Nice interview. You find out that the mystical Gibson factory was just your everyday sweatshop
https://guitar.com/features/gibson-kalamazoo/
Nice interview. You find out that the mystical Gibson factory was just your everyday sweatshop
https://guitar.com/features/gibson-kalamazoo/
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
JT has alot of incredible guitars. His collection is outstanding. And his knowledge is so vast.
No secrets about the special room filled with unicorns and fairy dust next to Lloyd Loar's workbench???
If Monroe had never bought that mandolin in the barber shop window would anyone care about the unicorns and fairy dust or Loar's workbench? There's a question.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
What a sweetheart! I bet she was full of “vim and vigor” as they used to say.
Yep, it was a factory. My wife used to work on the line at Upjohn (night shift) and said the same thing, days were comparatively awful, that was twenty years ago.
Now, since the place is Pfizer, it’s no where near as pleasant a work environment.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
He, he, he...
No. Nobody would care about the mandolin department.
And hadnīt Rhubarb Red come up with a nice electric guitar after having played a Super 400, nobody would discuss goldtops and nobursts and whatnots Les Pauls neither.
But what I know is that my Southerner Jumbo is a machine of magic. And thatīs a fact. So some Kalamazoo Girls must have given it some love when putting it together. Bless their hearts.
Olaf
Thanks, folks!
It was a privilege to conduct that interview (Guitar wisely kept me off camera). Irene turned 98 in January. What a treasure!
Here's another video that ran with the same story, this one of me talking about my went-to-WWII SJ:
Was there a second video? That video appears to be the same video in the article above.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Great, thanks.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
We've had threads about John's book in the past but for those that might not know about it take a look at here.
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"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
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