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I had a Peavey Bandit back in the '80s. Great little amp! I loaned it to the keyboard player in the band and never saw it again.
About 30 years ago I gave up guitar and sold off all my stuff. 10 Years later I got back into it and bought this because I saw the guitar hanging on the wall at a local music store:
Ibanez Artcore AFS75TD, Peavey Valveking VK112, and a Zoom GFX-8.
I had not had a tube amp since... Actually I'm not sure I'd ever owned a tube amp (though I'd borrowed and rented many). My main amp for years was a solid-state 100W Westbury that I used with Digitech programmable distortion and delay for all my '80s hair band needs:
That little Peavey amp was jaw-dropping for me because it had been SO long since I'd been in the room with real tube distortion. That little Peavey is responsible for an expensive tone quest that went on for years!
A while later I ditched the Zoom and the Valveking and got this. A Joe Satriani signature Peavey JSX:
That was 2008 or so and it was the first thing I ever bought from Sweetwater (via Ebay). I had no idea about Sweetwaters throwing candy in boxes at the time and when my daughter was there as I unboxed it she got very sad that I wouldn't let her eat the candy that some (perceived) random Ebay person had thrown in the box. She's 23 now and still reminds me about that.
That JSX was glorious, but in short order I also had a 1964 Fender Bassman in my quest for Brian Setzer tone, and I started building my own amps (Champ clone and Deluxe tone). Around this time I remembered why I hated 2x12 combos because that JSX weighed about 638 pounds. I ended up selling all the big amps and got an Axe-FX and never looked back. I've had the Ultra, the II, and now a III and really have no need for a big amp any more, which nothing to explain the collection of Guild amps I seem to have accumulated.
About 30 years ago I gave up guitar and sold off all my stuff. 10 Years later I got back into it and bought this because I saw the guitar hanging on the wall at a local music store:
Ibanez Artcore AFS75TD, Peavey Valveking VK112, and a Zoom GFX-8.
I had not had a tube amp since... Actually I'm not sure I'd ever owned a tube amp (though I'd borrowed and rented many). My main amp for years was a solid-state 100W Westbury that I used with Digitech programmable distortion and delay for all my '80s hair band needs:
That little Peavey amp was jaw-dropping for me because it had been SO long since I'd been in the room with real tube distortion. That little Peavey is responsible for an expensive tone quest that went on for years!
A while later I ditched the Zoom and the Valveking and got this. A Joe Satriani signature Peavey JSX:
That was 2008 or so and it was the first thing I ever bought from Sweetwater (via Ebay). I had no idea about Sweetwaters throwing candy in boxes at the time and when my daughter was there as I unboxed it she got very sad that I wouldn't let her eat the candy that some (perceived) random Ebay person had thrown in the box. She's 23 now and still reminds me about that.
That JSX was glorious, but in short order I also had a 1964 Fender Bassman in my quest for Brian Setzer tone, and I started building my own amps (Champ clone and Deluxe tone). Around this time I remembered why I hated 2x12 combos because that JSX weighed about 638 pounds. I ended up selling all the big amps and got an Axe-FX and never looked back. I've had the Ultra, the II, and now a III and really have no need for a big amp any more, which nothing to explain the collection of Guild amps I seem to have accumulated.