Source: ModernDrummer.com To celebrate its 125th anniversary, The Gretsch Company, one of the world’s most well-known drum and guitar manufacturers, is kicking off the Next Gretsch Greats Unsigned Artist Competition, an online competition to identify the world’s hottest unsigned bands. The competition entry period will begin May 1 and end May 31, 2008. Go to Gretsch's 125th Anniversary site, or Read the MD article here ...

Source: Harmony-Central.com Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Gretsch® drum-making excellence, Guitar Center, the world's largest musical instrument and professional audio retailer, is proud to team up with Gretsch Musical Instruments to announce the Gretsch Vintage USA Maple Limited Edition Snare Drum. The drums were hand selected from 300 original Vintage USA Jasper shells recently found in an amazing discovery at the Gretsch factory in Ridgeland, South Carolina, and a mere 125 have been produced and made ...

It's another How It's Made video! This time they explore drum shells from the Grover percussion factory. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvy7iS4K0Os]

Continuing on the cymbal video love, here are few videos covering Zildjian history and its factory. Most surprising fact: it's pronounced "AHH-veh-dis," not "ahh-VEE-dis." My brain hurts! Part 1 [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=L1d2NtzpNFM]   Part 2 [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_gIpJuvvWY] Part 3 [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eKwqdauLd8] Part 4 [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKsabSo8cLQ] Sorry about the quality on some of these ...

This is an EXCELLENT video of how Zildjian cymbal are made. From the UK program, How It's Made. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=zyynDsMhb7g]

This week we put our money where our mouths are and we roll tunes from projects of our own! Plus we review Gretsch's New Classic snare drum and swap vomit stories. FUN! Nick Mason is the Drummer of the Week. Show Notes