A Gretsch Abroad – Behind the Brand With Director of Operations Paul Cooper
It’s a warm summer day in 1947 at the Gretsch Building #4 in Brooklyn. The young up-and-coming drummer Louie Bellson starts placing wild demands on Gretsch drum production manager Bill Hagner. You see Louie has this crazy idea to play a drumset with two bass drums,...
Maren Alford: Touring the U.K. – An “Almost Christmas” Story
Enjoy another guest blog submission from Maren Alford, young drummer of the all-girl band from Texas, Not Ur Girlfrenz. Maren, Liv, and Gigi are an inspiration to other young musicians hoping to make their musical dreams come true! 2018 was starting to wind down, and...
A Gretsch Abroad–Behind the Brand: An Interview With Gretsch Drums Brand and Artist Relations Manager Andrew Shreve
It’s almost midnight on January 3, 1959 in the over-crowded and smoke-filled Birdland Jazz Club in Manhattan. The Miles Davis quartet is running through their set with Coltrane on the tenor sax and the great Jimmy Cobb on drums. Sitting at his usual table close to the...
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