Bad news for Peavey
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Virgman
Taco of Death
Inevitable.
Does anyone other than Marvel comic fans buy Peavey guitars? Not that their guitars are no good but their marketing program sucks.
What famous/well known players use Peavey guitars since EVH? Amps certainly but guitars?
They need to get their act together in the guitar thing. They should have got John Mayer to endorse them.
Does anyone other than Marvel comic fans buy Peavey guitars? Not that their guitars are no good but their marketing program sucks.
What famous/well known players use Peavey guitars since EVH? Amps certainly but guitars?
They need to get their act together in the guitar thing. They should have got John Mayer to endorse them.
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Sucks that people lost their jobs and all that, but I guess I'm not surprised. Since EVH left, Peavey hasn't really had much that interested me guitar and amp wise on the higher end of products. I also have noticed the lower end solid state market they used to dominate is very crowded these days.
vintage clubber
You gunky!
:( A Delta Blues 1-15 is still on my amp wish list...:(
Tig
Fucktangular
I watched a few minutes of that last night, including the end.
Sorry, but Peavey needs to reorganize itself and focus on core business, but without shipping any jobs to fucking China. This bullshit practice is completely unacceptable. There is a balance between profits and taking care of your people that can be met if competent leadership is in place.
Fuck Peavey management in their fucking meat head faces.
Sorry, but Peavey needs to reorganize itself and focus on core business, but without shipping any jobs to fucking China. This bullshit practice is completely unacceptable. There is a balance between profits and taking care of your people that can be met if competent leadership is in place.
Fuck Peavey management in their fucking meat head faces.
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Virgman
Taco of Death
Overseas manufacturing is here to stay. No way around it. Embrace it.
Make good stuff. Market the heck out of it. People will buy it. It doesn't matter where it's made.
You can't competitively make anything in the USA anymore unless it's made by robots. Even then it's tough. Sure you can make boutique guitars that sell for several thousand dollars but mass produced guitars? Forget it unless you use robots.
For example, the Ford truck plant in Michigan still "assembles" trucks but with only a handful of employees. It's really an automated assembly line with a few human over-seers.
Make good stuff. Market the heck out of it. People will buy it. It doesn't matter where it's made.
You can't competitively make anything in the USA anymore unless it's made by robots. Even then it's tough. Sure you can make boutique guitars that sell for several thousand dollars but mass produced guitars? Forget it unless you use robots.
For example, the Ford truck plant in Michigan still "assembles" trucks but with only a handful of employees. It's really an automated assembly line with a few human over-seers.
Tig
Fucktangular
Virgman
Taco of Death
Well, you just made my point. The Wilson leather footballs used by the NCAA are about $70.
That is not a cheap football by any means and you probably won't see the local kids using one in their backyards or throwing it around in the street (unless their high income parents buy them one).
You probably won't see kids throwing around official NFL leather footballs that cost about $90.
Those are boutique footballs.
The affordable Wilson NCAA composite footballs that cost about $15-$20 are made overseas.
If you live in the Hamptons I suppose you could see kids throwing around an expensive football.
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Peavey has always made some really good stuff and buried it under a steaming pile of garbage stuff.
instantsteve
Glowing Cloud
Same here. I can't justify it on any level, but I want one to go with my T-60's. Besides, the Delta Blues and Classic 30's define tone for some people. I had a chance for a used Classic 30 the day I got my first T-60. Not enough money at the time.
It may be inevitable, but it is a colossal bummer all the same.
If anything they held on longer than most other companies without doing a single import product.
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
It's true. While "fugue" in music has the meaning we're most familiar, in psychiatry it means, "a disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed". We are indeed living fugal lives in the current economy.