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Thanks a lot Dough.
It is really very complicated for me. What I understand is that you need a fortune to study in YALE, HARVARD?
If you don't have the money and you have to go to a MINOR University to become a lawyer, your friends at these "ELITE"universities also lawyers will find a job real easy, with those references compared to that minor player.
Someone who plays very well a CELLO can get a scholarship? Is it ALL ABOUT money and fame, having the opportunity to study at Yale, and sportsmen like American Football players are accepted, so don't they take a place from someone else who can't study there?
Is this correct? THEY GET (SPORTSMEN, MUSICIANS) just to have publicity, and they don't get a diploma?

YES I am not kidding. I don't know what you have to do to "get no gibson each year". That was what they told during the tour, that EVERY WORKER devoted to their job and not too many absent receives a hollow body Gibson as extra bonus each year. I really don't know if they get a solid body because you can't visit the Nashville plant.
SH** I just found this: Finest Quality and here     Short Description:
Origin : beijing,China
Material : Guitar FANTASTIC! They sell the finest Gibson Custom and the material they use is GUITAR, this is the best description I ever saw.
http://www.dhgate.com/p_ff8080811acea9b … 4626a.html

I think that they make their custom guitars in NAZARETH (not so far from BETLEHEM)

I have a GIBSON SJ-200 MONTANA GOLD and this beauty is made in BOZEMAN Montana.
I think that
1) Acoustics are made in MONTANA
2) Solid Bodies in NASHVILLE, Tennessee
3) Semi-hollow and hollow bodies are made in MEMPHIS Tennessee

I found that that song was named originally GOOD MORNING TO ALL, by the Hill sisters.
In 1935 "Happy Birthday to You" was copyrighted as a work for hire by Preston Ware Orem for the Summy Company, the publisher of "Good Morning to All".
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I read that the copyrights in the USA are as long as the author lives and depending on jurisdiction an extra 50 to 70 years.
So "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" is still under copyright. If used in a movie, they charge you extremely high copyright fees = 10.000$ The Hill sisters never had copyright, and the lyrics were changed by 6-8 year old children on birthday parties.
There is an extremely dirty play going on.
the lyrics will come out of copyright at the end of 2008 and the music will come out of copyright at the end of 2016.

I did once the tour in the MEMPHIS plant.
We WERE NOT ALLOWED TAKING PICTURES, and cellphones 7-8 years ago didn't have a camera.
We say  made with machines.
NO and NO, partial yes machines to cut out a top, a back and sides. You still need a lot of people to make a Gibson.
The most difficult and also the most delicate part = the lacquer process. Almost all the electronics are placed in the guitar by women, and if I'm correct the winding is no problem if you have what you need, meters, and measuring.
All these GIBSONS were hollowbodies, especially the "famous"LUCILLE guitar, made for BB KING. At the end of the processing line are some inspectors, looking for 1 little bubble + sound check. 30% of these guitars don't pass that controle.
AMAZING TOUR. Gibson workers get EACH year a brandnew guitar as bonus for
- not being too much sick
- and working good.

Hi TOP, I would love so much to go to a concert, and since I can't stand right no longer, even with my cruches, I need my wheelchair who arrived 2 days ago.
But what was the play list? Did they sing songs from TOMMY, or SEE ME, FEEL ME?

BOOTLEGER WHERE ARE YOU?
He is "the man" who is very very good in all what a guitar should be.
Probably there are still other "chordians", able to make an identical copy of a guitar, but that guitar can sound different because of the woods they use
Mahogany from 1970 will probably sound different than mahogany from 2005. But let's talk about the guitarparts.
The wood, if you are equipped you can cut the top out of a piece of wood. What else do you need?
The neck, really good frets, the right distance, tuners on the headstock which leaves us with the pick-ups, and of course the winding. If you have the skill to analyze a fender single coil, you can make one. These guys have a kind of instrument to check the output.
I really am afraid that due to these Chinese guitars you can buy a Squier, you change the headstock or neck and you use a real Fender neck, or just the headstock, let's say, a beautiful blue squier stratocaster, you change the neck (a lot of neck, headstock WITH Fender Stratocaster USA on it) on ebay. You buy tuners, and once this is done you have a blue real stratocaster BUT STILL A SQUIER for 300$.
I found this "new scamming" somewhere on the net, but I don't know where, and if you sell it the question is HOW MANY PEOPLE will analyze there "great almighty Fender?"Not many buyers.
I HATE SCAM.
Sometimes you can't see the difference between fake and real. I've got a ROLEX from TURKEY, it was a heavy watch. Those scammers buy a real Rolex, they analyze it and in very low cost countries like China they make the inner side of that watch almost identical.
Chinese workers are very hard working people and  smart too. My brother in law's family have a factory in China with 5000 people working for them. They make silk plats, flowers and Christmas trees. They live in a village constructed for them, they all get a bike and every month they get kilograms of rice + an additional $ every day. They are happy, and they earn more than most of other Chinese workers.

Yes AGREE too. Admit there was a period in music history. It started early 70ties in the UK, to become a "subcultural phenomenon" around 1975.
In the USA we had the New York Dolls.
As told it faded away and was almost followed immediately by the PUNK scene, in my eyes also a kind of "image" was more important bands, see a lot of punk bands.
I was doc for years in the biggest dutch speaking theater in Belgium and I noticed a lot that actors when not performing or on stage were quit shy. This too can be a reason to dress up and use tons of make-up. About David Bowie "THE ARTISTIC CHAMELEON" who changed a  lot his looks, he is also a very gifted and talented musician and I remember me getting once as a present the album "Alladin Sane" a great album with great songs. I never heard before of him until that album.