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Title: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Dave W on December 27, 2021, 12:13:53 AM
Just posted 12/19. This is over 1.5 hours long and I've just started watching it, so no idea what if any bass content there might be.

https://youtu.be/1zXJtkDstH0
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Ken on December 27, 2021, 01:11:19 PM
I've watched some of it.  Definitely some Thunderbird and Firebird content.  They have sections marked in the description.

Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Grog on December 27, 2021, 04:07:35 PM
I just watched the entire video. Jim DeCola was talking about the Les Paul Recording Reissue that he helped design, (it was hanging in the hall at the beginning of the video). He said that he thought only 100 were made. I was under the impression that 400 were produced at the time I bough mine…… I might have seen a SG Bass neck. The Thunderbird was the only real mention of a bass. Jim DeCola designed the pickups that were used in the EB 4&5 string basses. A lot of good background on him in the video. It was worth watching but long.
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Ken on December 27, 2021, 04:14:05 PM
Long, yeah, but really enjoyable.  I loved near the end when he called the pearloid pickguard "mother of toilet seat."
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Dave W on December 27, 2021, 07:23:20 PM
I've watched some of it.  Definitely some Thunderbird and Firebird content.  They have sections marked in the description.

I didn't notice the section markings until after I posted.
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: clankenstein on December 28, 2021, 04:25:56 AM
Thanks for that . Very Interesting.
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Basvarken on December 28, 2021, 05:59:10 AM
Cool video.
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Dave W on December 31, 2021, 09:47:06 PM
More Gibson news, although nothing on bass: Interview: Gibson's Cesar Gueikian on the past, present and future of the guitar giant (https://www.musicradar.com/news/gibson-guitars-interview-cesar-gueikian)

Toward the end, he says that (Mesa-Boogie's) Randall Smith is working on a line of Gibson brand amps to be manufactured in Petaluma.
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Rob on January 01, 2022, 04:14:09 PM
That was a solid interview.
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 03, 2022, 10:17:07 AM
LOL at the great light switch cover idea.  I don't disagree but he was hella excited about it.
Title: Re: A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola
Post by: amptech on January 04, 2022, 09:54:42 PM
It stretched out my lunch break the other day, but well worth seeing👍