Gibson Guitar plant in Nashville, Memphis raided today

[marmelaki]

Ωπα, τι εχουμε εδω?

 

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110824/NEWS21/110824021/Federal-agents-shut-down-Gibson-Guitar-Memphis-Nashville-plant-targeted-?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

 

 

Federal agents are in the process of raiding the offices of the Nashville-based Gibson Guitar Corporation.

 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began executing search warrant this morning on guitar factories and corporate headquarters in Nashville and Memphis, according to Nicholas Chavez, special agent in charge with the Fish and Wildlife.

 

Chavez said the raid included both the corporate headquarters on Park Plus Boulevard and a factory on Elm Hill Pike.

 

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported tourists arriving to a Gibson Guitar factory in downtown Memphis this morning to find the doors locked and agents inside.

 

No arrests have been made, he said.

 

Chavez said the raid stems from a Texas case, but declined to offer more details.

 

“We can’t get into specifics right now,” Chavez said. “This is an ongoing investigation.”

 

Gibson officials couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

 

Gibson was also raided in 2009 for possible violations of the Lacey Act, which bans the importation of endangered plants and wildlife. Federal officials seized ebony and other woods they said were prohibited under the act. Gibson has said in the past it was "fully cooperating" with the investigation.

[The Genius Loci]

No arrests have been made, he said.

 

Μισές δουλειές ρε πστ μου...  :P

[Alter]

Κάποιος στο FBI θα ναι φαν και θα χει αγανακτήσει κι αυτός με τον CEO  ;D

[marmelaki]

Παντως, ετσι και γινει κανενα αστειο και κλεισει η Gibson οι τιμες των παλιων (ιδιως) θα ανεβουν στα υψη.

Σωστα?

Οσοι εχετε κρατηστε τες, οσοι δεν εχετε, παρτε τωρα  :P

(εγω πειραζει που δεν θα παρω?)

[John Goumis]

Παντως, ετσι και γινει κανενα αστειο και κλεισει η Gibson οι τιμες των παλιων (ιδιως) θα ανεβουν στα υψη.

Σωστα?

Οσοι εχετε κρατηστε τες, οσοι δεν εχετε, παρτε τωρα  :P

 

Kάθε μήνα ακούω την συγκεκριμένη ιστορία (εδώ και 3-4 χρόνια...''κλείνει'' η Gibson  ;D ) ή ότι εξαντλήθηκαν τα αποθέματα ξυλείας για οργανοποιία και ότι οι επόμενες gibson και οι κιθάρες γενικότερα θα είναι από κόντρα πλακέ ή από αλλουμίνιο και δεν ξέρω και εγώ τί...

 

Προσωπικά δεν δίνω σημασία σε τέτοιες ειδήσεις...

[Jasemeister]

Ένας εύσχημος τρόπος για να έχουν την πρώτη και καλύτερη διαλογή από V.O.S. κατευθείαν απ΄τη γραμμή παραγωγής :P ;D

[spirosg]

Να πάς να δείς τί είναι αυτός ο θόρυβος και να βρείς τον κλέφτη να δοκιμάζει κιθάρες?

[bloody_sunday]

...και η Gibson απαντάει: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/Daily/News/Gibson_Responds_to_Raid_by_Feds.aspx

[RayDTutto]

Gibson Guitars raid "madness" 24th August 2011

 

[bloody_sunday]

Το θέμα αρχίζει να αποκτά μεγάλες διαστάσεις και συζητιέται πολύ...

 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904787404576530520471223268.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

 

...αλλά σιγά-σιγά νομίζω πως θα τρελαθούμε τελείως:

 

If you are the lucky owner of a 1920s Martin guitar, it may well be made, in part, of Brazilian rosewood. Cross an international border with an instrument made of that now-restricted wood, and you better have correct and complete documentation proving the age of the instrument. Otherwise, you could lose it to a zealous customs agent—not to mention face fines and prosecution.

 

John Thomas, a law professor at Quinnipiac University and a blues and ragtime guitarist, says "there's a lot of anxiety, and it's well justified." Once upon a time, he would have taken one of his vintage guitars on his travels. Now, "I don't go out of the country with a wooden guitar."

 

It's not enough to know that the body of your old guitar is made of spruce and maple: What's the bridge made of? If it's ebony, do you have the paperwork to show when and where that wood was harvested and when and where it was made into a bridge? Is the nut holding the strings at the guitar's headstock bone, or could it be ivory? "Even if you have no knowledge—despite Herculean efforts to obtain it—that some piece of your guitar, no matter how small, was obtained illegally, you lose your guitar forever," Prof. Thomas has written. "Oh, and you'll be fined $250 for that false (or missing) information in your Lacey Act Import Declaration."