Stop naming pickups after famous players

[Kindly Killer]

guitar product names make me ashamed of being a guitar player

How about a moratorium, guitar-wide, on:

• portmanteau of any kind - a pormantorium!
• puerile marketing mentality in general: bright, saturated primary colors, cutesy names... i'm waiting for a plush, bear-shaped amp, or the Mommy's Little Man Overdrive. even if the median age of guitar players were 8 or 10 or 12, you would think manufacturers would carry additional lines for adults

I guess it's a perfect reflection of the wider culture, but holy sh*t it's embarrassing. I literally tape or paint over some of the names of pedals I like.

[David Schwab]

So after hearing about the Hendrix chord and seeing Hendrix pickups a friend did suggest we market the Hendrix vomit.

Don't forget the Hendrix lighter fluid and matches.

[Jim Shine]

Aroma de Corque sounds real fancy.

[ken]

How about this pickup name for people who actually think some of these type ads are real?

The Suckerbucker

ken

[Possum]

This whole thread was rather pointless. You literally can't legally use any performer's name in selling your work unless you have a written contract. I sell a set of pickups based on the study of Jimmy Page's original PAF set, and was given some actual specs from someone in the know. I named the set the VL59JP. So, one day I get a FedX letter in the mail from the UK from Jimmy Page's lawyers telling me cease and desist and hand over all the billions of dollars I made selling the set. WTF???? I hadn't even sold any at that point and I pointed out to them that the set was not named Jimmy Page-anything. They told me I had mentioned his name in the video I did and on one forum, so I removed the "name" and they were happy. Now I very carefully only refer to the "Albert Hall" concert and customers can deduce the rest. The humorous part of this is that I don't really like Jimmy Page much at all and only did the set because his was an identifiable 1959 PAF set with recorded specs for the neck; the purpose in making it was to see what a high wind PAF set would be like and his was one of the hottest I've heard, way on the dark side of things. Most who buy it aren't Page-o-philes and just want a hotter set, and actually Page's tone is better known for the TTop bridge combined with the original PAF neck as the TTop really made the middle position much more chirpier than with the fat ass PAF bridge.... Anyway, I see nothing wrong in studying an artist's vintage pickups from certain periods, doing your HOMEWORK and getting them right and using an inferential name, like Red House, or Darkburst, blah blah. Just be sure if you do so you never mention the artist's name, as most of their names are trademarked with hungry lawyers waiting to cash in for wrongdoers.