General Music Chat

I have a Peavey Patriot that's a great guitar. Only one I ever decided on in 30 seconds. Usually I have to play it for at least a half hour to be sure it won't hurt my hand. Tendon in left ring finger cut in half at age 12, the wrong neck and I'm in pain. I knew I wanted the Peavey before I even plugged it in. Once I did, oooohh boy...Clean it's one of the best sounding guitars around, only that strat matches it. Same pickups as the one in the tele copy above. That's a single coil by the way, not a humbucker. Peavey Super Ferrite whatever that means. Switch it to both pickups for rhythm and it rings like bells. Only slimmer neck I ever saw was on Mosrites.

I also had the advantage of plugging it into my amp, I had just bought one at a pawn shot, found the Patriot when I went in to make the last payment and pick it up. He had just put it on the shelf that day, hard shell case, great price and this old fellow would make me a deal even on a lay away, since I Had been a customer for a while. Bought 2 cameras there, the amp, some machinist tools, other things, and he'd deal with me, which most pawn shops won't do on a lay away.

I had also already tried out every guitar in the place. and was trying to make up my mind on a nice Squire Strat. Wasn't crazy about the red body, but very nice neck and sounded great, but I already had a strat...got to talking to him and found out he didn't even know if any of them worked, so when I put the amp on lay away I plugged in every guitar in the shop. Told him which ones had bad pickup switches, bad pickups, bad pots, didn't work at all...unfortunately he didn't have any really good ones at the time, the nice Les Paul disappeared a week or two before I bought the amp.

So I got the Peavey Patriot and never looked back...Soon as I picked it up and played it for less than a minute unplugged, I had no doubt...I want this guitar...I can replace pickups, but it sounded very good unplugged, still does, and had the nicest neck I've ever seen. Strange thing is, I have looked at the Peavey T 60's for years. Most look cool and play well, but the sound is usually not there. Unplugged most are dead sounding, I never even plug them in. I was leary of this one for that reason, (long before the Wolfgang guitar was even thought about) and almost didn't even try it out...

I was hunting for a good used MIM Strat, but had to go with the Peavey

I never met a MIM strat I liked.

I guess I didn't properly intro myself to them.. LOL

Here's my China Strat:



I paid a bit more than that $10 Squire - $24.50 (but it was new!)

I used this guitar for all the guitar tracks on my song 'On The Edge', which is now on my BM player - I had this song up before, but have tweaked the mix a little since then.