The Peavey Bandit - Redstripe

[DetroitBlues]

A couple months ago, I sold off my Jet City 2212 combo for a nice sum of a few hundred bucks, made a few dollars off it.  The amp was my band practice amp, so it had about a 100+ hours on it over a three year period.

Being such a high gain amp, I really couldn't use it with playing all country music, so I took a little bit of the proceeds and found a used Peavey Bandit Restripe, (USA made version) at Guitar Center's used gear.  This was supposed to be my new amp for band practice since its kept in a barn with little climate control  They have a reputation for sounding really good and built like tanks.

A couple weeks ago, our bass player took the PA out of the barn and grabbed my amp assuming it was my gig amp.  When I arrived at the fairgrounds, he already had my amp on stage, so I just went with it.

Honestly, the amp sounded really good.  Didn't need to turn it up, just needed to position it so I could hear it (often my amps are a few feet behind me and flat on the floor so its hard to really hear it).  

I might just get another one as they just don't make them like this anymore.  Analog, solid state, loud, and very usable all away around.

Edited 7 hours ago by DetroitBlues

[rockabilly69]

Years ago, I played in a country band and we did a lot of winter gigs in Wyoming. We would do 2 nights at each bar, and we would leave our amps in the equipment van overnight. It would get cold as hell up there, sometimes below 0 with windchill. I didn't want to leave one of my expensive tube amps out in the cold, so I bought a Peavey Special 130 which was like a Bandit just more powerful. I paid a few hundred bucks for it used and it never falted once. When I quit that band, I gave it to a close friend who needed an amp. But while I had it, I was surprised how good that amp sounded! I had a simple pedal board that I made with a piece of scrap plywood painted black, that had a volume pedal, Rat distortion, Danelectro DanEcho Delay and a Boss tuner. That was all I needed to get the job done with that amp. Talk about a cheap rig! My guitar was an early seventies Les Paul Deluxe.