Straight Talk About The Business Of Being Funny
The Original Hippies, Homer & Jethro, appeared in the 1971 issue of
Gibson Gazette, Volume 11, No. 1, a small marketing publication when Gibson's headquarters were located at 7373 N. Cicero Ave., Lincolnwood, Illinois. Gibson was owned by Chicago Music Instruments (CMI) up until about 1969 when Ecuadorian Company Limited (ECL), a Panama-based holding company, acquired a majority of CMI shares, and the two companies merged in July of that year.
The magazine came to us courtesy of Charles Johnson of
World Mandolin Headquarters. As we do from time to time, when a significant or historic print article is destined to be lost in time we take the opportunity to record it in digital format for posterity.
Gibson Gazette first appears in the mid to late 1950s. From the numbering sequence of issues it appears it was likely not published every year. Volume 11 led with this Homer & Jethro feature as the main story of 8 total pages, mostly filled with guitar information. However,
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