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I found this at a pawnshop near my house. It's a 1982 Peavey T-25. The 2 tone knobs also work as a coil taps so as the turn the tone up past 7 it change's the pickups from humbucker to single coil.

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I think Carl Perkin's had a T-27


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Great video, very nice sounding twang with the Peavy.
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Oh man that was great.............thanks Mitch. :D
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Thanks! You can watch that whole show on youtube, It's pretty cool. In his will, Carl left that Peavey guitar to George.

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from http://www.jacksonsun.com/weekendplus/H ... ndex.shtml
The Beatle ... with a little help from his Jackson friends
By W. MATT MEYER
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When he heard George Harrison had died, Greg Perkins, the youngest son of longtime Harrison friend Carl Perkins, sat outside and reminisced about how his favorite Beatle loved gardening.
Greg's brother, Stan, was saddened but smiled as he thought of Harrison at his daddy's funeral. As Harrison stood to honor the fallen legend, he reached out and tapped the casket three times to reconnect with his old friend.
Jackson musician Wes Henley, who played and toured with rockabilly legend Perkins and his sons, grabbed his guitar and played his favorite Harrison tune, "Something."
These three Jackson residents felt a loss more acutely than most after the Beatle's death last month. While many were only fans of the Beatles guitarist, this trio became friends because of their relationship with Carl Perkins. Harrison, an icon to many musicians and songwriters, idolized the man these Jacksonians called father and friend.
"He said 'If it hadn't have been for your daddy, I never would have picked up a guitar,'" Stan, 48, told The Jackson Sun recently during an interview.
Lucky for Beatles fans all over the world, Harrison was a Perkins fanatic. The proof is endless. Harrison's playing on those early Beatles albums was styled after Perkins' sound.
In addition, the Fab Four recorded three of Perkins' songs on their major studio releases: "Honey Don't," "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby", the tune Harrison sang on "Beatles For Sale". That's more than any other artist whose songs they performed.
When the Beatles toured Hamburg, Germany, and greater fame waited just around the corner for them, Harrison, as a tribute, told everyone he met his name was "Carl," not George.
"No one knew him as George there," Stan said, recalling Harrison's pleasure at telling that story.
Harrison admired Perkins so much that when the Beatles performed in St. Louis in the mid-1960s, Harrison rented a car and drove south by himself. His mission, he would later tell Stan, was to find Carl Perkins.
"Now here's a 21-year-old Englishman driving an American-made car, probably on the wrong side of the road - I can just picture it - in search of Carl Perkins," Stan said. "He never did get to Jackson. He went a while and then turned around."
Even later in life, at Friar Park, Harrison's Victorian home in England's Henley-on-Thames, his personal jukebox was filled with Carl Perkins music from the heyday of Sun Records.
Henley and the two Perkins brothers met with Harrison several times in the last 15 years. The first time each met him was at his home in England in the 1980s.
In 1998, Harrison traveled to Jackson to pay his respects at Perkins' funeral. Two months after that, the trio spent a poignant evening with Harrison in Los Angeles, because he wanted to be close to Perkins again. That visit sealed a friendship they treasure more now after Harrison's death.


With George Harrison in England

Greg met him first, in London, during the filming of a 1986 special for Cinemax that is credited with rejuvenating Carl Perkins' career.
After writing the million-seller "Blue Suede Shoes" in 1956, extensive commercial success eluded Perkins for 30 years. But interest in his rockabilly music, fueled by the popularity of the Stray Cats in the early 1980s, brought some of music's greats together to honor him and put him back in the spotlight.
The special featured Harrison, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Dave Edmunds, the Stray Cats and Roseanne Cash - all paying tribute to Perkins' rockabilly sounds.
Greg remembers Harrison being very laid-back and personable during rehearsals before those sessions.
He always wanted to make everyone feel comfortable, Greg said.
"But when it came time to record," Greg, 42, said, recalling Harrison's professionalism, "you got your chords right."
Case in point: During the week of rehearsals, the band was practicing "Blue Suede Shoes." As they started their first take, Harrison stopped them immediately and told the Perkins brothers - and Carl - that they were playing it wrong.
"And he was right," Greg said. "For years, we had been hitting a different lick. We had started doing it the Elvis Presley way, because that's the way dad had started doing it."
In Perkins' version, there is a pause and drum fill at the end of each phrase in each verse. Elvis' version keeps time and flows into the chorus. Stan said Carl preferred the Elvis version because it was easier to do live.
"But George recognized the difference between the two, and he wanted to go back to the original way it was recorded," Greg said. "He was that big of a fan."
The next year, Carl, Stan, Greg, Henley and Tiptonville keyboardist Joe Schenk traveled to Harrisons's estate to spend a week with Harrison and perform at the 10-year anniversary party for Handmade Films, Harrison's production company.
The trio - Stan, Greg and Wes - saythey went from being fans of Harrison's to being friends during this trip to England.
"He was just like a friend that you've known forever. And he never showed that big-headedness that he could have," Greg said.
"Most of the time, your idols don't measure up to what you expect they are going to be," Stan said. "But when you meet one and he exceeds what you expect him to be, by more than you can imagine, that's the mark of a great man."
"He was genuine to the core," said Henley, 45. "He hugged us and absolutley made us feel like it was our home."
The country boys from Tennessee - who asked for and were given Coca-Cola to drink, despite a cellar crammed with expensive wines - were amazed that someone known as the "Quiet Beatle" was such a lively, joyful host.
"You could tell George loved to have a good time with people he felt comfortable with," Stan said. "He loved to eat and laugh and loved you to do the same."
Harrison's house was a converted monastery, and the more than 100 rooms were big and filled with oversized furniture. Intricately carved wood trim adorned every wall. The home's grounds were expansive and filled with ornamental gardens.
But he was ever the rebel and rascal. At his own company's party, Harrison poked fun at the stuffy Englishmen who spoke at the formal black-tie dinner.
"He'd say, 'Man, look at him, he's so full of it'," Stan said. "And George didn't even have on a tuxedo."
The band remembers playing every Carl Perkins song they knew that night, and a couple that they made up on the spot, Stan said, laughing. Harrison joined the band onstage as they played old-time rock 'n' roll music with his idol.

Carl Perkins' funeral

A little more than a decade later, Harrison would play again with Perkins - but this time, it was a tribute. Harrison chartered a plane and traveled alone from Los Angeles to Jackson to pay his respects to Perkins, who died in January 1998 after several strokes.
Stan was numb with grief at the time and said no one in the family was concerned with what "celebrities" would attend the funeral. They were afraid the event would become a circus act. He now says what Harrison did was remarkable.
"It took a lot of love for him to do what he did," Stan said. "You know he didn't know what he was getting into. That took a lot of love. But he was focused in on one thing, he was going to pay his respects to his friend."
Harrison had no intention of singing at the funeral. At the time, he was being treated for throat cancer and wasn't sure he could perform, Henley said. Perkins battled throat cancer, as well, and he was declared cancer free in 1993 after two years of treatments.
"When Wynonna (Judd) asked (Harrison) to get up, I could see a little terror," Henley said. "And I think that was more about, as he said later, he wasn't sure anything was going to come out. He hadn't been singing at all."
After being prodded by Wynonna several times, Harrison sprung to his feet. Touching Perkins' casket as he got up, he grabbed Ricky Skaggs' guitar and sang "Your True Love."
The song was released in 1957, when Harrison was been 14. Seven years later, it was one of many songs the Beatles played with Perkins after a June 1964 recording session at their Abbey Road studio.
Stan said Harrison kept his eyes on the family as he started playing, almost unsure if he should be performing. He looked like he wanted some reassurance that the family was OK with his impromptu tribute.
"He wanted to see our reaction," Stan said, referring to his family, brothers Greg and Steve and sister Debbie. Perkins' wife, Valda, did not attend the funeral. "I smiled at him, and it seemed like when I did that, and we might have all done it at the same time, it lifted his spirits and he wanted to sing."
Perkins' funeral, broadcast live on a local TV station, had been a solemn affair up to that point with religious songs and emotional performances from Wynonna, Skaggs, Billy Ray Cyrus and others. But when Harrison started playing the jangly blues song, the mood changed, Henley said.
"It made it more of a celebration about Carl rather than a grieving thing," Henley said.
"It was a fitting closing thing," Stan said. "And if my dad could have raised up out of that box right there, he would have smiled and said, 'Go, Cat, Go!' I guarantee you. That's the way he'd have wanted to go out."
After the funeral, Harrison wanted to see Perkins' home. The only people there were Valda and a woman who was watching the house. Harrison was taken inside through the kitchen. To his left, Perkins' black G&L guitar rested on a stand next to his living room easy chair.
"He knew that was dad's guitar and he went to pick it up - and the woman stopped him," Stan said. "She said 'Don't you touch that guitar.' And he turned to her and said he just wanted to hold it. She said, 'I'm sorry, you can't do it today.'"
"She didn't know who he was. She didn't know he was George Harrison, but it wouldn't have mattered to her. When she found out, it still didn't make no difference. He wasn't picking that guitar up that day. Not that day.

With George Harrison in Los Angeles

Two months after Perkins' funeral, the connection would reunite Harrison his Jackson friends for what turned out to be their final visit.
The Perkins' brothers and Henley were in Los Angeles to perform at a Perkins tribute at the House of Blues. The show featured Johnny Rivers, Dwight Yoakam, a reunited Stray Cats, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills and Steven Tyler. It was a great musical moment, but a bittersweet celebration for two sons who lost their father and a man who lost a close friend.
Harrison got word to the three that he wanted to see them again. He arrived at their hotel incognito and met them in the lobby alone. The four spent six or seven hours talking about Perkins and their favorite music.
"The visit was really about George wanting to grieve and be close to somebody who was close to Carl," Henley said. "He wanted to feel close to Carl."
"I knew how much he loved my daddy, and I knew how much I loved him and was already missing him," Stan said. "There was a connection there, and he just wanted to reminisce."
He also asked a lot of questions about Perkins' health: the throat cancer, the strokes, any other symptoms, what to look for. It was almost like Harrison had a premonition that his own days were numbered, Stan said.
"He felt like he was sicker than he was being told he was," Henley said. "He said they had found a spot on his left lung, and they said there was nothing to it. But he wasn't too sure." Doctors later found cancer there and in Harrison's brain.
In Los Angeles, Harrison was able to find closure with Perkins' death, and the boys in the band were able to repay Harrison for being at the funeral. To show thanks, Stan gave Harrison a guitar from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the custom-made Peavey that Perkins used on the Cinemax special. Harrison recognized it immediately.
"Tears started to roll down his cheek, and he was genuinely touched," Stan said.
Harrison also had gifts. A deeply spiritual man, Harrison wanted to share his faith with his friends because they were grieving. He gave each of the guys a book on Hare Krishna called "Autobiography of a Yogi."
Greg, who has read the whole book, said his dad and Harrison did talk about religion. Even though one attended Bemis United Methodist Church and the other was a mystical devotee of Eastern thought, Greg said they found common ground.
"They each came from different areas of the world, but what they used to talk about a lot was that both faiths were based on a belief in God," he said.

A close bond

Harrison and Perkins shared a bond. Each was a musical innovator.
Perkins took the blues from Memphis, the gospel from small country churches and the country from Nashville and mixed it all up into rockabilly music. Harrison built on what Perkins and other early rockers did to create a new kind of music - music that had integrity and honesty, but was fueled by passion and emotion.
In their later years, after fame peaked for one and after it became a nuisance for the other, they often returned to their roots and longed for the escape provided in playing what Stan calls, "good old feel-good music."
For three Jackson musicians, they are just glad they were along for the ride.
"I have to believe that the spirit of Carl Perkins and the spirit of George Harrison are pretty close together right now," Stan said. "'Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby' is getting played right now, and I bet George is teaching my daddy the chords to 'Something.'"
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Mitch I edited your post and added the full text. Remember, we don't allow links to other forums..........even if it's a George Harrison forum. :mrgreen:
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Oops,sorry Tony. Thanks for fixing my mistake,it won't happen again.
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I was a massive fan of an old cow-punk band from Shreveport back in the late 80s called The Picket Line Coyotes. They were fantastic live. The lead guitarist had a Peavey , and I thought it was one of the ugliest guitars around, and still is. I saw one very cheap on the 'bay a few months ago, so I had to add it to my collection; glad I did simply for the memories.

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indianation65 wrote:I was a massive fan of an old cow-punk band from Shreveport back in the late 80s called The Picket Line Coyotes. They were fantastic live. The lead guitarist had a Peavey , and I thought it was one of the ugliest guitars around, and still is. I saw one very cheap on the 'bay a few months ago, so I had to add it to my collection; glad I did simply for the memories.

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Haha,cool Peavey. Totally punk...Cheap and ugly does it!

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I really enjoyed that Mitch thanks for the post.
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