LEFT HANDED KSD BASSES NOW SHIPPING

We are happy to announce that all Ken Smith Designed Basses are now available in Lefty. The MSRP Price is US $995 for a 4 String and US $1095 for a 5 string.

It is coming from the same Korean factory as the other KSD's so expect that great value and quality you come to expect from a Ken Smith Designed Bass.

Tell your dealer you want one.

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Victor Bailey getting ready to go back to Europe

Our good friend Victor Bailey is getting ready for his summer tour of Europe. Victor has been a long time endorsee of EBS and all of its products.

Victor is also a local neighbor of ours. We are glad Victor is close to us and all the other artists and musicians in our neighberhood.

You can check out Victor's new and growing myspace account at www.myspace.com/victorbailey

The above picture of Victor was taken recently at one of his NY gigs.

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Tony Hall on tour with Phish's Trey Anastasio

Tony Hall of New Orleans is out on the road touring with Phish's Trey Anastasio. They will be opening up for Tom Petty and other great acts this summer. Check out Trey's website at www.treyanastasio.com

Tony has been using EBS pedals along with his good friend and mentor George Porter of the Meters fame for some time. You can also see Tony using his Brooklyn Gear Strap.

Above is a picture of Tony with some of his pedals when he visited our Brooklyn Gear sound room some time ago.

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Juan Carlos Mendoza getting ready for Summer Tour

Juan Carlos Mendoza one of Spain's most respected bass player is getting ready for his upcoming summer gigs in Austria and Italy.

Check out Juan Carlos and his KSDv70j5 while on tour. To get the latest updates of his tour schedule go to www.juancarlosmendoza.com

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Brooklyn Gear's best Frankfurt Musik Messe ever

Brooklyn Gear has been so busy after the Frankfurt Musik Messe that this is the first time we have had a chance to write about it.

The show was a great show and had over 100,000 attendees this year. We saw a lot of good friends and met some new ones at the show.

The response was terrific to our Perfect Series products including the The Perfect Capo, Strings and Straps.

Above are some pictures from the show.
Pic 1: Group shot with Wils of Benelux, Joaquin of Doctor Bass of Spain and the staff of Sleek Elite of Japan
Pic 2: Adam with Fabio and Walter of Carisch of Italy
Pic 3: Adam with Alex of Music Office of Greece

Victor Broden now MD for Jake Own

Victor Broden is now the Music Director for hot new country music star Jake Owen. Jake Owen is currently opening for another hot country music star Kenny Chesney.

Check out Jake's latest video here www.cmt.com/artists/az/jake_owen/videos.jtml

Victor of course has his full EBS rig with him and KSD bass.

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Ready Freddie Washington going on tour with Steely Dan

Update Summer 2006
Steely Dan & Michael McDonald in concert at
Garden State Arts Center Summer 2006.
"Ready" Freddy Washington on the right.
His tone was incredible that night...as always!


Ready Freddie Washington is about to start rehearsing with Steely Dan www.steelydan.com for their upcoming tour.

Freddie will be taking at least one of his two KSD basses on this tour.

Hopefully we have a chance to visit Freddie during his time rehearsing in NY in June.

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Jim Mayer takes his EBS Pedals on tour with Jimmy Buffett

Jim Mayer a long time EBS pedal endorsee is getting ready to get back on the road with Jimmy Buffett. Jim has spent a long time in Margaritaville and is happy to live in that happy world.

Check out Jimmy Buffett at www.margaritaville.com

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Marcus Miller Clinic in Toronto at Revolution Music

Marucs Miller www.marcusmiller.com will be running a clinic in Toronto on June 25th at 1pm at Revolution Music in the Toronto Area.

Revolution Music is the top EBS & KSD Dealer in Canada. The staff at Revolution Music always puts the musician first.

Come check it out and check out Revolution Music at www.revolutionmusic.ca

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Rob Cureton of Stacy Mitchart visists Brooklyn Gear

Rob had the opportunity to come by and visit us at Brooklyn Gear. Rob enjoyed checking out our gear and will be adding it to his arsenal.

When Rob was in NY his band www.stacymitchart.com (which is one of our favorite bands out of Nashville) had the great honor of opening for esteemed B.B. King at the NY B.B. Kings

Ethan Farmer rehearsing with Christina Aguiliera

Ethan Farmer of www.movementorchestra.com backed up Babyface www.babyfacemusic.com on his last tour that came thru New York. Adam from Brooklyn Gear had the opportunity to check out the concert at the World Famous Apollo Theater.

Ethan is currently in rehearsal with Christina Aguiliera www.christinaaguilera.com on her next international tour this summer.

Above picture has Ethan and Adam from Brooklyn Gear at Ethan's gig with Babyface at the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem.

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Gavin Rossdale of Bush & Institute using Pickboy

When Gavin Rossdale of Bush is not in a movie, walking the red carpet with beau Gwen Stefani you may see him with his new band Institute who opened for U2 latest on their latest US tour.

If you look closely enough you can see his Pickboy Ceramic050 pick in his hand. That man loves his Pickboy picks. We ship it to him around the world.

We see Gavin above performing at the Bowery Ballroom in NY www.boweryballroom.com. We were lucky enough to check him and Institute out that night.

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Kern Brantly finishes up Destiny Childs Tour

Kern who has toured extensively with all the great artists just finished as Music Director and Bass Player for the last Destiny Child tour.

Kern used his Ken Smith Designed KSDv70j5 and EBS TD650 & 410 cabinets on this tour.

Above you can see a picture of Kern backstage before sound check at Destiny Child date at Madison Square Garden.

INFLAME & EVERGREY on tour in the USA

EBS & Brooklyn Gear is supporting the hard rocking European Bands INFLAME & EVERGREY on their USA tour.

Both Michael Hakansson of Everygrey www.evergrey.com and Peter Iwes of INFLAME www.inflames.com will be using a EBS TD650 & 2 410 cabinets on their USA tour for May & June.

Check them out
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MEGADETH James Lorenzo at Frankfurt

James Lorenzo came by the EBS booth at the Frankfurt Musik Messe and hung out with Bo Endenburg of EBS and Adam from Brooklyn Gear.

James has been a avid user of EBS pedals for years and now officially on board with EBS.

James is enjoying his time in the studio right now working on the new Megadeth album in a secret studio in the UK. When James is not playing with Megadeth you can check him out with the Black Label Society.

Ron Johnson from www.karldenson.com and other great bands came by our offices to pick up a new EBS Pedal. Sorry for the blurry picture but Ron was just playing too fast:)

Ron has been a EBS user for many years and since he recently moved to Brooklyn he is a frequent visitor to our offices. We think its because we are nice people but Ron just likes coming in and seeing what is the latest and greatest we are working on.

Ron is playing a EBS Octabass thru a KSDv60j5 thru a EBSTD650 and the new Brooklyn Gear 2x15 cab.