![]() Peaveys rock solid products slowed in some ways their own sales as its not needed to replace a product that is still working. The big push to put a car in every garage was gone. Not only that but used cars (pa systems) were now everywhere. ![]() Soon there were so many cars that no one company ruled the roost anymore. The slice of pie got smaller and smaller. Time marched on and of course if there was money to be made more companies joined in. Great products at just the right time in the market. They ran well and opened the door to many who never were able to use a product like these before. You could think of these like a ford model T. These were priced for the "working,gigging" bands to afford and would hold up. There is still some 150 watt sp2's and the 4 rack space CS800 amps being used locally around here today. Peavey came out with some very solid, reliable products like the SP2 and CS800 amp. Solid state PA systems were still fairly new. The U.S was getting ready to land on the moon in a few years. More than anything it just shows how times have changed. I enjoyed it for the first few episodes I saw a couple of years back, but I quickly tired of it because the formula was so exactly the same every episode and too many of the shows started to seem not only scripted, but seeming of a boss who decides he wants to do the show just in order to get free advertising for the company. Can you imagine anyone being asked to ration anything for a war effort in 2015? Our "commitment" is often no deeper than maybe a Yellow Ribbon sticker on the back of a gas-guzzling SUV and a dozen or so "likes" per day for tough-sounding rhetoric on Facebook.Īs far as Undercover Boss goes, maybe I'll look up this episode just because its Peavey but I'm not much of a fan of this show. We complain of "existential threats" on par with WWII all around the world, but don't want to be taxed to pay for the wars and don't want a draft in case we or our own children might get called up to fight. We want luxury items but don't want to pay for them, so we source it all out overseas and then complain that there are no good paying jobs in America. Not to get too far off topic, but I think that when the decline of America is written sometime in the future it will have a lot to do with our present "want everything for nothing" mentality. Sure they need it and I am not knocking someone that needs help getting it but in the big picture, I doubt that things change that much for most people in spite of what might be said. It always amuses me that three of four people get picked to be the recipients of the bosses generosity and pretty much every one else gets naff all. Each to his own but WTF comes to mind, not company leader.Īs for the Undercover boss show itself, well. ![]() Hartley seems like a guy that has made his money by being in the right place at the right time and now just wants to have some fun and I cannot blame him for that but he's not kept up with the times or his company IMO (not that he cares about my opinion), why else would he NOT want to go into the LA store? And the son in law, lives in a house on an industrial estate with bees. I find it hard to believe they did not appear to know they might even be considering closing that factory when they were there 'undercover' which is why it sucks so much about the guy that turned down a good job offer to stay and then got shafted so on that item, as managers and company owners, they suck but in general, they really are not any worse than anyone else. Put that next to the garbage they sell us now and Joe Smoe will pick the cheap unhealthy one most of the time. they 'could' produce better tasting and healthier food bit it would cost a bit more. Just go into Walmart and look at how much stuff ISN'T made here and then look at how well Walmart does.Įven the fat food industry has proved that we want cheap. Even big ticket items that we are prepared to pay more for have to be produced offshore just to keep the price reasonable but that does not put money in US employees pockets. In general we want CHEAP and sadly that usually means it will be produced offshore. In reality it all comes down to us, the consumer. No wonder they cannot keep up on price but at least they tried to keep everything in the US. I thought their manufacturing processes were a bit outdated, manual soldering of boards, manual assembly of boards into a unit to test them, then take it all apart, then do it all again with the next one. There was a big backlash after the Peavey show with everyone saying "I'm never buying Peavey" etc etc but isn't that just going to make it worse for the company and it's employees. ![]()
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