Hi, do you have the toaster pickups or the blade pickups i have the toaster pickups but i dont like the tone too much its very dull and bassy i know thats what its supposed to do, but even on the bridge is got like no power
have a nice life is such an underrated band, their first two albums are fantastic, especially that debut. genuinely one of the greatest things i've ever listened to
Peavey stuff from the 70s-00s used to be what we used here in the South because Mesa/Marshall/Fender/Gibson were too expensive. Peavey PAs were really common in Southern clubs and bars. Peavey stuff wasn't flashy, but it was inexpensive and reliable--ideal for the working musician. I was rarely a fan of Peavey guitars because most were Fender Strat copies and not designed for metal. But, Peavey basses like the Foundation series were solid, as were the active Dynabasses. Many of their pickups were proprietary designs. Then Peavey lost the EVH endorsement, production was outsourced from Mississippi to China, "Undercover Boss" happened, and things became a mess. People ignored this bass for years because of its 70s design aesthetics. Then people started buying them used on Reverb. Now they're a hipster collectible. I believe the bass has somewhat complex controls for phase/series/split coil/parallel--things that are seen on guitar but no longer that common on bass save perhaps higher end Stingrays. Today's hifi Warwick-inspired active bass pickups seem to have little use for the flexibility of passive wiring designs and prefer to use active EQ circuits instead. Some luthiers also might take issue with weight = sustain. My former guitar maintenance/luthiery instructor at Musician's Institute, John Carruthers, is not a fan of heavy instruments (>8 lbs.) for sustain. John helped Rick Turner design EMG pickups and did setups for Jimmy Hendrix.
I've got a 1979 T-40, which I bought for £250 in the pre-internet days, when they were still unpopular due to being made by a computer controlled jig instead of actual people. Yes, it weighs an absolute ton, but it sounds like a beast. It also has a brilliant control system that's designed to mimic other basses. The tone controls actually tap the coils as you turn them. It also looks sexy as Hell.
Glad to say I own one of these as well as recorded our first album with it. Not only is it super heavy but is one of the most versatile bass guitars ever, tone wise.
I’ve got an ash ‘79 T40. It’s a tank, but it’s versatile. For those that don’t know, with the tone knobs on 10, both pickups are single coil. When you get to 7, they become humbuckers, then rolling down more takes off the high end. It’s also got a phase switch,that with some experimentation with the pickups, will grant you even more tonal variety.
Why in 40 years of companies making basses has noone tried to replicate the t40 electronics. Spend thousands on a luthier bass but noone can make these custom potentiometers?
I work in a guitar shop and we just moved a Peavey T60. I'll tell you, as the one in charge of cleaning and shipping, that thing was crazy heavy lol. It was also bright red which I had never seen before. Awesome piece of gear
Same for the Peavey T-60 guitar.... heaviest guitar ever! So many tone options though. At one point it had the most patents applied for on a guitar. Very innovative for it's day.
I was playing one of these in a punk band back in 97. Got it off a guy for $100 at the time. And grew up learning guitar on a T15 when they were still in production. They were great.
I had a natural one like the thumbnail behs in like 2005. It was heavy, awkward, and goofy-looking, but played and sounded AWESOME, and SUPER versatile. I wish now that I'd kept it for seated playing at home or recording.
My friend had one of these in college and played an insane number of gigs with it. He was one of those guys who'd pretty much say yes to everything, between his regular marching band role to playing with jazz groups, jamming, etc. He loved his.
I played a Peavey Behs fot a couple of years, and I also used a Galian Kruger with a Hartke which my brother in law who was the tour manager for the Crash Test Dummies, whom I met called "Horrible American Trash That Keeps Exploding" Love you Steve! .. I am only 6 degrees from meeting Danny Sapkoh
I worked at a Peavey dealer in the eighties during my college years. Yes, T-40s are heavy. They did do a slightly revised version where they gave it a stomach cut, removed the rubber covers from the blade pole pieces, and added some colours including yellow and red. There was also a single pickup version called the T-45 which had no pickguard. I owned the T-60 guitar version, wish I still had it. Peavey did an all-walnut prototype called the T-62 that was just as heavy as the T-40. They were revolutionary because they were the first guitars made with CNC machinery.
I had 2 when I first started touring, but the weight made for long nights ( 4 sets). I traded them and eventually got a Rickenbacker 4003. Still, I wish I had kept one.
Mainly wanted to say 'thanks' for including a snippet of good old _mindless injury_ content. 😄 I don't play (ducks for cover), but it's kinda cool to learn another minor factoid about instruments I watch on stage, dozens of times a year.
Got a T60 at home belonging to my dad. Great guitar, it’s what I learned all my favorite songs on before I bought my own one. Always wanted to try a T40 cause of that
Had one in middle school . It sounded monstrous . If it weren’t twice my size, maybe I’d stil use it. I found it somewhere in between a MM bass and a Wal bass but heavy like the times . Best of everything Mayor of Low Freq
T40 I bought brand new in 1978 I believe... owned it until my 2nd divorce in 2003...played live and used for recording direct to a 4track cassette machine. I recently saw one in a pawn shop and forgot how heavy it really was...damn solid AF. Played and did me well for so many years. I did love it, but would never buy another...they are actually expensive if you can find a decent one...lol
I have a T-40, heavy as a boat anchor but I love the phletora of sounds I can get with the unique features it has (phase switch + change from single to humbucker turning the pickup tone for each pickup). Check the video named "the secret sounds inside the Peavey T-40".
Not even gonna lie. I just opened for P Funk last night at the Fillmore. It makes me happy to see this on your feed 🤩 (Tamarie Tee and Thee Elektra Kumpany)
My friends dad used to be in a band and had a t-60 stuffed into his living room closet. It was the first real guitar I ever touched or even saw up close.
I have a T-40 and honestly, I think it's reputation for being a boat anchor is overblown. I've seen vintage p-basses that where just as massive and heavy. While it is heavy, it's far from thors hammer. Just a bass with interesting pickups
The first bass I ever owned. Traded it in for an Ibanez Roadstar II. I wish I still had it. It wasn't until many, many years later that I learned the electronics had a unique feature that, dependent upon the knob/pick up/polarity switch setting, you were supposed to be able to make it sound like any bass, such as a Ric, Jazz, P bass, and Musicman.
I have same coffee table color and knobs on my 81 Peavey Foundation w ferrite pickups. Still sounds amazing, yet not 400 lbs. The metal P knobs are sick
I've got a 79 schecter jazz bass that would give that a run for its money in Weight. Solid mahogany body and single piece Rosewood neck. I love it my shoulder hates it
This is the Behs I learned to play on. We used to call it the coffee table. I loved the thing wish I still had it. Bought it for $100. In the early 90‘ s found one on eBay a couple years back $450. No case.
I bought a Peavey T-40 for 280.00 USD in 1978. Yes, that thing was HEAVY. It did have a rather nice tone and switch setup. Squeeze it through a Marshall 100w head, and lo and behold! Nevertheless I soon traded it in for a Rickenbacker 4001-big change, eh? Sometimes I wish I had kept it. But now, at age 67, my shoulder doesn’t welcome a big chunk of ash wood.
I have a Fender J that weighs in at 13lbs. It's a friggin' boat anchor! I had to get an extra-wide strap just to keep it from slicing my shoulder off. It has a lovely tone and records great, but there would be no way I could gig with it (luckily my gigging days are over).
My 77 Jazz weighs 13 lbs. And sounds amazing! Had to get a cheap backup p-bass when I was gigging though... three nights in a row jumping around with that and your back is ruined
Yup, I have it and used it for one gig. I realized that it's made from Rock Maple. But by the end of the night, I wasn't sure if it was more Rock than Maple. The electronics are awesome though as it will do everything and then some.
That video belongs to Matias Leanza Montes, @1:13 the T-40 mimics a MusicMan Stingray very decently (double coil and phase switch on - this switch works only with the bridge pickup).
Tone and sustain for days, but yeah it’s playable furniture
I just spit out my coffee of laughter lmao
Parliament Funkadelic is now my new favorite PG-rated cursing phrase
Agreed
more like P Funk rated
Dang, I really thought he meant heavy like "YUUUHH, SLAYER EUGH"
SLAYYEEERR you know, just GRRRRH
British Freddy Krueger coming in with the Peavy behs review wasn’t on the docket today but I’m here for it.
*Scottish 😊
@@michaelmccoy1794 *Northern English
i have a 6 digit 1978!
I have a T-40 and can absolutely vouch for the heft. But the tones are heavier!
It's my first bass!
How much do they weigh exactly?
I also have one and although I know it's hardest, I never thought it was the hardest.
(I'm sorry if this translation is wrong.)
The dewm tonez are nuts
Hi, do you have the toaster pickups or the blade pickups i have the toaster pickups but i dont like the tone too much its very dull and bassy i know thats what its supposed to do, but even on the bridge is got like no power
love the hanl representation
yeah i never except them to be in one of these videos. their bass tones are pretty sick though haha
have a nice life is such an underrated band, their first two albums are fantastic, especially that debut. genuinely one of the greatest things i've ever listened to
180 days well spent, Defenestration Song has one of my favorite bass lines and tones ever made.
Peavey stuff from the 70s-00s used to be what we used here in the South because Mesa/Marshall/Fender/Gibson were too expensive. Peavey PAs were really common in Southern clubs and bars.
Peavey stuff wasn't flashy, but it was inexpensive and reliable--ideal for the working musician.
I was rarely a fan of Peavey guitars because most were Fender Strat copies and not designed for metal. But, Peavey basses like the Foundation series were solid, as were the active Dynabasses. Many of their pickups were proprietary designs.
Then Peavey lost the EVH endorsement, production was outsourced from Mississippi to China, "Undercover Boss" happened, and things became a mess.
People ignored this bass for years because of its 70s design aesthetics. Then people started buying them used on Reverb. Now they're a hipster collectible.
I believe the bass has somewhat complex controls for phase/series/split coil/parallel--things that are seen on guitar but no longer that common on bass save perhaps higher end Stingrays.
Today's hifi Warwick-inspired active bass pickups seem to have little use for the flexibility of passive wiring designs and prefer to use active EQ circuits instead.
Some luthiers also might take issue with weight = sustain.
My former guitar maintenance/luthiery instructor at Musician's Institute, John Carruthers, is not a fan of heavy instruments (>8 lbs.) for sustain. John helped Rick Turner design EMG pickups and did setups for Jimmy Hendrix.
Danny doing a vid on fucking Have A Nice Life is an insane crossover
I've got a 1979 T-40, which I bought for £250 in the pre-internet days, when they were still unpopular due to being made by a computer controlled jig instead of actual people.
Yes, it weighs an absolute ton, but it sounds like a beast. It also has a brilliant control system that's designed to mimic other basses. The tone controls actually tap the coils as you turn them.
It also looks sexy as Hell.
Glad to say I own one of these as well as recorded our first album with it. Not only is it super heavy but is one of the most versatile bass guitars ever, tone wise.
I’ve got an ash ‘79 T40. It’s a tank, but it’s versatile. For those that don’t know, with the tone knobs on 10, both pickups are single coil. When you get to 7, they become humbuckers, then rolling down more takes off the high end. It’s also got a phase switch,that with some experimentation with the pickups, will grant you even more tonal variety.
WHAT
I have the same bass, same finish, and I LOVE it!
Thats why I got mine, it was so versitile. any tone you want out of it.
Why in 40 years of companies making basses has noone tried to replicate the t40 electronics.
Spend thousands on a luthier bass but noone can make these custom potentiometers?
I got one but the pickups sound overall like they are under water and... Low powered? Do you guys get the same feeling?
If we're still doing sounds of bass players, you definitely gotta check out Felix Pappalardi from Mountain. He rocks
YES!!!! Felix is amazing
Yes the Mountain live album. Playing his Gibson eb1 Bass with that massive humbucker distorting those Sunn tube amps so nicely, sounds awesome.
I work in a guitar shop and we just moved a Peavey T60. I'll tell you, as the one in charge of cleaning and shipping, that thing was crazy heavy lol. It was also bright red which I had never seen before. Awesome piece of gear
Thank you so much for this video. The first 10 seconds made me laugh harder than I have in quite some time 😂😂😂
Hell Yes, my dream bass (one of them at least), and I love have a nice life. Great pick
Same for the Peavey T-60 guitar.... heaviest guitar ever! So many tone options though. At one point it had the most patents applied for on a guitar. Very innovative for it's day.
Holy shit that's the bass This Heat bassist used. Fucking sick
I played one(T-40) once in the early 80's, My shoulder still hurts
Where did you buy that shirttt??? I need itttt😂
Kinda reminds me of the one Freddy Krueger wore in the movie Nightmare On Elm St. 🤣
@@Mick_Ts_Chick 😂, It does, but it's the classic Kurt Cobain shirt, which I've been searching for everywhere lol.
@@Nirvana_in_my_heart Maybe Danny should sell them on his website also!
@@Nirvana_in_my_heart wait, youre looking for a kurt cobain shirt?? i would have never guessed that
@@mikemybalzich3159 Haha, it's really that obvious, dang it!😂
This is so funky and makes me feel tingly.
buddy with the epic faceplant at the start was fckn 😂😂
Matey with the pallet truck did the superman 😂
The videos of forklift accidents are even worse! 😬😱
T-40 is one of my favorites/dream basses that I've never played before.. which makes up 99% of my favorite basses list
i have a t40 and a factory T40-FL . love them to bits
I love your outfit! :3
That sweater is so sick right??
@@BurialSociety666 yes! :3
I was playing one of these in a punk band back in 97. Got it off a guy for $100 at the time. And grew up learning guitar on a T15 when they were still in production. They were great.
I bought a 1980 T-40 back in 94. Still have it. Never found a bass like that I like as much as it. Still sounds beautiful.
I had a natural one like the thumbnail behs in like 2005. It was heavy, awkward, and goofy-looking, but played and sounded AWESOME, and SUPER versatile. I wish now that I'd kept it for seated playing at home or recording.
SO COOL DUDE! hanl is great!
My friend had one of these in college and played an insane number of gigs with it. He was one of those guys who'd pretty much say yes to everything, between his regular marching band role to playing with jazz groups, jamming, etc. He loved his.
My friend had one back in the '80's. It was extremely heavy.
I played a Peavey Behs fot a couple of years, and I also used a Galian Kruger with a Hartke which my brother in law who was the tour manager for the Crash Test Dummies, whom I met called "Horrible American Trash That Keeps Exploding" Love you Steve! .. I am only 6 degrees from meeting Danny Sapkoh
Grand Funk Railroad's Mel Schacher and Cactus' Tim Bogert are also HEAVY!!!
One of the best basses ever made.
The T-40 was my first bass, wish I still had it. It was like playing a door but played and sounded great
There's a spreadsheet online somewhere that shows you all of the tonal variations of that Peavey bass.
It's really a good sounding bass. A friend of mine has one and we've recorded a lot of music with that sucker.
Danny - "This bass is HEAVY!"
My mid-80s G&L L-2000 - "Hold my beer."
I worked at a Peavey dealer in the eighties during my college years. Yes, T-40s are heavy. They did do a slightly revised version where they gave it a stomach cut, removed the rubber covers from the blade pole pieces, and added some colours including yellow and red. There was also a single pickup version called the T-45 which had no pickguard. I owned the T-60 guitar version, wish I still had it. Peavey did an all-walnut prototype called the T-62 that was just as heavy as the T-40. They were revolutionary because they were the first guitars made with CNC machinery.
I had 2 when I first started touring, but the weight made for long nights ( 4 sets). I traded them and eventually got a Rickenbacker 4003. Still, I wish I had kept one.
I *KNEW* you were gonna say the Peavey T40 as soon as you said heavy (as in weight) bass. Weighs an absolute TON x
For years I'm always talking about how great and HEAVY my 1980 Peavey T-40 is and now my favorite RUclipsr confirmed it!!!
My school had one. It rant through their Crate tube amp. I never particularly liked it, but I also didn't really know what I was doing with it either.
Mainly wanted to say 'thanks' for including a snippet of good old _mindless injury_ content. 😄
I don't play (ducks for cover), but it's kinda cool to learn another minor factoid about instruments I watch on stage, dozens of times a year.
Got a T60 at home belonging to my dad. Great guitar, it’s what I learned all my favorite songs on before I bought my own one. Always wanted to try a T40 cause of that
Had one in middle school . It sounded monstrous . If it weren’t twice my size, maybe I’d stil use it. I found it somewhere in between a MM bass and a Wal bass but heavy like the times . Best of everything Mayor of Low Freq
I immediately knew which bass you were going to talk about. Great bass player with some really cool sounds.
T40 I bought brand new in 1978 I believe... owned it until my 2nd divorce in 2003...played live and used for recording direct to a 4track cassette machine. I recently saw one in a pawn shop and forgot how heavy it really was...damn solid AF. Played and did me well for so many years. I did love it, but would never buy another...they are actually expensive if you can find a decent one...lol
A friend of mine‘s brother had one of these basses. You’re right, it weighed a ton but it did have some killer tones.
A short reverb would make it sound even more spot-on.
I've had one since 1984. It still plays and sounds great.
Have one, love it
I used to have one. I miss it so much. It was actually quite versatile.
I've gigged with mine before, it wasn't totally awful but it did end up making my shoulder ache a bit, several times.
I have a T-40, heavy as a boat anchor but I love the phletora of sounds I can get with the unique features it has (phase switch + change from single to humbucker turning the pickup tone for each pickup).
Check the video named "the secret sounds inside the Peavey T-40".
Have A Nice Life is so fuckin good
Played one and can confirm, it was too heavy to be enjoyable. That Rick bass sounds amazing
BOB WESTON BASS TONE the traynor ts50b amp in Shellac packs a punch.
Funny I had T60 and traynor!
Not even gonna lie. I just opened for P Funk last night at the Fillmore.
It makes me happy to see this on your feed 🤩
(Tamarie Tee and Thee Elektra Kumpany)
My friends dad used to be in a band and had a t-60 stuffed into his living room closet. It was the first real guitar I ever touched or even saw up close.
I just bought mine a few months and it is very very heavy but the sound is so killer
Super funny with the guy and the furniture toppling
Love that tone
Just casually havin one of the most wild work accidents for a meme goddam
I just got 1 for free, redid all the switches, and adjusted the torsion bar. She sounds beautiful
Circa 80 Scottish post-punks Scars bassist played one. Friend owns one and, yes, like everyone else has said, a backbreaker
A buddy of mine has one of these. It plays and sounds great but it’s definitely a back breaker.
Had one in blue, great sound but man it just crippled me. Sold it
I have a T-40 and honestly, I think it's reputation for being a boat anchor is overblown. I've seen vintage p-basses that where just as massive and heavy. While it is heavy, it's far from thors hammer. Just a bass with interesting pickups
The first bass I ever owned. Traded it in for an Ibanez Roadstar II. I wish I still had it. It wasn't until many, many years later that I learned the electronics had a unique feature that, dependent upon the knob/pick up/polarity switch setting, you were supposed to be able to make it sound like any bass, such as a Ric, Jazz, P bass, and Musicman.
Tough choice. I love my T40, but I also love my Roadstar II. They were my ultimate combo for years.
I have same coffee table color and knobs on my 81 Peavey Foundation w ferrite pickups. Still sounds amazing, yet not 400 lbs. The metal P knobs are sick
I've got a 79 schecter jazz bass that would give that a run for its money in Weight.
Solid mahogany body and single piece Rosewood neck.
I love it my shoulder hates it
I get the guitar version
I've always wanted to play a Peavey T-60. I've also heard they're heavy too lol
@@secularZoo very!
I used to own a T-40. Lots of great tone options, but mine weighed 14.5 US pounds! I sold it about 2 months after buying it.
My first real bass purchased from Sam Ash in Brooklyn circa 1980. Yes heavy but good. Mine was white. My T60 was natural.
This is the Behs I learned to play on. We used to call it the coffee table. I loved the thing wish I still had it. Bought it for $100. In the early 90‘ s found one on eBay a couple years back $450. No case.
I have a T-40, it's my favorite instrument I've ever played, it's worth the weight imo
Aye. Used to own a '79 T-40. Gave me premature backpain at 33 y.o. but made me sounded decent.
My first BEHS was a T40! Had a plastic case. Got it for my 14th birthday in 1982 😂
I got my hands on one once. It was definitely heavy, almost painful to have on my lap. The price of a used one these days is pretty painful, too.
I bought a Peavey T-40 for 280.00 USD in 1978. Yes, that thing was HEAVY. It did have a rather nice tone and switch setup. Squeeze it through a Marshall 100w head, and lo and behold! Nevertheless I soon traded it in for a Rickenbacker 4001-big change, eh? Sometimes I wish I had kept it. But now, at age 67, my shoulder doesn’t welcome a big chunk of ash wood.
Great tone recreation.
A friend of mine had a Peavey bass. That thing was a tank.
I have a Fender J that weighs in at 13lbs. It's a friggin' boat anchor! I had to get an extra-wide strap just to keep it from slicing my shoulder off. It has a lovely tone and records great, but there would be no way I could gig with it (luckily my gigging days are over).
My 77 Jazz weighs 13 lbs. And sounds amazing! Had to get a cheap backup p-bass when I was gigging though... three nights in a row jumping around with that and your back is ruined
Yup, I have it and used it for one gig. I realized that it's made from Rock Maple. But by the end of the night, I wasn't sure if it was more Rock than Maple. The electronics are awesome though as it will do everything and then some.
You can even get aluminum neck conversion for them. Like those old Kramers
Always wanted a Peavey bass. Their amps aren’t shabby either.
My dad had one and it's a boat anchor but the tones are immaculate!
Dig the Freddy Kruger sweater!
LOVE THE GRUNGE CLOTHES! also he swears by parliament funkadelic lol, anyways nice tone
Hahaha that dude flew like a sea lion off a waterfall!
SOLID Maple Weighs a TON!!! Boat Anchor ⚓️
I got one and yes it's heavy. And a great piece of gear too.
Looks and sounds sweet
I play a t60. Not many people use the old peavy stuff anymore. Cool vid!
That video belongs to Matias Leanza Montes, @1:13 the T-40 mimics a MusicMan Stingray very decently (double coil and phase switch on - this switch works only with the bridge pickup).
I have one and is the next thing after a black hole!! A PBass military graded. What a sound.
Danny you're a right bastard, and I mean that in the best way😂
I own a Peavey T40, they are made out of a solid Ash. Yes they are freaking heavy
My mom got me a 1976 Peavey T-60(bright red) guitar for my 15th birthday…still have it. I’m 37 rn.
Damn those were good cuts dude