Thanks for posting this,what a find! I can't imagine traveling overseas with any vintage wood guitar myself.
Gibson bought Dobro and then forced dealers to keep about a half million dollars in Gibson products in stock to be a Gibson rep. This bullying on their part makes it very difficult to find any small dealers with Dobros. Although it is a completely different topic, it comes under the umbrella of at politics. Monkeys being monkeys! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories > and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, > electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a > statement yesterday Gibson's chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, > defended his company's manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice > Department of bullying the company. "The wood the government seized > Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier," he > said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly > broad laws to make the company cry uncle. > > Article here: > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html > > Interesting situation to put many musicians in. >
