valhallasound wrote:One of the times I saw Shellac, the bassist (Bob Weston) was taking questions from the audience. The question came up: "What is inside of your custom amp?"codec_spurt wrote: Was that a Peavey Bandit?
Weston's reply: "A Peavey Bandit."
I think pretty much everyone has owned or played through a Peavey Bandit during some part of their career. I played through the Bandit's baby brother, the Backstage 30, for years.
Sean Costello
Peavey did lots of variations on many types of their amps. I always remember the Bandit as being a single 12 inch 65 watt.
This one was mine - it was a hybrid solid state/valve combo. And you could plug in two guitars though of course you halfed the power rms. It was f**king loud though, but I liked it silly loud then. And I mean silly. I really am lucky to still have such good hearing.
It only pumped out 65 watts RMS and even though this was enough to make the neighbours complain, it still lacked something when playing with a full on metal drummer, which is what I was into at the time.
It had a superb Phaser, which you can see in the blue button, and the reverb was to die for. A true spring, don't know if it was better than any others but it was more than good enough for me. A strat through it sounded like a strat, bringing out the twangs so beautifully..
It had Black Widow speakers iirc.
Sorry I got rid of it really.
And yeah, I know the 'Backstage' too. Great little amp. I had the smallest amp Peavey made apart from the Classic I mentioned. It was only 10 watts. Loud as f**k. And yeah, it had the kinky blue phaser button, and a headphone out so you didn't piss of the parents. Gotta love Peavey. Not sure if that was the Backstage or not. It's all a bit blurry now..
In fact my band at the time had a 1K rig PA system from them with active crossover. But that is beyond the scope of this article. Two towers that it took two men to lift. And that was just the amp
...Great amps, great reverb, great blue buttons..
cheers.
looks like V1, my favorite, is off the page 
