Summary: *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Warwick Booth Sessions Summer NAMM Nashville Jon Hammond Jon's archive http://archive.org/details/JonHammondWarwickBoothSessionsSummerNAMMNashvilleJonHammond This video is about Warwick Booth Sessions Summer NAMM Nashville Jon Hammond and Joe Berger "The Warwick Booth Sessions" WARWICK GMBH & CO. MUSIC EQUIPMENT KG Booth #1144 with Joe Berger (playing the Jerry Garcia Special model from EKO Guitars) and Jon Hammond (Sk1 combo Hammond Organ) at Nashville Summer NAMM Show smack dab in the middle of the NAMM Exhibits Floor - The Sound Police Love Us - because we rock out at low trade show sound levels and don't disturb the other nearby booths - that's the Community Spirit we always adhere to as old NAMM'ers don't ya' know - special thanks to Hans-Peter Wilfer, & Bob and the crew at Warwick & Framus - and John the Floor Manager in charge of Sound Control - JH — with Joe Berger at Nashville Music City Center - http://www.HammondCast.com/ Youtube http://youtu.be/pyPG240nlh8 Blip TV http://blip.tv/jon-hammond/warwick-booth-sessions-summer-namm-nashville-jon-hammond-6618608 Vimeo http://vimeo.com/70724725 Framus Vintage http://www.framus-vintage.de/ "Hans-Peter Wilfer followed in his fathe´s footsteps and founded Warwick in Eggolsheim in 1982 at the age of 24. After the German reunification he relocated the company"s headquarters to Markneukirchen in the Vogtland region in 1994. He then started an endeavor to bring new life to his father´s lifework - Fred Wilfer had bought back the apparently worthless trademark rights from the liquidator and gave them as a present to his son shortly before his death. An appreciation for Fred Wilfer´s merits was missing so far. The history and development after the Second World War was fascinating the historian Dr. Christian Hoyer who tried to find out more on the history of the resettlement of the Schoenbach violin-makers. Meanwhile the public interest in the Framus brand had risen and old Framus instruments, due to their high realizable value and their remarkable sound properties, were partly sold to considerable prices in the vintage market. Reason enough for Hans-Peter Wilfer to support Hoyer´s research. So, historian Dr. Christian Hoyer was engaged to conduct research in relation to the Framus subject. Wilfer and Hoyer had a meeting in 2001. As a consequence Warwick has endorsed Hoyer´s search for evidence about the past manufacturing in Bubenreuth, something that has taken him already all around the world. Definitely not an easy undertaking, because the company´s archives don´t exist anymore since the liquidation. This endeavor turned into a bigger challenge: ads were placed that stated the need for information and witnesses of that time. Warwick then allocated the necessary funds to buy up old and interesting instrument in order to gain an overview of the company´s manufacturing. But many people helped in the process of filling in the gaps: former co-workers, musicians and endorsers involved with the company, music-loving collectors and many others. This labored and intense phase also included looking in the archives of states, courts, associations and organizations. Even guitarist and former endorser Billy Lorento, who nowadays works as a consultant - under the name Bill Lawrence - for the Fender® Corporation and enjoys his high profile as "King Of Pickups", contributed his part to the story. When a collection of instruments and documents was finally achieved, it was too hard to deny this knowledge to the public: It was decided that a book be made about Fred Wilfer and the Framus company and that the aforementioned collection was to be displayed and open to the public in a museum dedicated to the history of the Framus factory. The history project of the Warwick company that Hans-Peter Wilfer started in order to revive the Framus brand now reaches the culmination of all the efforts with the opening of the Framus Museum and the publication of a book on the history of Framu
