"Undercover Boss" Peavey Episode...

[Strat Avenger]

Did you guys see it?

Kind'a makes me not want to buy anything from Peavey.  :-\

 

[mayfly]

I dunno - I thought it was pretty cool that they did that.

 

[DangerousR6]

I've never been impressed with their guitars, but their amps have always been really good. I've owned quite a few over the years...

 

[Cagey]

Same here. Some of their early solid-state amps would make you cringe when you heard them, but that was typical of the breed at the time. On the plus side, they were louder than hell, could be very clean, didn't cost much, and could be carried without a forklift.

 

[Re-Pete]

It would be months  - if at all - if I saw it in Australia, but luckily it's up on YT..  :icon_thumright:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UDDG8sGdtk

The company doesn't come off too well judging by the comments section....

 

[Neo Fender]

Pathetic.  Beginning around 1978, my first two amps (a Decade and a Renown) and two guitars (T-60s) were Peavey products.  Peavey is now a shell of its former self. 

Their “Building 3” looked like a beat down ghost town.  I get the challenge with competing against overseas labor.  The only way the US can currently maintain and edge is on heavy and large to ship items (e.g. amp heads, combos and speaker cabinets) which seems to be the only area where Peavey can currently survive.  Their new micro head offerings announced during  the latest NAMM are Asian built.  In contrast, Carvin (which in my mind, is the nearest peer to Peavey) offers an all-tube, 50 watt, three channel head for $549 and it is made in the USA.

Nothing personal against Hartley, but to the rest of the uninitiated US TV audience, he came across as a careless redneck who can’t be bothered to trim his eyebrows or tuck in his shirt.  It seems that he turned a corner (for the worse) following the death of his second wife.  His current wife Mary is now President and (if I heard correctly, her son) Courtland Gray is COO.  This whole contrived relationship seems to be one born of convenience.  In keeping Peavey relevant and vital in the current business and economical climate, Hartley would have been better off going outside the company instead of keeping it inside the (step) family.  This show was bad publicity for the Peavey gang.   

 

[Jet-Jaguar]

I think the real controversy was how Peavey acted after the show.  I mean, they acted like they were trying to save the company's US facilities, when were already in plans to close them.

 

[Strat Avenger]

Nothing against Carvin (I own some Carvin stuff), but while their stuff is manufactured in USA, which I think is cool, I believe that many of the components are made in Asian countries. Perhaps even China.

 

[Neo Fender]

I don't doubt it.

Nothing against Carvin (I own some Carvin stuff), but while their stuff is manufactured in USA, which I think is cool, I believe that many of the components are made in Asian countries. Perhaps even China.

 

[Re-Pete]

Nothing against Carvin (I own some Carvin stuff), but while their stuff is manufactured in USA, which I think is cool, I believe that many of the components are made in Asian countries. Perhaps even China.

Begs another question... How micro detailed & anally retentive do you get with the component's origins?

For some specialised components there must only be a few manufacturers of them, worldwide, so your choices are probably limited somewhere in the signal chain & you have to be lucky if the whole circuit's components are still made in the USA.