1. I still have a Backstage plus 35 I bought new in 1984. Still in great shape, looks, and sound wise.

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2. I miss my Peavey Renown 400. My neighbors really enjoyed the 210 watts of earth shaking, ear piercing power.

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3. I met Scott Puteski, original Marylin Manson guitarist. He told me the guitars on the entire first album were recorded through a Peavey Bandit.

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4. Be hilarious if he just had bought containers full of em and is banking

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5. LOL, I actually gave away my old 80's Peavey amp because I never liked the sound.
   I guess I was too impatient to clean out my closet?

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6. I hope they all break so you can move on. Amps don't matter.

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7. I watched a video where Homme was talking about recording Song for the Deaf (I think), and there were some studio shots of a line of something like 40 different combo amps. I have a hard time believe that the "secret sauce" comes from any one particular amp or device, and it's more likely a combination of a number of different amps. I have the feeling that Homme said the Decade was the secret amp as a way to joke about the whole mystique around musicians that have some specific piece of gears, and then see if everyone goes out and buys some really amp for a bunch of money… it's seems more a like a prank than anything, as it seems like his sense of humor. I remember Adam Jones of Tool saying how he hated when gear heads would come up to him and ask him the year of his Les Paul (believing it was some special vintage guitar that had a special tone), and he would is was a '93 (some something like that), and they would be like "oh", with a sense of disappointment, lol. People get too hung up on the idea of "special" and "secret" tones.

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8. I still have my peavey decade from the early 80's, my first guitar I got around the same time was a global les paul copy from service merchandise. not the best guitar but it got me booted up. I used to put 2x 6 volt lantern batteries in the back of the decade dc in and I could carry it anywhere and jam out.

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9. Fran, is it possible the photo is simply reversed? PS- Let’s not forget John Deacon's one-off, secret sauce, black box for supposedly every Queen song guitar ever recorded. PSS how about the mini SG? Now That’s some secret sauce.PSSS Digging your outro ditty.

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10. I've played through most of Peavey's single speaker combos, and I agree totally that they share a common preamp circuit (or close enough to be negligible). Most of the sound difference between them was due to the speaker and cabinet size. It would be an interesting experiment to do a tonal comparison of the Decade and Bandit amps with the same speaker/cab configuration and same amp settings. Other than a slight difference in volume, I think they'll sound pretty close.

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11. I had one of these back then and it was also battery powered so I could take it out camping with us, as teenagers we packed our cars and did that a lot on weekends to party and get out of the city. and back then people didn't GLAMP or haul generators around. playing a Les Paul plugged in out in the woods by a fire was not the norm for most kids. I wasn't into cowboy chords on an acoustic back then. today I would just bring up a 12 string, that would be fine. I don't envy the young today, you got cameras everywhere now. I was recently remembering some of our old hangouts and partying in the city (no deserts near here), places along railroad yards..big crowds, doing doughnuts with out beat up old muscle cars..no way that happens today in those places I was at.

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12. the decade was used for the bass sound on songs for the deaf not Josh's guitar tone. its the fuzzy bass sound on that one QOTSA album with the volume way down so the sound is only just coming out of the speaker. you can't play it at a usable volume and get the sound the speaker will just crap out

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13. I had a bandit 65,to replace a twin reverb in the 80s and it was loud,very loud ,but thats all

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14. I had a teal stripe Envoy 110, complete with spring reverb. I was awfully fond of that thing.

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15. Wow, just saw this video in my feed. What a blast from the past. My dad owns a peavey TnT combo bass amp with a 15" speaker in it. Also have a peavey Powered mixer that has to be from the 70s. It's a 7 channel with the wooden handles on the side. That thing still works somehow. Lol. I can't imagine anyone using those peavey solid state amps for Studio Recordings. At least not for high gain Rock or Metal guitars. I think they were made to use for practice amps or live shows. Of course I could be wrong but the only peavey I would put a mic in front of for riff recording would be a 5150.

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16. I have no idea what bands or people she is talking about. I'm old . She is smart though

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17. I got both those amp, backstage and bandit 65. Use them all the time

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18. it's the small speaker gettin the tone. brian may knew too 😀

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