lots of control over your sound and you don't have to carry a big bulky amp.
I know all this options are not always at reach but to be honest, there is not much more you can do
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