Episode 6: The Gray Market

05/17/23 • 31 min

Gibson is a favorite guitar brand for the stars. But in 2009, federal agents stormed one of its warehouses, looking for illegal goods. And what ensued was a years-long debate of government overreach versus environmental exploitation.

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Bad Seeds - Episode 6: The Gray Market

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School of Humans. The Gibson Guitar Plant in Nashville is not much to look at. It's a one story brick building seven miles east of downtown, wedged between a bend in the road and a few parking lots. But this

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is where music history is literally made. Bb King, Joan Jet, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards's sister, Rosetta Tharpe, Eddie van Halen, and Muddy Waters, even Cheryl Crowe. Gibson is the guit