Brooklyn Gear

New Leather Straps from Brooklyn Gear & Morning Breath

2007-03-24T22:25:00.000-04:00

Check out our new Leather Straps from Brooklyn Gear. They are designed by the award winning twisted brains of Morning Breath. Please go check out their website and see the amazing campaigns and designs that they work on.

Also check out their new book. You can get it on Amazon.

Dude

P.S. How can you not love a bunch of guys who call their company "Morning Breath"

New Pic of the DRUM WALLET

2007-03-24T20:29:00.000-04:00

Here is a great shot of the new Brooklyn Gear "Drum Wallet". This drum dampener was created with Trevor Lawrence Jr. who is on tour and the Music Director for Snoop Dogg.

The Drum Wallet idea came during a dinner one night in NYC with the gang from Brooklyn Gear, Trevor Lawrence and the great bass player and KSD endorsee Byron Miller. Both artists were in town rehearsing at SIR with Jennifer Lopez for her upcoming tour. Trevor said he had a great idea for a drum dampener. So after some rough drawings on a few bar napkins.....the Drum Wallet was created.

Everyone who we have given one to try does not want to give it back! It is easy to attach and use. It comes with a drum key and two metal plates. You can use either one or both metal plate to adjust the amount of pressure on the drum head. Some artists are even putting their credit cards and driver license in the wallet instead of the metal plates.

What also excites us at Brooklyn Gear about the Drum Wallet project is how it came about. An artist had a idea and we then created it. If you have a great idea please contact us at artist@brooklyngear.com

Dude

New Picture of the Ken Smith Designed 6 string

2007-03-24T16:12:00.000-04:00

Here is a professional photo of the new KSD 6 string. Above is the KSDv60j6. We will also have the 6 string available in the Black Fretless and 70's Ash body.

You can also check it out at Musik Messe at our booth in Hall 4.0 B53

New Brooklyn Gear 8 String Guitar

2007-03-24T13:17:00.000-04:00

Hi

We are excited about the release of the new Brooklyn Gear 8 string electric guitar. We are using the same boutique factory that makes our Ken Smith Designed Basses .

This is the first of many Brooklyn Gear Guitars. Please note our distinctive headstock. One night after having dinner at Grimaldis (Awesome Pizza)with one of our artist endorsees we all decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. During the dinner we were discussing the new guitar line and design ideas for our new headstock. Then like a scene in a movie we were in the middle of the span we looked up at the bridge and there it was. It was like a eureka moment. So we got out some paper and started to sketch the headstock to have it look like the Brooklyn Bridge.

The 8 string electric guitar will come with Brooklyn Gear BG9 alloy strings, Tesla Pickups and some other cool stuff we are still finalizing with the factory.

Retail price will be US $1195

Ask your local dealer about the new Brooklyn Gear 8 String Guitar

Please also come check it out at the Musik Messe at our booth Hall 4.0 B.53

Dude

Brooklyn Gear at Frankfurt Musik Messe 2007

2007-03-24T13:13:00.000-04:00

Hey Crew

We are getting ready for our annual trip to Frankfurt to exhibit at Musik Messe . Every year we have a great time seeing our old friends and meeting new ones. It is a completely different vibe than the NAMM show. You have a chance to really sit down with your friend, pour a drink and discuss the future.

Brooklyn Gear is in the same location as last year. Hall 4.0 B.53

CHECK OUT BROOKLYN GEAR ON BASS PLAYER & GUITAR PLAYER TV

2007-02-08T18:41:00.000-05:00

Check out Adam from Brooklyn Gear showing the new products including the KSD 6 String, Brooklyn Gear 8 String Guitar and more.

Look under NAMM 2007

www.bassplayer.tv
www.guitarplayertv.com

Dude

Brooklyn Gear at Winter NAMM 2007

2007-01-26T22:54:00.000-05:00

Josh Dunham of Prince with his lovely wife Cora.
Cora is holding her new Brooklyn Gear Drum Wallet.
Cora is the phenomonal drummer for Prince. What a
amazing married couple.
Josh is holding the new KSD 6 string and was playing
thru his Brooklyn Gear 2x15 cab that he will be playing
when he does the Superbowl on Feb 4th!

David Santos of Elton John/Billy Joel, Credence
Clear Water Revival and now getting ready for
upcoming John Fogerty tour with his KSDv70j5.
David also has a 70j4.

Kern Brantly of Destiny Child, Beyonce, Chris Brown,
Bow Wow is a solid EBS and KSD guy along with Jamero
The Brooklyn Gear booth was so busy that Al Carty
had to check out his KSD 5 string in the hallway at NAMM.
Al was so into it he came back the next day to play the new
KSD 6 string.

Robert Pagliari of OHM stopped on by
to visit Adam. Robert uses our EBS pedals
and preamp.

Hugh McDonald of Bon Jovi came on by and checked
out our fine offerings. Hugh has been a great friend to all of
us at Brooklyn Gear. Next time we will get his beautiful
wife Kelly in the picture. She was taking the photo....

Al "Boogie" Carty playing the KSD 6 string. Al just
finished his Rob Thomas tour and now getting ready
for the Taylor Hicks tour.

with his KSDv70j5 playing thru his BG2x15 cab

Marcus Miller checking out the new KSD 6 string 60's

Marcus Miller playing our KSD 5 String Brooklyn

Bryron Miller checking out our new KSD Brooklyn
from Japan. 4 string

Hey Crew

We had a great time at Winter NAMM 2007.

It was one of our best shows ever. We launched great new products, saw old friends, met new ones, poured some great single malt whisky and bourbon's and even had great artists playing in our booth.

New products we launched
1. New Ken Smith Designed "KSD" 6 string Jazz Bass. We are using the Ken Smith Burner Headstock with the existing KSD Jazz Body. It will have the same circuit as the other KSD's though it will have 18ml spacing as compared to the 19ml on the 4 & 5 strings. We are taking orders on the 6 string and expect to ship worldwide in April. The Six string will be available in 60's, 70's and Fretless Black.

Images coming soon!

2. New Ken Smith Designed "KSD Brooklyn" from Japan. These new exciting basses are using the hand picked exotic woods from Ken Smith shop and assembled in Japan. Pricing and shipping dates are still being finalized.

Ken Smith is calling this line his "Brooklyn" line as his first workshop where he made his first basses were in Brooklyn.

Images coming soon.

3. New Brooklyn Gear 8 String Electric Guitar. This new guitar is the start of our new Brooklyn Gear guitar line. The guitar will be available after April as we are still determining pricing because our bridge source is being extra greedy.

The staff at Brooklyn Gear is really excited about the launch of this new guitar line and our new headstock design.

Brooklyn Gear will not be making any Bass Guitars and will solely only work with Ken Smith
for bass instruments.

4. New Brooklyn Gear Drum Wallet. This new drum wallet will be a drum dampner that comes with a drum key that we plan to retail for $20. All the artists who tested the drum wallet that we had on our loaner DWDRUMS snare drum was amazed with how easy it was to put on, secure, use and carry.

Cora Dunham(Josh Dunham wife) of Prince was a lucky lady and was able to take one back with her to Vegas as they prepare for the Prince Half Time Show for the Superbowl on Feb 4th.

Photos of the drum wallet coming soon!

5. New Brooklyn Gear Leather Guitar Straps. These new leather designed guitar straps come from our great friends and designers Morning Breath. This team of designers have really cut loose and came up with some great looks.

Images to follow.

69EYES back in the USA on Tour

2007-01-26T22:28:00.001-05:00

The great Finnish Hard Rock Band "69EYES" are back on tour in the USA. They are celebrating their recent signing with Caroline Records with a nationwide tour.

Above is Adam from Brooklyn Gear backstage with the Bass Player Archzie and his EBS rig which is a TD650 and a 410 & 1x 15 cabinet. Adam had the chance to check out the band at their Philly date at the Trocadero

You can check out the tour dates and more info on 69EYES at www.69eyes.us

Dude

Josh Dunham of Prince with his new BG2x15 Cabs

2006-11-19T23:07:00.000-05:00

Josh with his BG2x15 cabs before sound check at Rio in
Vegas on the Prince Tour. We made Josh two custom
grills for this tour.

Mr. and Mrs. Josh Dunham with Adam from
Brooklyn Gear at "BUTTER" June 2006 after
a private Prince concert. A amazing night.
Prince played till 4am in the mornign:)

You may not have heard of him before but you will now. Josh Dunham has been with Prince for several months now. We personally had a chance to see Josh play with Prince twice this year in NY. Once at the Nokia theater in Times Square and a private party at "Butter" a hot club in the NYC.

Josh uses a EBS TD650 head and has been looking for a new cabinet for a long time. After trying different cabs out he decided to go for a custom Brooklyn Gear cab. Gerry Doyle of www.doyleaudio.com who is the brain and brawn behind the Brooklyn Gear cab worked very closely with Josh to come up with a custom 2x15 cab with custom grill covers.

You can check out Josh along with his lovely wife who is also the drummer in the band with Prince at the RIO in Las Vegas.

Bass Player Live 2006

2006-11-19T22:19:00.000-05:00

Marcus Miller playing a KSDv60j4
Marcus Miller playing the KSDv60j4
Marcus Miller and Gerry Doyle
Victor Wooten checking out the BG410 Cab

This year Brooklyn Gear exhibited at Bass Player Live www.bassplayerlive.com in NY sponsored by Bass Player Magazine. It was a great time but just so loud. Hopefully next year Bass Player will pick a location that has higher ceilings.

Enough with the grumblings......Again it was Bass Player Heaven. There were terrific clinics being run and amazing players just walking around and trying out gear. Players with little experience were especially encouraged to pick up a instrument and play. That is what it is all about.

Our booth was slammed and so many players wanted to check out all our gear including the Ken Smith Designed Basses "KSD" that is the rave on all the message boards. What got players real attention was being able to play thru the new custom Brooklyn Gear cabinets. In fact Gerry Doyle of Doyle Audio Engineering www.doyleaudio.com the brain and brawn behind our cabinets was in town for the show.

EBS was a also a hit at the show and EBS rigs were requested and found in several other bass builder booths.

Dude

Glen from Bass Specialties

2006-11-17T18:07:00.000-05:00

We had a chance to go and visit the next great bass store in the Philly area called "Bass Specialties" www.bassspecialties.com

Glen opened up not too long ago and is now stocking KSD Basses and EBS gear. If you are in the area go check it out.

Hugh McDonald and Bon Jovi Rocks Giants Stadium

2006-08-02T16:43:00.000-04:00

We have always been big fans of Hugh and Bon Jovi since we were young rockers ourselves. So when you get the chance to meet them in person and see what great guys they are you get even more pyched. Plus the backstage passes really help with the experience:)

Bon Jovi just finished up their latest tour and we had a chance to see the band. Big thanks to Hugh for hooking us up as we right up front in front of the stage. This band just simply rocks. What a amazing feeling when there are 60,000 people behind you in the stands singing Bon Jovi songs back to the band.

Above are some pictures we took from the concert. We were just having too much fun than to bother with taking a lot of pictures.

Dude

Brooklyn Gear at Summer NAMM in Austin 2006

2006-08-02T16:20:00.000-04:00

Brooklyn Gear exhibited all of our great gear at Summer NAMM 2006 in Austin this year. We really fell in love with Austin. Except for the heat it was a great time for all of us. The local BBQ and Tex Mex food was awesome.

This year we thought we would do something different in our booth so we hired a Cigar Roller. The guy you see pictured above rolled and handed out cigars to our existing and new dealers who came by our booth. A little bonus for those who made the trip.

A special thanks to Glen from Austin Bass Traders and John from Bass Emporium for being great hosts to us.

A very special thanks to Jon Smith(Ken Smith's Son) who also came to the show and helped us out at our booth. People stopped to listen in the aisles when Jon played. Jon is becoming a terrific player as his father is even before he started building basses www.kensmithbasses.com

Steve Rodriguez and his new KSDv60j5

2006-08-02T15:52:00.000-04:00

Steve Rodriguez the studio and concert sound of Alicia Keyes is going back on road this month to Europe. Steve has also been busy as MD for "Rihanna" with whole bunch of TV Dates.

Steve originally met up with Brooklyn Gear a few years back when he heard about our Perfect Strap and took them on tour with him with Alicia Keyes for over 18 months. He has been our friend ever since.

So Steve is going back on the road so he came back to Brooklyn Gear to check out the KSD basses. After checking a couple of models out he found that 60j5 he wanted.

Above is a picture of Steve in our sound room when he came by in August 2006 before heading out on tour.

You can also check out Steve at his Myspace Account at www.myspace.com/stylesmusic

Chris Chew of North Mississippie All Stars and New KSDv70j5 Lefty

2006-08-01T16:59:00.000-04:00

Chris Chew of North Missisippie All Stars had a chance to come by the offices of Brooklyn Gear. We have always been a great fan of Chris's and the North Mississippie All Stars www.nmallstars.com

Chris has been playing EBS pedals for some time now so we knew what he liked before he came over.

Once Chris came over to our sound room and picked up that lefty 70j5 he was hooked.

So check out Chris and the North Mississippi All Stars who do over 200 shows a year the next time they come around your neck of the woods.

Dude

Jackie Clark and Lee Ritenour in Japan

2006-06-06T17:52:00.000-04:00

Jackie Clark our EBS and KSD endorsee was recently in Japan. Jackie just met up with guitar master Lee Ritenour and sent us a pic.

Hopefully Japan will give us back Jackie.

Dude

LEFT HANDED KSD BASSES NOW SHIPPING

2006-05-27T00:06:00.000-04:00

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.

Dude

Victor Bailey getting ready to go back to Europe

2006-05-23T17:08:00.000-04:00

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.

Dude

Tony Hall on tour with Phish's Trey Anastasio

2006-05-23T16:38:00.000-04:00

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.

Dude

Juan Carlos Mendoza getting ready for Summer Tour

2006-05-23T11:41:00.000-04:00

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

Dude

Brooklyn Gear's best Frankfurt Musik Messe ever

2006-05-22T21:52:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-22T21:29:00.000-04:00

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.

Dude

Ready Freddie Washington going on tour with Steely Dan

2006-05-22T21:25:00.000-04:00

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.

Dude

Jim Mayer takes his EBS Pedals on tour with Jimmy Buffett

2006-05-22T21:23:00.000-04:00

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

Dude

Marcus Miller Clinic in Toronto at Revolution Music

2006-05-20T11:14:00.000-04:00

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

Dude

Rob Cureton of Stacy Mitchart visists Brooklyn Gear

2006-05-03T23:43:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-03T23:37:00.000-04:00

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.

Dude

Gavin Rossdale of Bush & Institute using Pickboy

2006-05-03T17:29:00.000-04:00

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.

Dude

Kern Brantly finishes up Destiny Childs Tour

2006-05-03T16:46:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-03T15:51:00.000-04:00

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
Dude

MEGADETH James Lorenzo at Frankfurt

2006-05-02T23:56:00.000-04:00

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.

2006-05-02T22:25:00.000-04:00

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.

Backstage after Jennifer Lopez & Rob Thomas Concert

2006-04-19T00:03:00.000-04:00

NY Radio Station Z100 www.z100.com had a concert at the Meadowlands with several great acts performing including Jennifer Lopez, Rob Thomas, Gwen Stefani, Black Eyed Peas and much more......

You can check out Al Carty with Rob Thomas on tour this summer at www.atlanticrecords.com/robthomas/

Byron Miller is currently touring with Jennifer Lopez domestically and internationally.

Photo Above: Adam from Brooklyn Gear on the left, Byron Miller in the center and Al Carty on the right.

69 Eyes take their EBS Rig across the USA

2006-04-18T00:28:00.000-04:00

Archzie the amazing bass player of 69 Eyes www.69eyes.com has been playing his full EBS rig with a TD650 & 2 410 cabinets on their USA tour.

We had a chance to check out the band when they played the Bowery Ballroom www.boweryballroom.com in NY back in March.

Hope to check them out the next time they come to the USA.

Below are some pictures of Archzie with Adam from Brooklyn Gear on the tour bus.

Brooklyn Gear & Orange County Choppers

2006-04-18T00:14:00.000-04:00

Brooklyn Gear received an invitation from the Junior & Senior Teutul of Orange County Choppers www.orangecountychoppers.com to join them at the Intrepid Air Museum www.intrepidmuseum.com for a auction to support the Intrepid Air Museum and the Fisher House Foundation www.fisherhouse.com which is a wonderful foundation that supports families whose members have been wounded serving America.

Brooklyn Gear's President Adam Levy had the opportunity to meet the Teutul's who are as crazy in person as they are on TV. In fact they even have Adam in Episode 55 "Military Bike 2" bidding during the auction and raising his hand on one of the bikes built for the show. For the record Adam insists that he was bidding on a $300 picture not a $50,000 Chopper.

Celeb sightings included Steven Tyler of Aerosmith who was also there to promote the auction and follow up with the chopper the guys from Orange County Choppers were building for him.

Hopefully one day the Teutul's will build us a Brooklyn Gear Chopper....

Byron Miller joins Jennifer Lopez on her International Tour

2006-04-11T23:50:00.000-04:00

Just received word that KSD & EBS endorsee Byron Miller will be touring with Jennifer Lopez this month on her latest International Tour. You can check out the dates at her website at www.jenniferlopez.com