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Every marching band needs one...

Dr Stankface

Dr Stankface

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A StingRay 5 on the sidelines! Layin' it down for our rival school. Taken just before my solo in Devil Went Down to Georgia. Have you ever seen a marching band uniform look so good? :p

The things you do when you're bored....

Andrew
 
I could march with the SR5 but how ya march with that Peavey stack?

JK

You look good and it also looks like you are looking at some girls while ya are a playing there.


tk
 
Oh please don't remind me that I have to play through that thing.

Ugh....

Haha. I'm getting a GK stack soon.

It's like that old breathing exercise, "In with the good, out with the Peavey." :p

Andrew
 
In all honesty, I hate it. The 15" can't handle the low end I have to put out for our marching band. (My band director wants me to play loud even though we have 200 people in our band, including 9 tubas.) It likes to freak out when i'm doing harmonic stuff.

I'll give it one thing though. It's tough as nails. With the exception of the high gain input. It barely ever works.

Anyone got any ideas on how I can fix that?

Andrew
 
Peavey is one of the cheapest amps to fix I ever seen. Take it to any shop that can talk to Peavey and it will work.

IMHO


tk
 
I would but i'm not paying any money to get it fixed. Haha. As soon as I get my new rig and marching season is over, that thing is probably going to get sold to the school. They offered me $400 for it. I paid $250 for it. :D

I can get that new rig as soon as someone buys this from me....


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$500 shipped. It's a Fernandes Gravity 5 Deluxe. Anyone that has played one knows that they put out some serious sound. PM if interested.

Andrew
 
Hey, you look great with the SR5 in the pit!

Even though I'm an old guy, I am in a Drum and Bugle Corp. I keep trying to convince our director to let me put down my soprano bugle and play my bass in the pit with the percussion.
 
James Madison University actually marches a bass player. They got a helper with a handcart carrying the stack hooked up to a few car batteries. Seemed goofy but I guess they needed somebody to help out their puny girly-man tuba section on the field.

Tom
 
I'm sure lots of us (me included) started out with a Peavey TNT or TKO. That's a good manly choice of bass amp for a teenager, way better than a Behringer 30 watt combo.
 
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1975, babies. Look at all that "vintage" Peavey stuff! Look at that crappy Gibson bass!

On a positive note, the Peavey stuff is probably still alive and kicking. I sincerely hope that Gibson bass has become firewood.
 
I think I've unravelled the mystery of Jack's short strap. He's still using the same one he had in 1975, so as he grew taller the bass moved from CYN height to his nipples.
 
No one mentioned the 'afro' yet....

Still, it was '75.

I started out with a TKO, I don't think you can bash 'em as a starter.
 
I'm sure lots of us (me included) started out with a Peavey TNT or TKO.
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I started out with a Heathkit myself but I did own a TNT or TKO 60 I think it was..that was also the amp I used when I got my first real bass which happened to be this new one that had just came out called a StingRay in the mid 70's. Before that I owned a Gibson Grabber so I don't really call that my first real bass...had it been a Ripper then my StingRay would have been my second real bass.
 
My first amp was a TNT. Back when I knew absolutely nothing and just wanted to buy the biggest subwoofer combo amp I could afford. I remember buying it the day before I moved house and because it was so damned heavy and only had the single plastic carrying strap at the top I actually sprained my arm carrying it away from the shop to the car! I was useless for moving furniture the next day!

Anywho, I played that thing for almost 10 years (as a bedroom practice amp and for small local "basement" gigs) and sold it just before moving to the UK. I'm sure it's still alive and kicking today for the teenage kid I sold it to.

As Mark said it definitely served its purpose as a good "teenage" starter amp for rumbling the parents' house from its foundations!

PS. What's with the "SS" on your uniform collar? :eek:
 
My first bass amp was an Ashdown ABM 500 C210, but I only started bass two years ago.

I also served a sentence in the high school marching band, back then I weighed 125 pounds and played the Bari sax, I have back problems to this day because of that. But on a positive note I did meet my wife in the band.

And I’ll confess to having a “fro” back in 76, it was a perm and was referred to as a “General Electric” hair do. :eek:
 
bovinehost said:
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1975, babies. Look at all that "vintage" Peavey stuff! Look at that crappy Gibson bass!

On a positive note, the Peavey stuff is probably still alive and kicking. I sincerely hope that Gibson bass has become firewood.
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wow that bass is really small i hate the way they look they look cheap or i would get one i happen to like the one made by ltd better
 
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