buddy emmons peavey renown amp ??

Paul Wade · Post by **Paul Wade** » 4 Jul 2017 11:38 am

did buddy ever play thru a peavey renown 400 amp??
i have a L.P with him next to looks like a renown amp

any body know or saw him play thru a renown 400 amp

p.w

Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 4 Jul 2017 10:11 pm

Never saw him use a Rnown. Doesn't mean he never did. I can't imagine why he would unless he was in a pinch. During the era leading up to that LP. He used Session 500's. Yes 2 of them when he could get them. When in the states. I'm thinking he traveled with one 500 and borrowed a 2nd when possible.

The picture is of course staged. Maybe he had one at the house. Which would be easier to drag out for a photo than a Session 500. Maybe someone there at the photo shoot happened to have one in their car? I can only guess. Tommy White and Johnny Cox, just to name two. Were blessed to be around him way more than me. Maybe they'll chime in.

b.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 5 Jul 2017 8:22 am

He did hasten to assure us that Peggy wasn't hefting an Emmons pp in a case - the case was empty.

Tiny Olson · Post by **Tiny Olson** » 8 Jul 2017 4:36 am

I could be big-time mistaken but I'm pretty sure that the amp on the cover of that LP was a Session 500. I recall what Roger said as well, that Peggy was hefting an empty case for the photo. I also believe Buddy used the first LeGrande on this entire album, probably through a Session 500. Bobby is right on about Buddy using Session 500s during that time frame.

No matter what... it's a very cool cover shot and a very great LP...!!!

Chris "Tiny" O.

Graham Bland · Post by **Graham Bland** » 11 Jul 2017 5:41 pm

Tiny is right! That is a Session 500.

I have one and my kids will have to sell it after I'm gone!

Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 11 Jul 2017 6:42 pm

My eye's aren't what they used to be. Never gave it a second thought till Paul started this topic. But I don't see the logo on the amp as reading Session 500. Maybe it's power of suggestion. But it looks to read more like Renown to me.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 11 Jul 2017 7:38 pm

It's not a Renown. The Renown had (2) 12" speakers. The amp on the cover has a single 15". Buddy played a Session 500 on the "One for the Road" album and on gigs in that era, so there's a good chance that the amp on the cover is a 500.

Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 11 Jul 2017 8:37 pm

The amp on the cover of"One For the Road"is in fact a Renown...

There were several of them with 1 15" floating around Nashville in the'80s...

Never saw Buddy with that amp around town,just in his driveway...

Steve
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Graham Bland · Post by **Graham Bland** » 11 Jul 2017 8:45 pm

Wow....cool!

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 12 Jul 2017 4:23 am

Session 500 is my favorite amp .... or at least it was when I was younger, and was able to pick it up....

Bobby Boggs · Post by **Bobby Boggs** » 12 Jul 2017 6:36 am

The amp on the cover of"One For the Road"is in fact a Renown...

Guess, my eye's aren't as bad as I thought.

b

Ernie Renn · Post by **Ernie Renn** » 12 Jul 2017 9:53 am

It was a Renown with a 15" speaker on the album cover. He did use it for a while. At the time I think it was a new model for Peavey. He said he liked it, but liked the sound of the Session 400 and Vegas better.

Tiny Olson · Post by **Tiny Olson** » 12 Jul 2017 2:17 pm

Thanks to Steve and Ernie for the clarification.

That's really cool, now I'm going to have to dig the album out and look at the cover as I'd never noticed that about the amp. Do either of you know which guitar/s Buddy used on "One For The Road"..??

Somewhere along the way I'd gotten the impression it was the first or second LeGrande.

I was in off the road for a day or two and Don Barr and myself went to visit Herby Remington at his shop. The three of us listened to this album together for the first time. It was brand new, just released and Herby had just gotten it. We were all knocked-out by it and Herby was just raving about Buddy's tone. I remember him calling it "absolutely delicious". A very cool memory for me, I can still picture that day like it was yesterday..!!

Chris "Tiny" O.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 12 Jul 2017 7:20 pm

I bought the album when it came out, 1982 I believe, and I was blown away by the rich, full tone of Buddy's steel. Sounded like stereo steel, mixed right out front. The phase shifter sounded like the Session 500's onboard phaser. On the back of the album Buddy mentions Luca Music in Rhode Island where he played a show the year before. I was at that show and heard Buddy play some of the songs that were on the album. Same incredible, fat tone live, Session 500 with his box full of effects. A great memory.

Jack Stanton · Post by **Jack Stanton** » 13 Jul 2017 3:55 am

Tiny,
Pretty sure the guitar was the Rosewood SKH Legrand with Pentad pickups. When that guitar came on the market a few years back I had Bobby Bowman put me in touch with Buddy who confirmed that. The Pentads have a very bright single coil setting which I'm pretty sure he used throughout the album. There's a timbre to that guitar that I can hear, especially on cuts like Every Time You Touch Me and Linus & Lucy.
Alas, it doesn't make me sound like Buddy Emmons...

Graham Bland · Post by **Graham Bland** » 13 Jul 2017 10:23 am

Jack,

Did Buddy have a pet name for that guitar like he did later for "Brown Bart & Black Bart"?

Jack Stanton · Post by **Jack Stanton** » 13 Jul 2017 12:12 pm

Graham,
Not that I know of, but it was the first guitar he put a rose on.

Ernie might know more about it than I do.

Ernie Renn · Post by **Ernie Renn** » 13 Jul 2017 1:07 pm

I don't recall him naming that guitar. I named my rosewood LeGrande with the rose, Rosie. Bill Nauman in Vegas has it now.

I'm pretty sure the album was done using both the black prototype and the rosewood LeGrande.

I'm doubtful about the Pentad pickups. I think those came later. I could be wrong.

It does sound a little like the 500 phase shifter, but he sure did like the MXR Phase 90. I'd have to re-listen for it...

Tiny Olson · Post by **Tiny Olson** » 13 Jul 2017 2:49 pm

Jack and Ernie... Thanks for the info. I can't remember who told me that Buddy had used the new LeGrande Guitar on that album. I think it may have been Herby.

I agree, the timbre and tone on "Every Time You Touch Me" was just astounding. The whole album was awesome... what else would happen with Buddy playing I guess.

Buddy was kind enough to let me play through his 500s several times on TV shows where he was the staff player and we were guests . I left the settings just as he had them... out of respect and hoping to sound like him, falling woefully short..!! I never owned a Session 500 but I liked them and the phase-shifter. I saw the MXR Buddy also had (like Ernie said) so I went out and got one.

Chris "Tiny" O.

Graham Bland · Post by **Graham Bland** » 13 Jul 2017 3:33 pm

The world is not the same without Buddy Emmons in it sad to say.

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 14 Jul 2017 1:06 pm

A classic example of Buddy using the phase shifter on his Session 500 playing "You Are So Beautiful".
Recorded at Jeffran around '87 with David Smith on bass, Sid Hudson on guitar and John Stacey on drums.
I recorded this on a Tascam 2 speed cassette recorder with a direct line out of Buddy's Session 500:
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Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 14 Jul 2017 2:54 pm

I saw Buddy at the Jeffran show about 1984, same band, David, Sid.

I don't hear much phase shifting nowadays. Back in the 70s and 80s every guitarist (and a lot of steel guitarists) had an MXR Phase 90. I used one for years. Now they sound old fashioned to my ears!

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 14 Jul 2017 4:30 pm

Thinking back, I love it that Buddy and Jeff got together. Those were some really great years.
Quick story: One time. I was leaving Nashville, after a Jeffran session, I gassed up in Hermitage. Water in the gas tank. I called Jeff Newman (from a payphone) and he came to interstate 440 and helped me. I miss them both.

Dan Beller-McKenna · Post by **Dan Beller-McKenna** » 15 Jul 2017 11:55 am

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