Can I get a: "Looks like a white belt, feels like a black one."?

Sorry, I was reading some "Zen Guitar" book in the loony bin. I'm going to the brewery, you knobs.

Arise again, old thread!!

Has anyone ever heard a Peavey Road Master? From looking at them I'd think they'd be extremely loud.

I know a guy who will sell me 2 of them for $250.

I remember hearing that someone in Sonic Youth played one. That's about all I know though.

Pure L wrote:I know a guy who will sell me 2 of them for $250.

Do it. Execellent head.

vockins wrote:

Pure L wrote:I know a guy who will sell me 2 of them for $250.

Do it. Execellent head.

Seconded.

The Butcher, she is also a fine, fine head of these Peaveys. And this VTM-60. So nice!

i bought a peavey mark IV bass head a couple of weeks ago. i actually sold an old ampeg combo so i could buy it. it's big heavy and kind of ugly, but i like it. but the logo... it's so crap.

oh, i also heard that sonic youth used a similar bass head for a while, although that doesn't help me because i don't really want my bass sounding like theirs.

Anyone played through one of these monsters? 400 all tube watts! Surely this will not equal 40 of the ampeg watts?

You could take all the electronics out and comfortably keep a guinea pig in that box.



http://www.classic400.com/

madmanmunt wrote:Anyone played through one of these monsters? 400 all tube watts! Surely this will not equal 40 of the ampeg watts?

You could take all the electronics out and comfortably keep a guinea pig in that box.

http://www.classic400.com/

That's a Peavey?

If so, it looks like they finally managed to nail down some decent-looking knobs.

For anyone who's following my bump of this thread. I got the 2 roadmasters yesterday. Talked him down to $220. One isn't working but the other seems fine.

I have broken a Peavey! Volume was half the way up and I started to play the guitar with a drumstick, now it only makes noise sometimes.

I also know a guy with a Peavey that sounds good, who knew?

Still, crap for having a big broken amp in my parents garage that never sounded too good.

The legacy of Peavy amplification will always look to me as so:

In the fall of 1993 my band was touring the US (the usual independently booked show by an overstaffed Canadian band that no one gave a shit about but we were fine with that). In Tempe, Arizona we found that the other band on the bill, Witz End, had perfectly feathered haircuts, a drum kit of at least 18 pieces and a guitarist with a Peavy stack. But not, say, two 4x12 cabs and head but a stack of pawnshop irregulars starting with a 4x12, then 3 combos of diminishing proportions arranged in a teetering pyramid of embarrassment. ALL Peavy. The man was loyal to his brand. In his defence, by this time Eddie VH had been a long time Peavy advocate and I suspect the 5150 or whatever was not an affordable option to the working man of Arizona hard rock cover bands. Christ, 14 years have gone by and when someone says Peavy all I see the picture of this guy's rig in my head.

Memories...

5150 and 5150 II are decent, as are their blues/tweed type jammers. Best of all are their monstrous old-school bass heads. Fuckin' tremendous. I have none of these, but have had a fretless 4-string Peavey Foundation since 1993 and it is still a sweetheart.

Still, eew. Pe**ey.