Post for Week 5

This week at KOMU was a very cool reporting shift. I was paired with JoBeth again, since she is one of the only Friday reporters, and we went to the Roots 'N Blues 'N BBQ festival to do a story about a Gibson trailer with tons of vintage guitars they were letting people play. The guitars were unbelievable, they were all vintage and ranged in value from $4,000 to $15,ooo. They had original Les Pauls and SGs and pretty much every great Gibson guitar. I play guitar, so this was really cool for me, and we had a lot of downtime waiting for our contact so I got to play some of the guitars while we waited. I really wanted to steal one but that would probably be wrong. They wouldn't even let anyone play the $15,000 which was in a big glass case. I'm not sure what made it $15,000 but it was very nice to look at. It must have been an original or one of 15 ever made or owned by Eric Clapton or something. Anyway, we listened to some blues and played some guitars and I had one of the best pulled pork sandwiches I've ever had, so all in all it was a good shift. I also thought I took some pretty good pictures and the people at the station really liked them, so that was nice. I think my slide show got messed up, but the first few photos in there and the ones next to the story are mine. Great last KOMU shift, though.

Gibson Guitars story