Gibson USA & Gibson Custom

Our main reason for the trip to Nashville, TN was to visit the Gibson USA and Custom Factories. This was a great experience! It was a bit of a drool factor to see the hundreds of SG’s and Les Paul’s, V’s, and the new Reverse V’s, just to mention a few.

In this slide show there are 291 images from these 2 factories! Enjoy them!

We will be putting together individual videos for each factory, then after we cover the Gibson Bozeman and Memphis factories we will be looking at a definitive project to show the family of plants.

Zoro The Drummer – Nashville, TN

Our last night in Nashville turned into an inspirational and enjoyable evening with Zoro The Drummer. He opened up his house to us as we set up our new gear in his new room where he hopes to be able to put up all of this pictures and memorabilia that represent his wonderful career.

The taped interview was right at 2-hrs long without a break. We were fortunate as a video team that Bill actually grew up with Zoro right here in Southern Oregon, so there was a lot of catching up to do, and a lot of old memories revisited, even as far back as what inspired Zoro to start drumming in the first place, and that Bill was one of the first guys to ever play with Zoro when he was learning how to hit the skins.

This interview was a great experience, a great time, and will provide a ton of versatile video content!

Chester Thompson – Nashville, TN

August 13th, we visited Chester Thompson in his private studio. A very hospitable gentleman, and a joy to be around. Bill did a great job getting Chester to talk about his career with Phil Collins and Genesis, Weather Report, and Zappa, as a drummer. Chester shared many other great stories, and of course we talked about gear.

We look forward to getting the interview up on the Musician’s Friend and Harmony-Central website, but in the meantime, check out the pictures we took following the interview.
We are still in Nashville, visiting Gibson USA and the Custom Shop. Today we did a walk through. Shot a ton of video on one camera, and about 450 stills. I will post them – most of them, anyway. Thursday we visit Zoro the Drummer, which will also be a great treat!Promise, we’ll share.