of accidents that happen in our industry that
turn out to be pretty good.
Outside of your own stuff, do you have a
favorite piece of gear?
That’s a hard question because I love a
bunch of it. I’ll say this: I used to want
a Brown Fender Concert so bad I could
taste it. I actually do have one now. I also
really wanted a 335 when they came out—
I never got one, but I do have a ’ 59 or ’ 60
345. It’s just beautiful, cracks and all.
So, what’s the next Peavey project on
the horizon?
I’ve got lots of stuff cooking. We are
going to revolutionize guitar amplification, and it won’t be long. It’s probably
less than a year out. You won’t believe
what I’m going to show you. It’s just like
the government with all their top-secret
projects—rumors about UFO’s begin to
surface, but we really do have things
flying around. Players will be amazed at
the power that I’m going to put in their
hands.
That’s quite a sell. Should you pull
this off, it sounds like it’ll be ‘game
over,’ eh?
Ahhh, but no. My competitors have this
way of not rolling over. I’ve been at this
thing for 43 years, though, and the good
Lord willing, I have a few more good ones
in me. There are so many different technologies converging and we’ve only seen
the tip of the iceberg with the likes of
ReValver.
All my life people have said, “You can’t
do that. You can’t compete with so and
so, you’re crazy.” I suffer from what most
people call the “bumblebee effect,” which
states that, technically, the bumblebee
shouldn’t be able to fly. His body weighs
PEAvEY
more than his wings can support during
flight. Nobody ever told the bee, though.
So he flies, and it’s because his wings
don’t go up and down. He found a better way to do it; his wings move in a fig-ure-eight motion, which gives him extra
power. All my life, people have been
telling me that I couldn’t do it and you
know what? Not only are we doing it,
but we’ve been doing it longer than any
similar company in the US. I believe our
future is very bright.
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