NAMM 2012: Gibson Guitars Artist In Residence James A. Willis
Jan 23, 2012 gibson guitars
We met up with New York City artist James A. Willis at the 2012 NAMM Show and were blown away by his recent collaborations with Gibson. Here’s hoping for more artist collaborations on this level from Gibson in the future!
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Tags: Art, Gibson Guitar Corporation, Guitar, James, NAMM Show, Willis
DGN Custom Guitars – 1959 Gibson ES-355
Jan 15, 2012 gibson guitars
This is an all original 1959 Gibson ES-355 that came into the DGN Custom Guitars repair shop for major repair work. The original frets were worn to the point of unplayable, and at some point there was a poorly done partial Re-Fret to 3 frets that were much higher than the rest. I performed a full Re-Fret on this guitar as well as a new hand cut bone nut and a full setup. After some cleaning of the electronics this old guitar was ready to rock once again. These are some of the best PAF’s I have ever heard. They scream and have that bite that good PAF’s are known for. To learn more about me, my custom guitars, and my high end repair work, head over to www.dgncustomguitars.com for tons of info and pics.
Duration : 0:8:14
Tags: 1959 Gibson, Blues, Custom (musician), DGN Custom Guitars, electric, ES335, es355, Gibson Guitar Corporation, Guitar, JTM45, musician, Paragon
Newt on the Gibson Guitar Raids
Jan 7, 2012 gibson guitars
Newt discusses the outrageous raid of the Gibson Guitar company by the Obama administration’s justice department over the issue of “illegal Indian wood” being used.
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Tags: Gibson, Guitar, justice department, newt gingrich, Obama
Testimony From Henry Juszkiewicz, CEO of Gibson Guitars at PROPERTY WRONGS Hearing – 10/12/11
Dec 29, 2011 gibson guitars
gibson guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz testifies at PROPERTY WRONGS
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Tags: Congress, Gibson Guitars, Kentucky, Regulation, Senator Rand Paul
Gibson Guitars – original factory in Kalamazoo MI, Heritage Guitars
Dec 21, 2011 gibson guitars
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Gibson Guitars – 1914 Gibson L1 – The Gibson
Dec 13, 2011 gibson guitars
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Tags: and, Barringer, beyond, garageband, garagebandandbeyond, Gibson, GuitarJamz, Guitars, Lewin, marty, schwarts, Youcanlearnguitar
Gibson guitar shut down for exploiting Africa
Dec 6, 2011 gibson guitars
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. “The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier,” he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.
It isn’t the first time that agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service have come knocking at the storied maker of such iconic instruments as the Les Paul electric guitar, the J-160E acoustic-electric John Lennon played, and essential jazz-boxes such as Charlie Christian’s ES-150. In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory, and both sides have been wrangling over the goods in a case with the delightful name “United States of America v. Ebony Wood in Various Forms.”
The question in the first raid seemed to be whether Gibson had been buying illegally harvested hardwoods from protected forests, such as the Madagascar ebony that makes for such lovely fretboards. And if Gibson did knowingly import illegally harvested ebony from Madagascar, that wouldn’t be a negligible offense. Peter Lowry, ebony and rosewood expert at the Missouri Botanical Garden, calls the Madagascar wood trade the “equivalent of Africa’s blood diamonds.” But with the new raid, the government seems to be questioning whether some wood sourced from India met every regulatory jot and tittle.
It isn’t just Gibson that is sweating. Musicians who play vintage guitars and other instruments made of environmentally protected materials are worried the authorities may be coming for them next.
If you are the lucky owner of a 1920s Martin guitar, it may well be made, in part, of Brazilian rosewood. Cross an international border with an instrument made of that now-restricted wood, and you better have correct and complete documentation proving the age of the instrument. Otherwise, you could lose it to a zealous customs agent—not to mention face fines and prosecution.
John Thomas, a law professor at Quinnipiac University and a blues and ragtime guitarist, says “there’s a lot of anxiety, and it’s well justified.” Once upon a time, he would have taken one of his vintage guitars on his travels. Now, “I don’t go out of the country with a wooden guitar.”
The tangled intersection of international laws is enforced through a thicket of paperwork. Recent revisions to 1900′s Lacey Act require that anyone crossing the U.S. border declare every bit of flora or fauna being brought into the country. One is under “strict liability” to fill out the paperwork—and without any mistakes.
It’s not enough to know that the body of your old guitar is made of spruce and maple: What’s the bridge made of? If it’s ebony, do you have the paperwork to show when and where that wood was harvested and when and where it was made into a bridge? Is the nut holding the strings at the guitar’s headstock bone, or could it be ivory? “Even if you have no knowledge—despite Herculean efforts to obtain it—that some piece of your guitar, no matter how small, was obtained illegally, you lose your guitar forever,” Prof. Thomas has written. “Oh, and you’ll be fined $250 for that false (or missing) information in your Lacey Act Import Declaration.”
Still, musicians cling to the old materials. Last year, Dick Boak, director of artist relations for C.F. Martin & Co., complained to Mother Nature News about the difficulty of getting elite guitarists to switch to instruments made from sustainable materials. “Surprisingly, musicians, who represent some of the most savvy, ecologically minded people around, are resistant to anything about changing the tone of their guitars,” he said.
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Tags: blood diamonds, Brazil, DOJ, environmentalism, forest, Madagasgar, Obama, Raid, rain
BRUCE BHERMAN Talks guitars: GIBSON Barney Kessel ’63
Nov 28, 2011 gibson guitars
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Bruce thanks the Falato’s, George Gruhn, Rudy Pensa, Stanley Jay and many more, they’re an everlasting inspiration.
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© Bruce Bherman 2011
Duration : 0:3:26
Tags: amp, Blues, BOSS, cover, custom, electric, Fender, Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Guitar Corporation, Gibson Guitars, Guitar, Guitars, Jazzguitar, Music, pedal, Strat, Tal Farlow, vintage guitars
Public Reacts to Feds Raid on Gibson Guitars – Infowars Nightly News
Nov 20, 2011 gibson guitars
Infowars reporter Darrin McBreen goes to the street to get people’s response to american icon, gibson guitars being raided by the “Green Police Mafia.”
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Duration : 0:3:42
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Green Police Mafia Raid Gibson Guitars
Nov 12, 2011 gibson guitars
The modern environmental movement is nothing more than organized crime bent on harassing businesses while redirecting public sentiment towards petty issues rather than real enviro-catastrophes like genetic modification.
Duration : 0:9:54
Tags: 21, Agenda, alex, Environment, Gibson, green, Guitars, jones, police, Regulations