I'm really excited to announce the project that myself and a few others have been heavily involved in for the most part of 2008. We've been flying to southern California and Nevada shooting interviews for a Travis Bean documentary! During this time we were able to locate most of the employees that worked at the shop. Having a chance to interview them on video has been a great privledge and honor, and we're extremely excited to complete the project and get it out to the world.
In the meantime, we've created a separate site dedicated to the documentary itself. At this site we will keep you informed on production progress and eventually provide some trailers and sample footage. Please visit TravisBeanMovie.com!
At this point we're about half way through completion. We have completed Phase I which included employee interviews and company background. Phase II will focus on the musician perspective, and we'll be starting that shortly.
We were fortunate to interview quite a few employees including the great Travis Bean himself. Everyone has been extremely open with their stories and homes, and their pride and enthusiasm of being a part of this instrument shows very clearly. Everyone believed that they were building the best instrument at the time, and everyone put their hearts and souls into each instrument that left the shop.
Trying to keep up with the times and riding the social networking wave, I created a FaceBook 'page' for Travis Bean Guitars. If you have a FaceBook account, become a fan and join! You can view the FaceBook page here.
Regarding other site news, I'm in the middle of new updates/features for the site. I know I've been saying this for awhile but a few enhancements are almost ready to be integrated to the site, so keep you eyes open for that. Also, I'll be announcing a large project in the works as well.
It's been a while since I've posted anything, so thought it was about time. I still have some plans for future features for the Bean site, including a Video page, where we can post Bean sitings on YouTube, comment and rate them here. Another idea I've been toying with is a music review section or contribution section where bands and artists can showcase their Bean soaked riffs. If you have any ideas, please post them here, I'd love to hear what you guys might be interested in.
2007 has turned out to be a pretty exciting year for Beans. Prices have soared, debates about pricing, history and legends have cropped up in the forum. All in all, a very enjoyable year to be a Bean freak. I just wanted to say a special thanks to all of those that have contributed and most importantly to those that have helped people find Beans for the Bean-less folks out there.
I also wanted to say thanks to the people out there that have contributed to the "Beer Fund". I actually buy beer with it.. no foolin'! It is very much appreciated! The Bean site has been a passion of mine over the years, and I know some of you have been around since it launched those many years ago.
I've just been contacted by Guitar Center, and they're currently offering free shipping on orders ofr $49 or more. Might be a good time to stock up on some guitar/bass supplies. To take advantage of this, enter the following Coupon Code at check out -- GC49 . This will end on 11/27/2007, so jump on it.
Free shipping over $49 at GuitarCenter.com
So stay tuned for upcoming changes. Hopefully, I'll have some new areas to report in the next few weeks to a month!
Every few days I get links sent to me... usually for YouTube videos of Bean sightings. These are extremely cool, and I would like to start sharing them as I get them. It's great to see these guitars/basses in action either in the past or present. If you know of any cool Bean sitings on YouTube, please contact me, and I'll see if I can get a few of them up for the rest of us to see.
This video shows the unorthodox tapping technique of Stanley Jordan playing two guitars, one of which is a TB1000S. Buy the way, the bassist (playing upright bass) slays!!!
Let me know if you have any other clips!
Thanks!
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