#50DEALERS – ARKANSAS: Ben Jack’s Arkansas Music
Ben Jack’s Arkansas Music Fayetteville, Bentonville Bruce Grubb, Manager Business this year: Picked up. New lines or brands you’ve taken on with success this year? We reintroduced the Gibson line.…
#50DEALERS – ALABAMA: Bailey Brothers Music Academy
Bailey Brothers Music Academy Birmingham Clay Bailey, Owner Outlook for 2014? Profits are up; sales are down. Over the last four or five years, I’ve developed into more of the…
Tonewood Documentary ‘Musicwood’ Director Maxine Trump Talks Guitar
The new film ‘Musicwood,’ which focuses on the struggle for sustainable forestry in Alaska, is now available on iTunes.The documentary Musicwood is making the rounds at film festivals, where crowds…
Gibson Float at Macy’s Parade
Gibson Guitars was well represented at this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC with a float that featured a scale replica of a cherryburst Les Paul. There's some post-parade…
21st Annual Dealers’ Choice Awards
As the Dealers’ Choice Awards enter their third decade, we see amongst the 2013 winners some familiar faces, some newcomers, and the return of champions from years past. While 2012…
Les Paul Foundation Bestows Grant on Ramapo College
Ramapo College of New Jersey will build a state-of-the-art music studio that will educate the musical luminaries of the future in a hybrid facility that bridges the worlds of analog…
Scratch DJ Academy Uses Stanton Tables at Major Resorts and Cruise Lines
Stanton DJ Scratch AcademyStanton®, a Gibson Pro Audio brand and an industry leader in the design and manufacture of professional audio products for DJs, joined forces with Scratch DJ Academy,…
‘We Do the Internet Now?’
Back in the day (I feel like I should be lazily drawing from a corn-cob pipe while rocking slowly in a chair as I write this), it was standard operating…
AES Reports High Numbers at Convention
As AES celebrated its 65th Anniversary, a five-year-high number of 18,453 registrants was tallied at the 135th Audio Engineering Society Convention (Thursday, October 17, through Sunday, October 20, 2013, at…
Give Your Hot-Rodding Guitar Customers Help with Modifications
Never give up a chance to help your customers get the most out of their favorite hobby. Photo: Dennis Beentjes.When contributing to, and reading, this month’s cover story, I was…
The Music Zoo
Music Zoo’s Tommy Colletti with Eddie Van Halen at the 2013 Winter NAMM Show.WHAT: The Music Zoo | WHO:Tommy Colletti, Owner | WHERE: Roslyn, New York | WHEN: 1994 At home: New wife, new baby! [Erin and Ava,…
Gibson Set to Acquire Cakewalk
Adding to a growing – and at this point sizable – list of recent acquisitions of MI operations outside of the guitar realm, Gibson Brands is poised to take control of…