Lynyrd Skynyrd in a box? Mace preamp.

[Saul Goodman]

Get your Rebel Flag, some JD, and Marlborough Reds ready.

 

[RobB]

Skynyrd's crew hated that Peavey gear. The tube amps constantly blew up, totally unroadworthy. The bass gear was solid, it's said.

[Dutchman]

I played thru a Mace for a few shows. It had EV speakers in it. FOH guy threatened to pour gas on it and burn it if he saw it on the backline again. Next show I was sporting a Boogie.

 

Edited Tuesday at 10:17 PM by Dutchman

[Steve Haynie]

26 minutes ago, Dutchman said:

I played thru a Mace for a few shows. It had EV speakers in it. FOH guy threatened to pour gas on it and burn it if he saw it on the backline again. Next show I was sporting a Boogie.

 

Hopefully it was a Boogie coliseum head.  😁 

 

I watched that video earlier today.  I want that pedal if it ever comes out.  

There is a Mace at my house.  It is fun to crank, but not to move.  There are cars that weigh less.

 

Edited Tuesday at 10:44 PM by Steve Haynie

[Dutchman]

Just now, Steve Haynie said:

Hopefully it was a Boogie coliseum head.  😁

No it was a Mark llB. 50 watt. 

[velorush]

Waiting for the new Rhett Shull video, "What is the Peavey Mace Sound?"

[Saul Goodman]

58 minutes ago, velorush said:

Waiting for the new Rhett Shull video, "What is the Peavey Mace Sound?"

Fuck Rhett Shull.

[BoogieMKIIA]

The other guitar player in the band (1970 something) had a 2x12 Mace combo.  Heavy, loud and rocked. Definitely its own tone. Solid state preamp and six 6L6 output tubes. The built in phaser was kinda weird, but it was the 70s.

[RobB]

19 minutes ago, BoogieMKIIA said:

Solid state preamp and six 6L6 output tubes. The built in phaser was kinda weird, but it was the 70s.

Yep, “Call Me the Breeze.” Ick. 

[Hackubus]

My first amp was a Peavey Mace combo.  How I talked my mom into buying that heavy sumbitch for me still amazes me.  

Edited Wednesday at 02:46 AM by Hackubus

[Kookaburra]

I knew someone who gigged a couple Mace half stacks for years.  It sounded good for his type of metal.

[scottcald]

On 8/11/2026 at 4:56 PM, Saul Goodman said:

Get your Rebel Flag, some JD, and Marlborough Reds ready.

 

I instantly discount anyone holding a clip on mic, especially after having just had it clipped on. Clearly shows you don't know how to work the gear you have. 

[Steve Haynie]

Tom knows his Skynyrd inside and out.  He gets a pass from me on holding the clip on mic.  

 

Lynyrd Skynyrd did not use the Peavey amps on the early albums.  Ed King said he used Marshall while he was in the band.  

[RobB]

10 hours ago, Steve Haynie said:

Tom knows his Skynyrd inside and out.  He gets a pass from me on holding the clip on mic.

No pass here. I’ve cut audio feeds of CEOs who tried that bullshit. Lavalier mics are designed to be clipped on to clothing, 4-6”, from the neck.

Sign of an amateur. 

[Dave Scepter]

14 minutes ago, RobB said:

No pass here. I’ve cut audio feeds of CEOs who tried that bullshit.

Fuk'n Nazi 🤣

[RobB]

3 minutes ago, Dave Scepter said:

Fuk'n Nazi 🤣

Nah. More like Tito. I allow some freedoms (mostly in the arts), but the iron fist will be implemented when necessary. 

[Saul Goodman]

6 minutes ago, RobB said:

Nah. More like Tito. I allow some freedoms (mostly in the arts), but the iron fist will be implemented when necessary. 

Karen

[Jakeboy]

Yup early Skynyrd was plexis and Ed would use a Twin to carve out different sonic space from Allen & Gary with his Strat.

Live they were hardcore Peavey guys. Gary honestly loved them.

[RobB]

13 minutes ago, Jakeboy said:

Yup early Skynyrd was plexis and Ed would use a Twin to carve out different sonic space from Allen & Gary with his Strat.

Live they were hardcore Peavey guys. Gary honestly loved them.

Word. The early Muscle Shoals tracks (with Bob Burns/Rickey Medlocke drumming) have great guitar tones. I think they went back and redid/cleaned up some things for actual release, but the original recordings on, "First (and Last)", are prolly my faves. "...Bullets" and, "Street Survivors", are killer, too. 

I dig LS, but like a lot of classic rock, a little goes a long way these days:

Dude: "Ay, man. Who DOESN'T love me some, 'Freebird?'

Bro: "Ah, I reckon. Sounds great the first 50,000 times, at least."

[velorush]

Growing up redneck, I am just now getting to where I don't turn the channel when Skynyrd comes on.

It isn't because it isn't good, but they were among around three bands we listened to drinking beer in the potato fields in high school.

Skynyrd, Bob Seger and maybe 38 Special. Love them but just can't give them any more time. 

[Steve Haynie]

Classic rock radio overplayed a lot of good music.  Those songs can get... um, "tiresome" on the radio.  In the context of an album they sound great.  

[Dave Scepter]

18 minutes ago, velorush said:

Growing up redneck, I am just now getting to where I don't turn the channel when Skynyrd comes on.

It isn't because it isn't good, but they were among around three bands we listened to drinking beer in the potato fields in high school.

Skynyrd, Bob Seger and maybe 38 Special. Love them but just can't give them any more time. 

I know exactly what you're saying, but I didn't grow up as a redneck... oh also Molly Hatchet

15 minutes ago, Steve Haynie said:

Classic rock radio overplayed a lot of good music.  Those songs can get... um, "tiresome" on the radio.  In the context of an album they sound great.  

💯% agree 👍 

[Saul Goodman]

Total opposite for me. I hated that shit growing up, well, high school. The backwoods people, fat guts, no shirt, Rebel flags and shotguns in their trucks. Deep brow. Square head. No proper English. Backy-chewin' twang voice. Tearing up fields in their trucks. Drive inn. Always causing fights. I was at a friend's gig in a field somewhere when I was maybe 20, their band wasn't great, but they were the hired band, and a bunch of those fat-belly slobs stormed the stage, took over the instruments, and started playing some sort of redneck Southern Rock. Really pissed us off and nearly caused a ruckus. I don't remember how it ended. I may have gotten in my car and left.

I severely hated it. LS, Molly, Black Foot, etc. I mean, it would make me angry.

Now I like it. Weird, eh? I mean, I don't blast it from my car like they blasted it from their trucks. But if it comes on a movie score, or I hear it in the grocery, or shows up on YouTube, it's kind of nostalgic. I haven't listened to the radio in 50 years. It was shit then and, if it's still around, I'm sure it's shit now. I don't own any Southern Rock albums / CDs so, that's that. But I keep my cowboy chords up playing Freebird fairly often.