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[ajish4]

A lone voice in the dark for my Peavey T-40 basses!

[weemac]

A lone voice in the dark for my Peavey T-40 basses!

Don't say that! Although mine went long ago, I really miss it. A very underated bass....

Eden.

[rickenbrother]

A lone voice in the dark for my Peavey T-40 basses!

Turn a light on, T!

[ajish4]

You're right Eden, I now recall you've said that you liked them before, it's good not to be alone! ...I've ended have FOUR of the little buggers, but I will be selling one of them soon.

I was guilty myself, I ALWAYS assumed PEAVEY was a bottom line starter bass. I guess there are many, many others out there that feel the same, hence its low resale price. ALTHOUGH, I've seen some hit the $500.00 to $700.00 mark recently!

Joey, you are up early man!

[whojamfan]

Ricks are nice, but there are alot of great guitars/basses out there these days. I love them all. Its not like 30 years ago when Fender, Gibson and Rickenbacker were pretty much your choices.

I think that is the main reason you have your Fender, Gibson and Rickenbacker purist's these days, Alot of people bought them grew up with them, swear by them,and refuse to believe that something else could be as good or better for less money.

Life is to short. I like to experiment.

Just for the record, "Forum 51- The Quest for Tone" is one of my favorite forum topics. You do a great job Mike.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. After spending many years behind the counter at a big, privately owned music stores, I've had the priveledge to play, and hear others play a wide variety of instruments. It's really funny when you come back from the stockroom and hear somebody wailing away on a guitar with huge tone, just to discover they are playing a 250 dollar guitar through an equally priced amp. Tone is so much more the driver than the car, how many guitarists and/or bassplayers have you seen with 4 grand worth of gear and a 10 cent tone? Me, too many.

Tony-The Peavey T series instruments were, and still are, the best bang for the buck ever made, IMHO. They were solid, tonefull, and had features no other instruments had. They played well, were built well, and had a good, well rounded sound. Their looks, as with all others, were a matter of preference. They were very inexpensive for an American made instrument, and allowed many strugging musicians the opportunity to have a quality instrument without breaking the bank.

Cheyenne, thank you for the kind words. I'm hoping we can breathe some life back in to this section and talk about the things that we like without people, who know nothing about them, making offensive comments that aren't productive.

[wayang]

What about inoffensive comments that aren't productive? Ban those and I'll have no reason to post anymore...

(...sniff...)

[whojamfan]

First of all, I'm not in the banning business. Aside from the fact that I cannot ban anyone from anything, I'm referring to something completely different.

Here's what I'm talking about;
when someone starts a thread about a non Rick instrument to get the opinion of someone who's used one, usually someone who has either never owned or used one makes irrelevant and hatefull statements about it's looks or whatever. This has a negative affect on people trying to exchange ideas and experiences that are related to the music we love.

Say someone asks about an odd piece of gear that you happen to own and like for what it does, and as you scroll down to respond, some arrogant twit has gone on about what a piece of junk it is, even though they probably have never played it and most definitely never owned it. How comfortable does that make those who have an educated opinion and/or own the item feel about responding to the post?
As a result, we have now made the starter of the thread sorry they'd bothered, and anyone who could be productive unwilling due to being made sport of. Result, poster goes elsewhere to discuss things with a bad taste in their mouths, and no information was discussed or shared. To me, that is unacceptable in a place such as this that has a plethora of musicians from all styles,experiences, and walks of life, that are ready and willing to share their knowledge and experiences with others. I just don't want to stifle this process, but rather see it flourish in the exchange of information and experiences.

Again, I'm not in the banning business, and an inoffensive comment cannot be counterproductive as it would be an opinion designed to make a point about the topic, even if it is just humour. Feel free to comment, good or bad, all I'm saying is if you think something you've never owned or played sucks, don't poison the thread with it.

And BTW, I love a good joke, or even a bad one for that matter.

[Ric O'Sound]

A lone voice in the dark for my Peavey T-40 basses!

Don't say that! Although mine went long ago, I really miss it. A very underated bass....
Eden.

In the very first "real" band I was in, one of our guitarists had bought a T-40 because he wanted to start playing bass. It was a lot cheaper than a Rick, Fender or Music Man at the time, so I guess that was his motivation. As the bassist in the band, I was allowed to test drive it at rehearsal (I guess he wanted my "approval" that he'd made a good choice). Well, I pooh-poohed it at the time because I was sort of a gear snob in my youth (I was playing a Sting Ray and a 4001) but I grudgingly had to admit to myself that it was a versatile bass with fairly decent tone. I just didn't want to admit it to anyone else. The only thing I honestly didn't like about it was that as soon as you strapped it on, it was like someone had just hung an anvil around your neck. And I had thought my Rick was relatively heavy. But that Peavey...sheesh.

[paologregorio]

I paid $148 for a single pickup Silvertone guitar with the amp in the case that was in brand new condition, down to having the original guitar cable; the only flaw was a broken case strap handle. That guitar, as cheap as it was, has a huge tone; very fat and warm, all out of proportion to the physical size of the guitar, or the price I paid for it.

[whojamfan]

Wow, Paul, I had the double pickup model with the tube amp with tremelo and footswitch in it. Very cool sounding and playing guitar. I later traded it for a Mosrite, which was a lot more durable, and sounded better for what I wanted to do with it. Aaaah, the 80s, when all this stuff was just old **** to the music stores and they were happy to blow it out, as everyone wanted to be Van Halen.

[paologregorio]

Wow, Paul, I had the double pickup model with the tube amp with tremelo and footswitch in it. Very cool sounding and playing guitar. I later traded it for a Mosrite, which was a lot more durable, and sounded better for what I wanted to do with it. Aaaah, the 80s, when all this stuff was just old **** to the music stores and they were happy to blow it out, as everyone wanted to be Van Halen.

Sweet!!

I found mine in `92 at the "Pack Rat Pawn" warehouse thrift store in Rapid city, South Dakota when Meatball, my brother Mike and I were there for the Sturgis Motorcycle rally.