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What's this swanky-looking Peavey?

#6
Yes, that's a Peavey T-40. My first bass, one of the heaviest singleneck basses ever made.

Wanna have a good laugh? (Joe Nerve, where are you?)

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That's me in 1987. I had like one year of playing. My left pinky didn't work and I used to wear the instrument much lower than now. Those black LaBella strings looked cool to me and I bought a set. The black straps (suspensories?) were a trend for bands at the time.

My mother bought a brand new Peavey Mark IV head (also in the picture) with a 2x15 Black Widow equipped cab, which is still my main cab. The head was stolen from our rehearsal place many years later. It came with that Peavey sticker, which I decided to put in the middle of the pickups. Ah, so many memories. I think I'm going to cry :bawl: .
 
#12
Big Benner said:
Hey Alvaro Martín Gómez A. (or anyone else)

How do you get a picture to show up with the type instead of a small preview (with attachment)?

Thanks,

Benner
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I host my pics in imageshack.us, which I like more than photobucket.com. When you upload a picture, you'll be given some codes for posting in forums. There's one for small thumbnails, other for full pictures (embeddable code, the one I use) and other for direct linking.

Hope this helps.
 
#15
Juniorkimbrough said:
yep, the T-40 I had was my very first bass as well......kinda still wish I had it.
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Me too. It got stolen out of my frat house in 1986, and I'm still hoping I'll find it in a pawn shop one of these days. It has a cigarette burn on the headstock from when I imitated Eddie Van Halen during a gig in high school by sticking the 'rette onto the end of a string -- but I bet lots of T-40s have similar cheeseball '80s era damage!

I still remember the awesome tone. A professional musician friend, who was attending Berklee, borrowed it for some recording, and said it sounded like nothing he'd ever heard. He loved the clarity and power.
 
#19
IIRC the Peavey's came out just about the same time the Musicman's did. It was a heady time to be a bassist. Before that, we had Fender and Gibson and that was about all. Now we had the MM with it's new active sound (and pricetag!) and the Peavey on the other end of the price spectrum but nonetheless great sounding. A LOT of country players got ahold of the Peavey's. The necks on those basses were great! Slim and Jazzlike and I don't think there was a rosewood fretboard in the bunch.
 

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