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Breakfast of Champions, Tom Bedell (NAMM Show 2010)
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Joe Lamond interviews Tom Bedell, a savvy business owner whose passion for music making has fueled the buzz around and success of his guitar company, Two Old...
Breakfast of Champions, Yoko Ono Lennon (NAMM Show 2010)
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Yoko Ono Lennon, musical artist and wife of the late John Lennon, talks about the efforts of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, which gives teens the chance...
Breakfast of Champions, Remo Belli (NAMM Show 2010)
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Remo Belli of Remo, Inc., shares stories about his early musical beginnings, the inception of his business and his company’s efforts to promote the potential...
Breakfast of Champions, Quincy Jones (NAMM Show 2010)
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Music industry legend Quincy Jones sits down with NAMM President and CEO Joe Lamond to discuss his career, his passion for music and to accept the NAMM Music...
Breakfast of Champions, Joe Lamond (NAMM Show 2010)
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NAMM President and CEO opens the fifth annual Breakfast of Champions session, a fascinating gathering of the industry’s best and brightest.
Breakfast of Champions, Chris Martin (NAMM Show 2010)
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Joe Lamond, NAMM CEO & President, interviews Chris Martin, the sixth-generation CEO of Martin Guitars, founded by his family in 1833.
Leland Sklar
- Oral History
Leland Sklar may be among the top recorded bass players in history.
Paul Shelden
- Oral History
Paul Shelden was a Professor Emeritus in Music for Brooklyn College and both studied and taught music at Juilliard, beginning on clarinet and sax
Ted Meyer
- Oral History
Ted Meyer teamed with his wife, Betty, to open a music store in the mid 1960s. It turned out to be a great idea!
Betty Meyer
- Oral History
Betty Meyer and her husband, Ted, decided that their teaching salaries were not enough to raise their family in the early 1960s so they decided t
Amy Mao
- Oral History
Amy Mao teamed with Dr. Paul Shelden in 2004 to create a new line of band instruments.
Jim Lo Duca
- Oral History
Jim Lo Duca’s father and uncle were the original Lo Duca Brothers, who formed a small music store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that
Stan Lindenbaum
- Oral History
Stan Lindenbaum grew up in Brooklyn and developed many thoughts and ideas about selling.
Lyndon Laney
- Oral History
Lyndon Laney built his first amplifier in his father’s garden shed with little thought of turning his craft into a business.
Alberto Kreimerman
- Oral History
Alberto Kreimerman opened Hermes Music Stores in the United States with branches in Mexico beginning in 1982.
Wendal Jones
- Oral History
Wendal Jones began playing double reed instruments as a child in grade school.
Yoshitada Hoshino
- Oral History
Yoshitada Hoshino is the president of Hoshino Gakki Company, a music company that has remained in his family since first opening in 1908 to sell
Michael Harris
- Oral History
Michael Harris began working in the music industry officially in 1967, however, since his father and uncle both worked in music retail in Chicago
Ralph Grierson
- Oral History
Ralph Grierson’s father was a sawmill operator who loved playing music after work and on the weekends.
James Goldberg
- Oral History
James Goldberg grew up in Washington DC and was a journalism major in college, which led to jobs as a writer for newspapers.
Mitch Gallagher
- Oral History
Mitch Gallagher grew up in a musical family.
John Eaton
- Oral History
John Eaton spent the latter part of the 1960s composing for electronic musical instruments such as early synthesizers developed by Robert Moog an
Michael Diehl
- Oral History
Michael Diehl opened a small store in Freehold, New Jersey after serving in the United States Navy during World War II.
Joseph Blumenthal
- Oral History
Joseph Blumenthal had his sights on being a schoolteacher during his college days when he began to focus on working in retail.
Mike Adams
- Oral History
Mike Adams has a background in mechanical engineering as well as manufacturing, which seemed to fit perfectly when he began working with Bob Moog back in 2
Lloyd Stark
- Oral History
Lloyd Stark began his career in the music industry as a teacher in a small string shop in Berkeley, California, providing lessons on bluegrass in
Rob Turner
- Oral History
Rob Turner’s first instrument was the drums; in fact it was the drums that brought him to establish one of the world’s best-known guitar pickup c
Michael Schmitt
- Oral History
Michael Schmitt is the president of Peter E. Schmitt Music in New Jersey, the wholesale business his great uncle formed back in 1926.
Alan Poster
- Oral History
Alan Poster grew up in the music products industry beginning in the 1960s during the folk and Beatles boom.
Aspen Pittman
- Oral History
Aspen Pittman grew up in the 1960s as a student of the folk music movement.