ok, so yeah, I'm the Duran Duran geek on the board, and yeah, John Taylor happens to be in Duran Duran, and yeah, he also happens to be married to one of the founders of Juicy Couture... is he the next Gene Simmons?

John Taylor Signature Peavey Guitar

Earlier this year, Peavey asked me to create a "John Taylor" signature bass guitar. I have been using the same Peavey bass guitar on stage with Duran Duran for several years, and I love their products. A light bulb went off in my head. With my design partner Patty Palazzo, we've had a lot to do with creating the attitude of Juicy Couture For Men, and if we could design a guitar that had the same attitude as the Juicy men's line, that could be something really fresh. So that's what we decided to do.

One the first things we discussed with Juicy was marketing through fashion retail, and Peavey naturally loved this idea. We wanted the guitar to appeal to someone who loves music and maybe has never before owned an electric guitar. They're a bit intimidated by music stores, as I am, but if we were to make this guitar available through fashion retail outlets such as Neiman Marcus, they wouldn't be able to resist.

Next, we heard of a designer named Ted McCann, of Core One Creative, who has been creating fashion oriented state-of-the-art music accessories for the past few years. We met with him and told him what we wanted, a fashion oriented set up to house a beautiful Peavey instrument as if it were a precious artifact found in the middle of a desert tomb. We told him our wish list for a ready-to-play power gift and he got on it right away.

Now the guitar itself: it's a beautiful thing - Peavey make beautiful instruments. The sound and the quality of finish is second to none. For the look of the guitar we took graphic elements from the menswear line and sculpted them into the shape of the guitar's body. We chose woods and metals that best expressed my ideal instrument. I've been playing music a long time, and this is my ultimate dream guitar. We call the project PEAVEY LIBERATOR.

We were so pleased with how the bass came out we decided to also offer a six string guitar option. There are a lot of guys out there that want to play guitar, and we felt it wouldn't be fair to leave them out. I named the six stringed guitar for the highway that lead from the house I grew up in, into the city of Birmingham, the A435. The bass I named for a rather special year, the J84.

It is important that you can take this instrument home, plug it in and play it straight away, so we built a detachable amplifier into the case. It can be expanded into any external speaker or amplifier that can make it as loud and flexible as you might ever want. Core One Creative made the case so that it not only acts as an amplifier, but as a display stand adding their patented instrument hanger design. We chose a weathered 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' feel for the case's exterior, with symbols and numbers that suggest the guitar has been Imperial booty, laying for years in some dusty Egyptian warehouse. Inside it's a different story. Pink faux fur lining keeps the guitar as safe and secure as a jewel.

This is the deal: you get the guitar, a specially designed amplifier with combo tuner, Bullet Coil cable, picks, a vintage heavily medaled strap, and an accessory bag that your toothbrush would look good in. You're ready to groove!

The custom built case makes this a Special Edition item. It is limited to only 100 numbered and signed 4-string basses, and 100 numbered and signed 6-string guitars.

Check out the link and the pictures below.

Enjoy,
JT

Neiman Marcus

It's actually cool he's getting his own signature model and all, but I can think of a lot of OTHER guitars I would want to spend $1300 on before his signature model from Neiman-Marcus.

This is not gonna sell. I hope Peavey knows that, and is doing it for the exposure. If so, well cool. If not... then I have some beachfront ocean real estate up here for them.

Peavey makes some serious shite. The classic 30 and 50 are exceptions.

also, i originally read this as James Taylor, and I was confused because I'm pretty sure he's got a signature Martin i.e. a real guitar.

Those get close to a good sound. Too tinny to my ears for most pickups, but CLOSE. But the input jacks and hardware is worse than DeVille-class fenders (and those are not real robust).

Now the old 5150 head/4x12's... those had one trick, but shitola they did it well. As long as you wanted that sound, you were set.

I totally don't want that sound, and i have to concur with your assessment. We're like the Statler and Waldorf of gear.

If I need to get close to that sound, I still have the dual rectifier in the basement. And it at least has 2 or 3 tricks, not just 1.


Who would buy a bass or guitar through Neimann Marcus?!!

did you end up selling that mesa combo? I just got a replacement speaker for my mesa scout from them for free, and i was talking with tien and he says to look for a new combo at the winter or summer namm to kind of take the place of that Subway Rocket, or Subway Blues...

Color me interested with that 40% discount.

I still have it. It's cleaned up and under a cover in the storage space 8 feet below my butt. I only play through the Vibrolux Reverb reissue these days... country gigs mostly.

I wish to god I had that little 7-watter you have. I cannot plug anything in anymore without an extremely big hassle, and then it's gotta be quiet.

want to work out a trade plus any cash difference that might occur? I love it too and don't want to lose it, but i'm gigging on guitar in two bands!

odd.

YES.

I mean, uh, yeah maybe, if you know, the price


hell yes.

but you guys???? It's JOHN TAYLOR. He's hot, so that trumps all your technical babble.

Dana, butt out. This thread has been hijacked, better change the topic to MR, girl.

And Kyle, we'll figure out something, or not. I'm also looking at some mid 60s Ampeg Gemini I amps. And then there's the soon to be unveiled mesa. Star now has a 15 watt version of the nova that I've got and want badly. Very badly. Mebbe i can get you the nova, we can figure out how to turn the mesa into a supernova, and then do a swappy swap, plus any cash to make it fair and equitable. What kind of mesa do you have again?

If I'm lookin for ding dong, he's the first person I'll go to. If I'm looking for a guitar, I might perhaps go elsewhere.

I just spit pbr on the screen.

and deena's making my tuna melt recipe for me tonight. Go figure, you just mentioned it here in the last day or two, i haven't had it since i made it for you...

oops, sorry to get sidetracked. ADD...

100 watt mesa dual recto combo, 1998, 2x12, 2 channels with cloning, reverb, tremolo, all black (no diamond plate).

christ. i would feel guilty trading you. pm me anyways.

y'all both officially suck.

only if you're lucky. do ya feel lucky punk? well... do ya?

sweetheart, I don't need it from you, believe me.

we're not talking about your "needs".

we're talking about gear.


in your thread.