I interviewed JC on video - that will follow later. He came up to me swearing in Dutch, cos he lived in The Netherlands for a while.
At the end of my interview I asked him: It's 2020. Time to reissue the 20/20? Bass (*)? Of course he didn't know about the 20/20, so I showed a pic and he said: 'of course: we should do this! In Orange, the Dutch colour.'
Afterwards I showed him the pic again and he got a guy from R&D and said: 'Look, we should make some of these.'.
Like Rob said: I don't take such comments with a grain/pinch of salt but with a truckload of it. People say a lot, especially on such trade shows, without doing some research or whatever.
That evening I was at the House Of Blues with Jen of Souldier Straps for the She Rocks Awards. Amazing! I saw Suzi Quatro play, after getting an award by Cherie Currie of the Runaways. Tal Wilkenfeld played. Amazing to see Linda Perry play and talk. And she played some songs acoustic, like Beautiful by Christina Aquilera. which she wrote. Lizzy Hale of Halestorm played with the houseband with Divinity Roxx on bass and besides the award she got an extra speech by JC who handed her a special Explorer. In the gig she used two Explorers too, as always.
I went to the bathroom, and while washing my hands someone punched my back quite hard. I'm not really into meeting other men at toilets, but it was JC. He said: 'I showed the bass to some guys and we should do that.' Next day I told him I know Rob of The Gibson Bass Book and that he owns a 20/20, for measurements... The last meeting was like in three seconds, cos he was busy.
So still I don't really believe it, but it was nice to talk to him, haha! I guess he's forgotten it already....
(*) please don't hate me, I said it's a bodyless, headless kinda bass, knowing it's of course not headless. Stupid remark of me.
And the drunk-ish House of Blues pic: