I don't remember that...give me the highlights, please.
Is Peavey back?
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I don't remember that...give me the highlights, please.
JamesPaul
Well-known member
The 80's are eternal! This is why so many are always seeking the 80's JBJ's. Those winds pulled some of the 80's right in with them. The wax potting sealed the 80's inside them forever.
soulforger
New member
I have always been a Peavey guy, I've had and loved my Marshalls, some Laney, had a few Mesa amps but never bonded with one...but Peavey? 5150/6505 series, XXX, JSX and Classic, I love them all! Peavey Wolfgangs, HP Specials and Vandenbergs, I have had owned multiples of all three and all are wicked, so I was very disappointed when they stopped making guitars in the USA, but the European made HP2 and the new Vandenbergs seem just as high quality (made in Czechia I believe). Peavey also aquired Budda amps some years ago, not sure of their current fate but those things are killer!
JamesPaul
Well-known member
From what I remember, the show mostly went as they usually do. The boss receives transparent feedback from the employees and they try to make improvements based on the feedback. There is also an end part where the boss meets with the employees the boss worked with, and does something to help out their personal situations. All of this did happen in the Peavey episode. During the editing time, was when Peavey made the decision to start manufacturing in China. Unlike most of the other episodes, they edited a little longer and ended with revisiting some of the employees, and they had found out they were being laid off or transitioned to some other area. This is the part that, I think obviously, left Peavey in a very bad light.
JamesPaul
Well-known member
True in the Metal world, I think every venue with a backline has a Bandit 112 & Classic 30 and Nashville is full of Peaveys. Still they do not get the press that all the other manufactures do. As 80's notes "...best kept secret to..."
The Invective is mostly a 5150/6505 incorporating all the new features Peavey developed in their other amps during 2010's. But where are we seeing Invectives?
Artie (vBulletin is protesting any more hypertext in my post) has 6 solid Peavey guitars and he was not sure Peavey was still doing anything significant.
I have no answers, however I do have 8'x8'x8' of storage space filled with some very versatile Peavey amplifiers. At least half of those were acquired for 50%, or less, of MAP because someone was bailing on Peavey.
Artie
Peaveyologist
The guy was a long time Peavey employee. He didn't like where the quality was going. He said so on the show. Then he revealed that he got a way better employment offer from a different company.
The "Boss" said, hang with us. We'll promote you, and listen to your ideas.
He turned down the other job offer based on that. A month, (or so later), he was fired. Peavey said . . . "layed off."
The other job opportunity was gone.
That was it, in a nutshell.
soulforger
New member
I still see 5150/6505 and JSX 120w heads come up for sale locally for $500-600, XXX even less, and the Classics, whether 20, 30, or 50w, I have never had a problem dialling in a sound on any of these amps, indeed, they all sound good no matter where you set the knobs lol, I also love that James Brown designed the JSX and XXX to take either 6L6 or EL34/KT77 tubes. I loved that Triple X with KT77! The Invective is the signature amp of Misha Mansoor and is the amp he uses in Periphery, he is hugely influential in the metal/prog metal world so I assume there are some others using it as well by now.
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
10x what I paid for my Peavey Decade used in the 80s. I don't know what I was thinking, but the thing didn't disappoint. It sounds really fucking good. I would suggest keeping your eye on the used market. I bet there are plenty of people who bought them for nostalgia, who will dump them once the buzz is gone.
Well, that isn't great, is it? Was this before or after Heartley died?
Rex_Rocker
Well-known member
I remember it being bigger than that? Didn't a bunch of people get laid off and a facility closed because they moved production to China? Or was that outside of that episode? I don't remember.
marcello252
New member
Please, don't tell me.... I still crying about the fact I sold my late 80s JBJ when nobody knew, nor me, about JBJ thing, such a mistake, I bought other JBs after but none sounded the same in the same guitar
Artie
Peaveyologist
I'm not sure. He wasn't in the show, so possibly after.
I think you're right. Even hard core fans like me were pissed.
I kinda hated to sell my Windsor, but a 100 watt, high gain tube amp, isn't a particularly good "bedroom" amp. The volume control had two settings: off and "call the cops." :headbang:
Butch Snyder
ObsoleteChickenPickingologist
I think the best stuff Peavey ever made were the Solo Series amps. The Bandit, Special, and Renown. Phenomenal amps, especially for the time. I still love them. Then Peavey "upgraded" them to Bandit 65, Special 130, and Renown 400. I had a Special 130 and still wish I had it. Also loved the Stereo Chorus 400 and Stereo Chorus 212. Those years and products were the best, IMHO. I also owned a Peavey Classic 30, Classis 50 410 and Classic 50 212. Those were great amps, but not compared to the Solo Series amps.
Artie
Peaveyologist
I've always GAS'ed for one of those. Didn't they come in tweed?
Artie
Peaveyologist
I had one, but it was stolen. Never do a wi-fi garage door. It serves no useful purpose and allows 12-year-old "hackers" access to your house.
Butch Snyder
ObsoleteChickenPickingologist
They were a tweed pattern on tolex. They weren't a lacquered cloth tweed like Fenders.
Artie
Peaveyologist
Ok. But they looked cool.
JamesPaul
Well-known member
I can claim I used mine at 4 shows. I am cheating though, as it was the same, annual, 80's themed, pink benefit show.
JamesPaul
Well-known member
I ended up with more than my fair share of them. I will ping you when I get my part shelf out of storage.
