Dear Gentlemen,
It thrills me to no end that you are having as much fun with the name of my company as my customers hare having listening to our products. In fact, when I sellected the name "Buggtussel" for my company, I did not remember it form the beverly hillbillys.
During my spring break of 1975, I participated in a youth-fellowship that worked at repairing a needy orphanage in West Virginia. My home state being Michigan, we had a bit of a bus ride to our destination. The morning of the second day "on the bus", when I awakened, I was informed that we had all received nick-names during the night. Mine was to be "Buggtussel". Two of my friends became "Bent Fork" and "Spiders Breath". I do not remember the nick-names of the remaining youth as they were not willing to go along with the "unity-building-game" and would not respond to their given nicknames.
In 1979, I started selling custom designed audio gear (mostly loudspeakers) under the wholly inspiring name of Blair Audio. I am sure everone remebers that name.
In 1985, I took my M.S. in Entomology (Insecticide Toxiclogy), initiated my Ph.D. studies in Neurosceince, and converted Blair Audio to Buggtussel. By this time, Blair Audio had many buisness facets, some of which were no longer limited to audio. Not only was I building and sevicing audio gear and operating a mobile (live on-location) recoding buisness but biomedical and research instrumentation for several departments was being produced. For example, one insturment was developed to measure the contraction force of a fly uterus and ova ducts to quantify the action(s) of insecticides and other neurochemicals on egg laying behaviours of pest insects. This instrument has a resolution of about 200 nm (nanometers) and has been adapted to study tweeter and midrange diaphram mechanics. Other instruments addressed things like pharmaco-psycology of feeding behavior. Blair Audio just did not cut it as a corporate logo when talking to multi-billion dollar research companies. I needed a corporate name that implied nothing specific of what I did to any of my potential customers. Thus "Buggtussel" was born.
I have learned of many other associations to our corporate name but, I have rambled enough. Enjoy.
Cheers,
Kevin L. Blair
