The Peavey T-15 Guitar, aka the “Mississippi Mustang”

The Peavey T-15 Guitar, aka the “Mississippi Mustang”

Those of you who know me, or are regular readers of this blog know that nearly all of my guitars and amps came to me by way of a pawn shop, junk shop, dumpster, garage sale, craigslist, ebay, and so on and so forth.  I feel as though, just as rescue dogs make the best pets, rescue guitars make the best friends!  The Peavey T-15 that is the topic of this blog is typical: I found her sitting, unloved, in a dark corner of a pawnshop.

A little history: like anyone who began their musical career in the late 70’s to early 80’s, I was an early Peavey user.  My high school band’s first PA was an XR-600B built into that ultra cool roadcase and it fed a pair of FH-1 folded bass bins and huge SP-1 radial horns.  Our system sounded better than almost any other local band! (Not that the Shure Vocal Masters were any real competition). Our Bass player played a T-40 bass and I played a T-60 guitar.  Perry still calls the T-40 his sole instrument, but my T-60 is long gone.  I haven’t played one in many years, but I remember it as playing really good, sounding great, and weighing a ton.  It’s that last factor that led to my eventually getting rid of it. 

So, when I saw the little T-15 I was instantly smitten; she has the same quality sound and feel as the T-60, but man-oh-man is she nice and light, and she plays like butter.  Folks who are familiar with me also know that I name the guitars that I am especially fond of, so in that tradition, I present Katie with a couple of her girl friends.

Katie is a petite little cutie with a great and varied personality.  Tonally, she covers a surprisingly vast amount of ground.  I could tell you all about her, but instead, check out this video (and the pics):  See ya all next week!

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