Far aside from the throngs of euphony fan and musicians roaming the show trading floor at NAMM on Saturday , I sit down in a relatively quiet room with role player Kiefer Sutherland . The subject of conversation today was not television or moving picture , but rather guitar and music .
It was a big week for Sutherland as Gibson bring out a special guitar in his honor . The guitar , modeled after Sutherland ’s pet vintage Gibson , a ‘ 67ES-335 , was one of three bring out at NAMM — other models included one for Peter Frampton and another for Jimi Hendrix .
“ I just love the guitar , ” tell Sutherland . “ Gibson took so much fourth dimension build it , making sure everything was just good . “ This is a guitar you’re able to afford to buy and it sounds so good . ”
It was evident very early on in the conversation why Gibson would choose Sutherland to honor with an “ Inspired by ” serial guitar : passion for medicine . Besides his favorite ‘ 67 ES-335 , 80 percent of Sutherland ’s guitar collection is made up of vintage Gibsons — that ’s 50 Gibson in all .
Sutherland had a spark in his eye when he was talking about the raw guitar , but his real passion for euphony showed when we talked about his music label , Ironworks Records .
organize with musician and producer Jude Cole , Sutherland said the recording label was in response to change materialize in the industry .
“ We saw that the music industry was changing and we feel that it needed to change , ” said Sutherland . “ We have require to do this for a very long time . ”
One of the independent reasons for building a studio and forming their own record label was to help up and coming bands , something Sutherland does n’t feel the major labels do enough of these day because they typify so many act .
“ We saw so many phenomenal Rock ‘ n Roll band that were not getting signed , ” say Sutherland . “ We really needed to bulge out looking outside the box . ”
Sutherland said Ironworks would represent one or two ( three at the very most ) bands a yr — that ’s it , no more . This he said would allow them to pore on all the thing they need to do to make that band successful .
“ There are three thing we need to do for a isthmus . We call for to make a great record ; we need to get the record played ; and we require to find an audience for the live shows , ” say Sutherland .
If that means pounding the pavement to get hoi polloi to see one of his act , then that ’s what they ’ll do . Listening to Sutherland ’s plan of onrush for the recording label you got the touch that it was very much a grassroots effort — you could also say from his purpose , that he was not going to fail and neither were the ring he represents .
