A new Gibson factory tour with Jim DeCola

[Dave W]

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.

[Ken]

I've watched some of it.  Definitely some Thunderbird and Firebird content.  They have sections marked in the description.

[Grog]

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.

[Ken]

Long, yeah, but really enjoyable.  I loved near the end when he called the pearloid pickguard "mother of toilet seat."

[Dave W]

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.

[clankenstein]

Thanks for that . Very Interesting.

[Basvarken]

Cool video.

[Dave W]

More Gibson news, although nothing on bass: Interview: Gibson's Cesar Gueikian on the past, present and future of the guitar giant

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.

[Rob]

That was a solid interview.

[Granny Gremlin]

LOL at the great light switch cover idea.  I don't disagree but he was hella excited about it.

[amptech]

It stretched out my lunch break the other day, but well worth seeing👍