What is "svt"

SVT was a San Francisco power pop/ new wave band from the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are perhaps best remembered for their bassist Jack Casady, who had played in both Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. Other members were singer Brian Marnell, drummer Bill Gibson (later of Huey Lewis and the News, replaced by Paul Zahl), and Nick Buck, also a Hot Tuna veteran, on keyboards .

The group is said to have taken its name from the medical condition known as supraventricular tachycardia. A more plausible explanation is that the name was taken from a model of bass guitar amplifier, the Ampeg Super Vacuum Tube.

SVT recorded two singles in 1979, one EP in 1980, and one album, No Regrets, in 1981. They were one of the first bands ever to record on North America's first punk label. San Francisco's 415 Records released their single, Heart of Stone, in 1979. The group disbanded after both Zahl and Casady left to form Yanks with Jack Johnson and Owen Masterson. Casady later quit Yanks and was replaced by bassist Steve Aliment. Brian Marnell died in 1983. Casady's former Jefferson Airplane bandmate Marty Balin covered the song Heart of Stone on his album, Lucky in 1983.

SVT may refer to:

• Superfluid vacuum theory in physics
• Scalar-vector-tensor decomposition in cosmology
• Sveriges Television, public broadcaster in Sweden
• Ampeg SVT, Super Valve Technology amplifier
• Special Vehicle Team, division of the Ford Motor Company
• DRG Class SVT 877 and DRG Class SVT 137, a series of streamlined diesel trainsets of the former Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft
• Sequential Valve Timing
• Supraventricular tachycardia, an abnormal heart condition
• SVT-40, Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva, a WW2 semi-automatic rifle
• SVT (band), an early-1980s American rock band
• Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei, or the Fijian Political Party, a political party in Fiji
• Stolen Vehicle Tracking
• Sudbury Valley Trustees, a regional land trust in eastern Massachusetts
• System validation testing, a component of system testing
• Site-value tax or site-valuation tax, a term for Land value tax
• Train station code for Sturtevant (Amtrak station)
• IATA airport code for Savuti Airport in Botswana