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December 15, 2007
VOLUME 24 NO.12

THE MAGAZINE FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AND SOUND PRODUCT MERCHANDISERS

 

   
 

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FEATURE
We Cover it All!
For the second time, we honor instruments that get zero or little press...

A ‘Super’ Party on Kent Island
Experience PRS loaded up on celebrities, new products and much more. Get the full scoop...

‘Father of RMM’ Passes
Karl Bruhn, a tireless music industry devotee, mentored many and made awareness of health and wellness together a lifelong initiative.
Don’t ‘Skip’ this Story!
Skip’s Music Celebrates 30th Anniversary of its Special Event
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of your store being in business is an impressive feat. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of an idea you had at your store is utterly...
I Just Wanna Bang
on the Drums All Day
How is the Percussion Industry Doing? 2010 has been a tale of three seasons for many retailers to whom we’ve spoken. Sales for many in the first three months of the calendar year...
Your One-Stop Shop For The Holidays!
Heathcare Provision Could
Be a Nightmare

America the Beautiful

Not Doubting Thomas
Mendello Retires, Thomas Named Fender CEO

Music City Mystery


-The Latest, Industry, Dealers, People and Product Buzz and Showcases.

COLUMNS
-The Music & Sound Independent Retailer: We bring back our popular Independent Retailer Round-table. Providing four pages worth of answers are Gordy Wilcher & Lisa Kirkwood.
-Five Minutes With: We lend our ears to Marty Garcia, Founder and CEO of Future Sonics.
-MI Spy: Spy makes a visit to New York City to check out stores in both downtown and midtown. Service has to be good to win over discerning New Yorkers, right? We’ll find out.
-Dan the Man: Dan Ferrisi, with the help of occasional strategically placed SAT vocabulary words, discusses the prospect that the industry may have lost luster since a promising and upbeat January NAMM show.
-Birth of a Product Two former PRS veterans combined forces to found Knaggs Guitars. The story behind the Maryland- based company, which debuted a line of products at Musikmesse.
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Sales Guru: Sales persistence pays off. Just ask Gene Fresco
-Veddatorial: Dan Vedda provides a can’t-be-missed Summer NAMM synopsis.



FORMIDABLE FEMALES

-Catherine Polk: I’ve always had a great love for music. I come from a musical family of four girls. We mostly had a vocal background, but most of us played the piano. Also, my grandfather would...
-Cyndi Fritz: She never had a dream of becoming the next Janis Joplin. Although she has eclectic musical interests, a career in music was not necessarily on her radar. Cyndi Fritz was....
Janet Deering: When Janet Deering took an aptitude test at the conclusion of her high school career, she was told agriculture or sales were....
-Kathy How: Now here’s a story you don’t hear connected to MI every day. A woman who grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, studied medicine and later moved to England.
-Sarah Heil:We’ve all heard the stories about people beginning in the mailroom and later becoming the CEO of a major corporation. Those people are rare, but it does happen.
-Sue Avant is a trailblazer. She’s also someone who
has varied interests. And she is, indeed, formidable.


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CURTAIN CALL
John Flansburgh
[December 2007 - Page 1]

There aren't many bands that can survive a quarter-century in music without numerous changes in personnel, internal conflicts, tabloid-making headlines, or lawsuits. At the ripe old age of 25, They Might Be Giants has maintained their sanity and avoided blow-ups and meltdowns since their cassette tape beginnings in 1982.

John Flansburgh and John Linnell are still purveying their uniquely quirky yet influential sound together. The songwriting duo has toured the world dozens of times, won awards, and penned songs for projects ranging from television's Malcolm in the Middle and the animated Tiny Toon Adventures to XBox games and more. Flansburgh-known as the more extroverted Giants member-recently talked with the Music & Sound Retailer about life as a working musician and his favorite music gear and stores.

The Music & Sound Retailer: Tell us about your first exposure to music as a child.
Flansburgh: My first exposure came in a kind of roundabout way...I remember my dad came home from work, and he brought in a dictating machine. It was the first recorder I'd ever seen. I was fascinated by it, and it became an obsession of mine that I've spent the rest of my life dealing with. He pulled the machine out after dinner that night and showed it to me and my brother, and I went bananas with the thing. I later got a very cheap three-inch reel-to-reel recorder. I grew very passionate about recorded sound, and ultimately with making my own music. It really captured my imagination.

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