Posted on 02/01/2012 11:51:06 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Waukesha - Ten 10-foot tall guitars, modeled after the Les Paul Gibson, arrived on a flatbed trailer - guarded by a mammoth fiberglass bulldog - Tuesday morning, a sure sign that the GuitarTown Project is for real.
The Gibson Foundation and Mayor Jeff Scrima announced earlier this month that Waukesha had been selected for the project, following on the heels of cities such as Los Angeles, Nashville and London.
In other GuitarTown Project cities, the guitars typically were decorated by artists, often signed by celebrities and auctioned off to raise money for charity.
Later Tuesday, a Waukesha steering committee planned to select artists to turn the plain pieces into works of art that will be mounted in prominent spaces downtown, said Lynn Gaffey, artist and gallery owner who serves on the committee.
The guitars were made and delivered by a driver for F.A.S.T. Corp. of Sparta. George Clemmerson, an employee who delivered the hollow sculptures, which are free standing but came with metal stands, said they weigh about 50 pounds each. The bulldog that accompanied them was headed to a Beloit restaurant, he said.
F.A.S.T. manufactures fiberglass statues and water park attractions for use around the world, according to its website. Clemmerson said the company has built other guitar sculptures for Gibson.
Another 15 regulation-size, playable Les Paul Gibsons have been shipped to Waukesha and will also be decorated, then completed with the strings and hardware added.
Initially the Gibson Guitar Corp. had said it would donate 10 of the smaller guitars but has since increased the number to 15, said Norm Bruce, a downtown businessman and project steering committee member. Some of those will be auctioned off while others may be on permanent display, he said.
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A collection of 10-foot-tall fiberglass sculptures of Les Paul Gibson guitars is unloaded by artist Jeff Seymour (left) and George Clemmerson of F.A.S.T. Corp., which produced the guitars. Local artists will be chosen to paint the sculptures, which will be placed in prominent locations in Waukesha.
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I hope they don’t get raided by Barry’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife commandos for not hiring somebody from Indonesia or India or wherever paint the guitars.
/johnny
The rig the Feds bring during the next intimidation raid to haul those things away is gonna look like something out of a Transformers movie.
Dammit man only a pervert would do it to the back of a guitar!
It’s a shame that Les Paul wasn’t around to see this. I think he might have gotten a kick out of it...
He was still playing gigs, right up to the end.
Mark
Let me guess. Holder and the boys will raid this display because they used illegal fiberglass.
Bugs Bunny fan...
Make Loooooveeeee....To a guitarrrrr.....”
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A collection of 10-foot-tall fiberglass sculptures of Les Paul Gibson guitars is unloaded by artist Jeff Seymour (left) and George Clemmerson of F.A.S.T. Corp., which produced the guitars. Local artists will be chosen to paint the sculptures, which will be placed in prominent locations in Waukesha.
The govt will not stand for this! They obviously need to bust in, kill everybody, burn the place down (especially if they’re kids inside), and shoot every dog within a 2 mile radius. Then promote everybody a couple of ranks with bonuses.
Where is the picture of the mammoth fiberglass bulldog?
Guess the photographer didn’t get there before the truck left to deliver the bulldog elsewhere.
How’s the sustain? Nigel Tufnel will want to to add one to his collection.
Or, insist that Waukesha import non-citizens to do the finish work...
Another Gibson, 10ft price...
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Current bid: US $100,000.00
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Guitartown did Nashville in 2006. I’m sure he saw that one.
Or, more likely, some blogger who knows nothing about guitars or the facts will post something. It will be picked up by countless other bloggers, and then people will create bogus facts out of thin air (e.g., "Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz is a conservative/Republican who donates to Republican candidates.")
As someone who has consulted with representatives of NAMM and manufacturers on the proposed Lacey Amendments, I'm still stunned at how little people really know about the "Gibson raids" (other than Gibson's press releases and some blather from uninformed bloggers). I say "Gibson raids" because Theodor Nagel Gmbh was as much a target as Gibson and will be when and if the indictments come down.
Gibson had a man on the ground in Madagascar for two-and-a-half weeks. Gibson's own internal emails and reports indicated it was doing something illegal. They got caught. But people aren't concerned about the facts because Obama and Holder are such easy targets.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2835308/posts?page=37#37
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2835308/posts?page=50#50
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