Ordinarily I would say Peavey = crap. But because of this -- http://www.freenortheast.com/red.php (you will have to scroll down) -- I will say diarrhea.

Their early stuff was great.

my first amp was a Peavy, way back in 91. i liked it cause it gave me this real nice, growling, Sepultura-esque, distortion. in retrospect though, maybe that was really just the voice of Dick Cheney being channeled through my blood-red amp.

-jeremy

biZ! you have made me to see that adidas, they give all their money to fasc...republicans! what am i to wear for shoes??!?!?!

peavey, it is crap, but it is not crap when you are the 13yrs old montanan with no money, but want to play bass! then you buy p--vey tnt130 to rock the 130 'peavey watts' (= 10 ampeg watts).

but it is crap! no doubt! no gout!

speaking of gout....

my first amp was a Peavy, way back in 91. i liked it cause it gave me this real nice, growling, Sepultura-esque, distortion. in retrospect though, maybe that was really just the voice of Dick Cheney being channeled through my blood-red amp.

haha. when i was 15, i thought the peavey studio pro could sound like bob mould. i don't think it really did.

Yes, I too try to make love many times to the Peavey, especially to the TNT! She was all I had, but she was never good lovemaking. I think this is the thing about the Peavey. Is great that in the 80s she was cheap. But I never felt anything but remorse about having her and only her to make love to.

My brother, he struggled more than I did with a T-15, who always had terrible intonation, but whose bridge was useless to allow for the fixing of this problem. Then he plays this always out of tune guitar through a Destroyer...

Peavey amps in their names always captured something essential about the experience of playing them. I wanted to blow up the TNT. My brother wanted to destroy the destroyer. Our friend had a Bandit that he could get no one to steal (or was she Bandit because she stole, from the dreams of teenager, the possibility of good sound?!).

So, thank you, Peavey, for being an option. But you were the only option. And you did not sound good at all.

I say to you now, for giving of the profits earned from the monies of little dudes and girls to the Republican party, you are not even solid turd!

everybody had that fucking TNT, even me, and i don't even play bass. there's really no way around that thing. it just appeared on my doorstep one morning.

i have a peavey "rage 15" that i still use as a practice amp

CRAP

Nein, Schwein-Gott Italiener! Ich leiben meinen Peavey TNT.

Neinen Scheisse.

Peavey amps in their names always captured something essential about the experience of playing them. I wanted to blow up the TNT. My brother wanted to destroy the destroyer. Our friend had a Bandit that he could get no one to steal (or was she Bandit because she stole, from the dreams of teenager, the possibility of good sound?!).

si! haha! bandit!

decade: you can play with the knobs for ten years, and you will not get a good sound!

deuce: is worth two dollars

5150: if you can swim from puerto rico (51st state) to hawaii, and crawl onto sandy beach w/water in your ears, and then you listen to latter-day van halen through an am radio, it will sound like this amp

VTM: VomitinTheMouth

audition: audio tin

classic: like being made to be sick by eating cla(ms).

studio pro: for professional studio musicians only!

I had a Peavey practice amp until about 2 weeks ago. I gave it away to a local music store to use for in-store lessons. I couldn't stand having it in my house anymore.

Maybe if its various knobs said "treble," "midrange," and "bass" instead of "soak," "saturation," and "malaise" I would have kept it.

I replaced it with a 20-watt mid-60s Airline amp. The knobs on this amp say "volume" and "tone."

Peavey = CRAP.
Airline, and the Airline family of brands that include Stella, Supro, and Valco = NOT CRAP

Well, there's the angle adjustment on one or another of the Peavey guitars--a friend owned it; I don't remember which model, but I set it up for him--which made my setup process easier. So not crap on that.

There's the VMP, which I don't know much about personally, but seems to have a good rep. Not crap on that.

There's the sound and feel of the guitars. Crap.

There's the sound of the little solid state amps. Crap.

More years ago than I care to admit, I bought a little Peavey practice amp used on a friend's behalf. I turned it over to him. It fried itself. Crap.

Then there's Biznono's link. Explosive diarrhea.