Today's Gallery piece first saw light in the pages of Keyboard Magazine's March, 1990 issue. While not known principally for keyboards, the Peavey corporation tried their hand with the floppy drive-included DPM3 seventeen years ago. The DPM3 still has some fans and Peavey still offers the effects, programs and sequences for the instrument at their website, but the schizophrenic art direction in this marketing campaign is thankfully long gone.

Dan Agosto: "You girls wait here. . . we're going to go play." What a confused time it must have been that the term "play" was a valid substitute for superior terms like "rock" or "thrash" or "melt some faces." Although the question "Why are these guys here?" is answered in this ad, it raises many other more disturbing questions.

Rob Warmowski: Okay, guys, look tough. (click, click) Tougher. (click, click) Hold up the keyboard higher, Darryl. (click, click) Ladies? Stand still back there, please. Thank you. (click) Darryl, more pout and less glower. I need sexy-tough and you're giving me pissed-off. (click) More Johnny Depp and less roadie, okay? I know, I know it's heavy, just a few more minutes. (click click)