Back in high school in the early eighties I played with a bass player who had a Peavey amp and right in the middle of a concert something exploded and his 4 spe

Back in high school in the early eighties I played with a bass player who had a Peavey amp and right in the middle of a concert something exploded and his 4 speakers all blew out. Luckily there was another guy who could loan his amp but our bass player was pretty upset (and broke) so I offered to try to repair his amp and we all chipped in for new speakers. Anyway, this guy had a bird and its usually open cage was usually on top of the amp, which had a ventilation grill on top. When I opened up the amp it was full of bird poop baked onto everything. I like to think the poop had something to do with the failure because I really like Peavey stuff in general. After a thorough cleaning it didn't take long to figure out that the filter caps after the rectifier of the power supply had blown and a huge 50Hz (Germany) ripple was sent out to the speakers. I got some caps with more margin (the original parts only had 3V of margin over the worst case expected surge) and with the new speakers we were back in business. Fast forward 30 years and I'm now a bass player myself and I have to say that Peavey is still great for budget gear, especially their basses. Of course there's really nice budget gear in general now, due to China and the general downward prices on electronics. I go to a country jam now and then and the bass player there has a ton of vintage gear (he's pretty vintage himself) but for everyday playing at the jam there's of course a Peavey combo that works great every time.