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Peavey Logo - I like it or I don't

As far as the Peavey logo goes:

  • It is perfect and does what it was designed to do very well

    Votes: 127 50.6%

  • I like it but feel another design could be equally effective

    Votes: 36 14.3%

  • I dislike it and feel a more effective logo could be designed

    Votes: 46 18.3%

  • I dislike it and in general I dislike Peavey for some reason

    Votes: 42 16.7%
  • Total voters
    251
#61
About 15 years ago, when I thought I was such a mature performing artist :rolleyes: , I was very glad when Peavey starting putting their new block logo on certain products. In fact, the only Peavey gear I own at the moment has that block logo on it. Nowadays, I'm sort of fond of the old logo. Where I come from, it represents cheezy 80's tone sucking garbage. But the 50-60's Sci-fi reference...I can see it now, and love it! :)
 
#62
Points of interest (well, maybe to somebody:p):

Internally, the "old" logo is known as the lightning bolt logo. The new lightning logo (past 5 years or so) is called the "oval logo" or "oval lightning" because now it is always seen in an oval frame for brand identity.

The old block logo was known as the "delta squiggle" because of the triangle with the squiggle graphic that accompanies the word Peavey. That logo was originally created for Eddie Van Halen in the early 90's because he didn't want the lightning bolt on his 5150 stacks. That logo was also said to be the preference of Melia Peavey (former company president and Hartley's former wife who passed away), so it became THE Peavey logo for a while. There is still a large delta squiggle logo on the front of the corporate office building.
 
#64
TreetarDed said:
I for one think the peavey logo is awesome. So does everyone I know personally too. That may be because I only hang out with people from the "metal" crowd though.
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Exactly. I love the look of it and can't imagine why people seem to feel so 'threatened' by it?? I mean when you yank the thing off because you can stand it being there, you are threatened somehow by it. And definitely people who dislike it would probably not be a death metal guy like me, because the Peavey logo looks like the church lady's cursive writing compared to death metal band logos. Peavey logo haters would probably have a stroke trying to look at one of them for 5 seconds! :D :bassist:

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#65
Man, HR. I don't know what those Death Meal Logos say--I can make out "Phlegm" in the first one. Corporate, maybe?

The second one I'm abosolutely lost on. I do know I will see that in my sleep, tho.

As for the logo (the lightning one), I like it. I have some Peavey gear, I loved everything I have. Reliable as hell, and I do admit it has an amatuer stigma about it, some of that stuff you hear is 20+ years old. Might not be the sexyist stuff on the block, but their durability definitely has some appeal.
 
#66
PsyDocHill said:
It's strange. On the one hand, they moan about offshoring, and, oh how terrible it is that their fav Co. now does that, or off-borders, c?

But here we've got a Co. that, by and large, has stuck to its Mississippi, USA guns and tried as hard as it could to remain American when it's especially financially rought 2b so.

And this here Co. is in a region of the USA that has a history that's rough, very rough.

No wonder so many salivate on the money-hungry, Mexico-exploiting Cali Cos while spitting on the Ole-Miss one.

For many, it's masked South-Hatred.

Wanna flame me? Don't. First off, it won't bother this ol' DI...oh, for you "let others defend us" civvies, that's Drill Instructor, and make sure to call me 'Sergeant' if you dare address me anyhow.... Second, off! Last I checked one's allowed to express his/her ops here as long as no racism/sexism/ageism/other-ism is expressed.

PEAVEY, MERIDIAN, USA. You wanted a USA rather than a divided Union/Confederacy, right? But it still rubs some Yanks the wrong way that there's an honest company in MS, USA that cranks out durable, excellent musical instruments etc.

Tough: Here's what you tell us, right back @ you--Get Over the 'Civil' (oh-so-civil) War!

Let it go, Yankee Doodle. We're one country. Support what's left of our economy, even if it's not in CA.
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I see your thinly veiled (or not at all) hatred of CA. What the hell did we ever do to you? Posts like this are why I've grown to dislike the south.

As for the Peavey logo, I see nothing wrong with it at all. I happen to like Peavey a lot. My first bass was a Peavey, and I'm still using it. One of the PA's my band uses is a Peavey, and my guitarist's head and cab are big old Peavey.
 
#68
The Peavey logo makes me happy, but not because of what it looks like or any particular reason like that. As a logo, I could take it or leave it. It doesn't strike me as being in any sort of poor taste. Same with the Fender logo. They're just logos. Big deal!

No, the reason it makes me happy is because, every time I see it, I remember handing this middle-aged woman a $100 dollars for her son's used Peavey amp and cab. It was my first amp and cab, and hell, with its durability and tone, it may even be my last amp and cab. That's why I like the logo, because it reminds me of that moment of awesome.

Had it been a different logo, it would obviously elicit a different response from me.

:)
 
#70
T. Alan Smith said:
But the 50-60's Sci-fi reference...I can see it now, and love it! :)
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Absolutely! When I look at a cab, say a Peavey 215D with the aluminum strips, the aluminum dust cap BWs and the lightning bolt logo, sci-fi is exactly what I see. I mean imagine an ad with someone like Ace Frehely on a moon somewhere with stars in the back ground playing through an old school Peavey cab. Perfect. And really at the time 65-on we hadn't walked on the moon yet, etc. and Hartley really did help bring reliable, solid-state technology to the musician and it really was sort of like sci-fi, so the cabs looks were about the future, not the past...
 
#73
threatened by a logo? yes, i'm scared someone's going to yank it off a piece of gear and throw it at me like a chinese throwing star.

what a ridiculous statement...threatened by a logo. grow up, dude.
 
#74
JimmyM said:
threatened by a logo? yes, i'm scared someone's going to yank it off a piece of gear and throw it at me like a chinese throwing star.

what a ridiculous statement...threatened by a logo. grow up, dude.
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Ok then, who here has taken their Peavey logo off even though no one would ever see it - bedroom/practice amp, etc? That's the kind of thing you do if you just don't like it. Its no mystery why some people pull the logo off and hide it, yet when they buy some expensive boutique amp, even before it arrives, they start a thread bragging all about how they just bought it. For some its all about stature, whether you want to believe it or not...:rolleyes:
 
#76
hrgiger said:
Ok then, who here has taken their Peavey logo off even though no one would ever see it - bedroom/practice amp, etc?
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I have. ("lightning bolt" only)

Obviously, you like Peavey products and the Peavey logo, which is why you started and then resurrected this thread. Fine with me. Then when you got some disagreement here, you dismissed the contrarians as feeling "threatened" and concerned with image and "stature". Not so fine.

Consider the possibility that some of us really do think the logo is ugly, and we remove it because we like our gear to look good, not because we're ashamed to own Peavey. I like Peavey (see previous post), I just don't like Hartley's high school artwork. I do appreciate it's historical value.

As BbbyBld says, the delta squiggle logo was developed for Eddie Van Halen (maybe he also thought the lighting bolt logo was ugly), but it grew way beyond EVH gear. For a while, it was used across the entire product line. I was pleased. From talking to Peavey guys in the 90s, my impression was, there was mainly one guy keeping the old logo alive in that period. Guess who?

At the moment, the like/don't like split from your poll stands at 63%/37%. You win. But if I were a brand manager, these kind of numbers would not make me happy. I think Peavey's marketing guys have seen similar or worse before, but there's nothing they can do about it.


BbbyBld - thanks for your informative comments.
 
#77
1n3 said:
I have. ("lightning bolt" only)

Obviously, you like Peavey products and the Peavey logo, which is why you started and then resurrected this thread. Fine with me. Then when you got some disagreement here, you dismissed the contrarians as feeling "threatened" and concerned with image and "stature". Not so fine.

Consider the possibility that some of us really do think the logo is ugly, and we remove it because we like our gear to look good, not because we're ashamed to own Peavey. I like Peavey (see previous post), I just don't like Hartley's high school artwork. I do appreciate it's historical value.

As BbbyBld says, the delta squiggle logo was developed for Eddie Van Halen (maybe he also thought the lighting bolt logo was ugly), but it grew way beyond EVH gear. For a while, it was used across the entire product line. I was pleased. From talking to Peavey guys in the 90s, my impression was, there was mainly one guy keeping the old logo alive in that period. Guess who?

At the moment, the like/don't like split from your poll stands at 63%/37%. You win. But if I were a brand manager, these kind of numbers would not make me happy. I think Peavey's marketing guys have seen similar or worse before, but there's nothing they can do about it.


BbbyBld - thanks for your informative comments.
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Wow. You showed me. AFAIK neither the delta logo nor the block logo were designed for EVH - he may have preferred it, but both the block logo and the delta squiggle were designed for Peavey AMR and Architectural Acoustics and later found their way onto the consumer line after some debate. Bobby probably knows something about this, I'm just going by the Peavey book...

If you go here, you can read the page right from the book like I did, this page talks about both the block logo and the delta logo:

http://books.google.com/books?id=2nKLKDKa3K0C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=it+too+had+been+conceived+as+more+modern+Peavey&source=bl&ots=t7W5vLVUA5&sig=F48rPI2nhHIu6lgbqNGKJ0eG4e4&hl=en&ei=-xZFTILrIJCmnQex4cS7Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA

Okay back to the discussion, I just feel that people basically hide it because they feel that Peavey somehow stands for cheaper (which they are) and inferior (which very well may be especially when compared to high end stuff.) I feel that people hide it and don't like it because of that more than the design. I think that if some of the high end guys put a big chuck of dog stuff on there with their name in flies, they would never even mention it...
 
#79
1n3 said:
I have. ("lightning bolt" only)

Obviously, you like Peavey products and the Peavey logo, which is why you started and then resurrected this thread. Fine with me. Then when you got some disagreement here, you dismissed the contrarians as feeling "threatened" and concerned with image and "stature". Not so fine.

Consider the possibility that some of us really do think the logo is ugly, and we remove it because we like our gear to look good, not because we're ashamed to own Peavey. I like Peavey (see previous post), I just don't like Hartley's high school artwork. I do appreciate it's historical value.

As BbbyBld says, the delta squiggle logo was developed for Eddie Van Halen (maybe he also thought the lighting bolt logo was ugly), but it grew way beyond EVH gear. For a while, it was used across the entire product line. I was pleased. From talking to Peavey guys in the 90s, my impression was, there was mainly one guy keeping the old logo alive in that period. Guess who?

At the moment, the like/don't like split from your poll stands at 63%/37%. You win. But if I were a brand manager, these kind of numbers would not make me happy. I think Peavey's marketing guys have seen similar or worse before, but there's nothing they can do about it.


BbbyBld - thanks for your informative comments.
Click to expand...

Wow. You showed me. AFAIK neither the delta logo nor the block logo were designed for EVH - he may have preferred it, but both the block logo and the delta squiggle were designed for Peavey AMR and Architectural Acoustics and later found their way onto the consumer line after some debate. Bobby probably knows something about this, I'm just going by the Peavey book...

If you go here, you can read the page right from the book like I did, this page talks about both the block logo and the delta logo:

http://books.google.com/books?id=2nKLKDKa3K0C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false


Okay back to the discussion, I just feel that people basically hide it because they feel that Peavey somehow stands for cheaper (which they are) and inferior (which very well may be especially when compared to high end stuff.) I feel that people hide it and don't like it because of that more than the design. I think that if some of the high end guys put a big chuck of dog stuff on there with their name in flies, they would never even mention it...
 

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