I bought my (red) Musicmaster new for $200 when I was 14 in '78. Went on to play & tour in a bunch of punk bands. Got a bit of stick from some people because it wasn't a P-Bass. But it sounded amazing through distortion. (It shipped with flat wounds & I think those tamed the high end on the stock strat pickup when distorted). Around '88 I stuck it in its case and moved to a couple J & P basses. - Just pulled it out two days ago, tuned it up and, while the pickups have pretty low output compared to my newer basses, it still plays great & has a "sound"" that is quite unique from the J's or P's. Crazy to see them on Reverb for over 2K. But they are solid American made basses.

Cool, v interesting! (Would have liked to hear the bass by itself a bit more also)

Other than mine being red, that Penco looks identical from the front to my Aria 5502. The Aria 5502 was built by Matsumoku from 1972 to 1975. Does the Penco have a rectangular cover plate on the back basically underneath the pots and jack? Is there a metal two bolt plate where a bolt on neck plate would be? The way the neck connects to the body is odd but works well.

Great video

That’s a great little git-box. I’ve got a ‘62 and I love it. Been looking for another. What mic are you using there? It sounds great.

Just bought mine 8 hrs. ago! Identical to yours!

Ok, so when did Leo fender sell his company again?

I have one of those guitars! the body is a one piece mahogany with tons of character, the nut is adjustable for perfect height, the tuners on mine were changed to Grovers before I bought it, they work perfectly, the P90S pickups have magnatized pole pieces like a strat, for a little extra clarity compared to regular P90 pickups. The neck is a sixteenth wider than normal on each side, but the string spacing is the same, so there is a little extra room which helps keep the high E string from slipping off the neck , or for finger style playing, it's a great guitar!

I think it was the paper thin neck that caused me to do play them anymore

EKO was an Italian company, not a Japanese one. Crucianelli originally made their guitars but Japanese makers copied Vox and other makes. Vox and others made a deal with the Japanese manufacturers to stop "pirating" their designs in exchange for manufacturing those same guitars for the original manufacturers under license.

Do you know how many jokes there are about Russian guitars? They're the worst guitars in human history. Those guitars were made as weapons! You break it on stage - goodbye stage. They were made to put people off rock 'n' roll. They were used instead of hammers to put nails in the wall. These guitars were so shit that professional musicians never actually used them. They're the reason why in Russian rock, which I love, the rhythm guitar used to be acoustic (think DDT, Aquarium, Kino, and many other amazing Russian 80s bands. Even later legends, like Splin, still used a lot of acoustic). When electric guitars were used, it was usually the East German Musima or the Czech Jolana, which were at least payable. I'm sorry you had to experience it. Basically, if communism was a musical instrument - that was it.

Tbh more think of Johnny marr

This guitar makes me think of a Gretsch. Are the D-Tron pickups Deusenberg’s interpretation of a FilterTron pickup? Has anyone else noticed this? If so, would love to see a side by side comparison with a Gretsch Duo Jet.

I own a 60’ (Kay)True Tone speed Demon 573 with overwound original speed bump pickups. It is a beast of a guitar. Very versatile as well.

Love this guitar

I love the sound of these Guitars

25 years ago I got the baby brother of that T60, the T-15; I think it was 23" scale, and still heavy as heck. I was going to stay for a week at the Bronx VA hospital to visit a friend, a WWII combat vet who was turning 98, and I had published a website about his time in the service in honor of his birthday. I decided to take the guitar along and donate it to the VA with a nice little Roland cube amp. I figured the small size would be good for vets who were recovering from physical issues. I hear they used to call the Peavey T-15 the Mississippi Mustang. It was a great little guitar. I carved Woody Guthrie's motto "This machine kills fascists" into the upper bout, and on the back wrote that it was donated by my friend to the VA. I sure hope they all got some good use out of it! Those USA made Peaveys were really well made guitars!

I love these 'below zero' sized Martins. Recently I was lucky enough to get myself a 1963 Martin 5-16 'Terz' guitar. I did take it in for her first neck reset, which worked out really well and now she plays like a champ. Incredibly loud for its diminutive size; mine has a spruce top over mahogany, and paddle headstock. I hope I can find myself one of these early slot head numbers; that mahogany one is just lovely...

Anybody ever figure out what brand that blue guitar was??

I wish you guys had pulled out and shown the cartridges. Is it possible to repair them with individual components or are the parts buried in epoxy potting? Because anybody that has vintage replacement cartridges probably wants an arm and a leg for them, even though they're now 50 years old and might be defective. It would be helpful to know if they're actually repairable.....

That's not a chicken-head, it's a Raytheon knob, often used on test gear and military equipment. I have a bunch of them, bought cheap at ham-radio fests.

" Flange" as a musical term comes from the wow and flutter and slowing down of a reel to reel tape as you press your fingers along the edge of the reel while the tape is in motion.

I’ve never seen one with a black headstock and Mapleglo finish. Did it come from the factory that way? I know the blacked out hardware, pickguard/nameplate and binding was an option in the eighties. It certainly could be factory as I’ve seen many unusual combinations from RIckenbacker over the years including combinations that I have only seen one of. Custom work without customer provocation seems to be a factory tradition at Rickenbacker.

wow this review is full of misinformation.

Nice review. I would very much like to see a closeup picture of that peculiar thumbrest.

Do you know of what strings I should use for a similar guitar?

Bright and crisp, bassy also

Scale Length?

If you want something lighter get a Horizon 1 it has the same wiring with a strat shaped body I love mine.

Does the P90 neck pickup have 60 cycle hum?

Great video! Old Peavey stuff is awesome! Quirky retro cool! I'm a huge fan of their basses too. Hartley Peavey's story is pretty interesting. He's definitely an icon.

Nice playing, Jason!

The explanation provided in the first minutes of this video are factually inaccurate as to the reason there were Japanese copies of American instruments being produced int he 70s ad 80s. There was zero "offshoring" by American guitar manufacturers in the lawsuit era. If they'd been commission for cheap labor and materials by GIbson et al, there would be no 'lawsuit'. The truth is the Japanese currency was very depressed in the 60s and young college kids becoming interested in owning Les Pauls and Strats could never afford them. So some entrepreneurial luthiers and investors created the broad swath of brands that produced arguably better quality American guitars, almost entirely on their own independent of any input from them, until Gibson sued Ibanez and lost. After that, it was "If you can't beat em, join em" for both companies with Fender Japan starting in 82/83 at Fujigen (Ibanez,, Greco, etc) and Gibson producing their Orville line (Gibson was already a registered copyright by another unrelated company in Japan at the time) at another well-reputed factory. This distinction is important in that it only further emphasizes the point that these early Japanese-designed guitars were of high build quality with solid electronics even before lawsuit companies began filling the demand for the American guitars played by the Beatles and then everyone after them. It is remarkable that they applied this lutherie to copies that were themselves as good as the originals. When we think of "knock offs" made China, Indonesia and Korea, it is in the usual sense of profiteering off other's work using cheap materials and approximations of the design and build of the originals. In Japan, by contrast, there is an ethic that people strive to based on imitation of their master of any given craft - as the path to one's own mastery, one must walk the journey of their predecessors. With that, profit is not a primary consideration, they know it will come with quality anyway. Iterative design. This, by the way, is why 7 out of 10 vehicles on American highways today is Japanese. We always getting owned by that country!~

Rites of spring isn’t emo bruh

It definitely does sound like the electric guitar sound which we heard in movies and music in the 80s when the culture was allowed to open up. I heard it and I still think it sounds like crap.

What pedals are you using. I've owned a few of the 1420 models and they definitely don't sound like that without an overdrive or distortion pedal

I have the same guitar. 64 Fender Mustang in Olympic White. All original to the screw. And... my Mustang neck is also dated 8 Aug 1964. They must have been sitting right next to each other in the assembly line!

Richard Hoover is the very first to speak the words and has the same conviction I've always had about how to approach a guitar build! From looking and studying the materials of violin making to knowing the age of the wood with regard to the growth rings, etc. There’s no detail, regarding materials and what they will do overlooked. His belief in only using old growth and not wanting to participate in the destruction of the Amazon forest also appeals very much to me. Finally someone who understands and actually practices what he preaches! That's what I call being professional and staying true to your values and beliefs. It simply cannot be better. Kudos to this man and his fellow luthiers and other employees who run an awesome company. And the fact that they are also a custom shop and can build the ideal guitar for everyone with their own specific wishes is the icing on the cake!

This video makes me not wanna buy one , I was about, tho, thanks

the pickups... are they really microphonic by design?

Nice playing! I've had this H1215 in my basement collecting dust...just realized it's a gem! Thanks for posting!

I found 1960 written on the white part under the strings, is that the truth about what year the guitar I'm holding was made?

The secret to making these things sound good is really heavy strings. I have baritone strings on mine with standard e tuning

cool

Great clean tone portion- it’s what the guitar actually sounds like. Thanks!

Hi guys, I truly love that guitar. I believe that I just purchased that guitar from elderly instruments in Lansing MI last week. Would love to hear about how you found it and when you sold it. jimi

I own a 1994 D-16T. Great Guitar. They have a mortise and tenon neck joint and also the bracing is different,,,hybrid bracing. Things they have incorporated into other models,

I like PRS guitars because you can drop them on their head and they stay in tune! : Daniel Johns singer for Silverchair

Squires didn't come out as early as 1981. It was the Bullet series that came out.

The USSR is super!