Dan Gold is a 15 year music industry veteran who spent
a decade as Mid-Atlantic District Sales Manager with legendary
Fender Musical Instruments. He is also a working bass player with
over 30 years of gigging experience. Danny has lived in the Main
Line suburbs of Philadelphia all his life.
In June of 2009 Dan combined his industry expertise, knowledge
of the market and musical background and opened up Danny's Guitar
Shop in Narberth.
Check
out the Danny's
Guitar Shop article written by Olivia Lehman for the Main
Line Times. - "Walk into Danny’s and you’ll
see lots of gear packed into small, fresh-faced quarters. Everything
gleams save the vintage instruments, which merely glow. There
are Fender guitars, Gretsches and Jacksons too, banjos, ukeleles,
mandolins, harmonicas, stands, strings, amps, picks, slides, straps,
cases, even tchotchkes like retro lunchboxes, coffee mugs and
bracelets fashioned from guitar strings."
But
did
you know that Danny's Guitar Shop is more than just
a music store? That's right, it is also a multimedia
experience!
Danny’s Guitar Shop is also a music show all about
guitars and related stuff. It’s aimed at music
enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds; players and
non-players alike. The show's creator, writer, co-producer
and host is Dan Gold, musician and music industry veteran.
Danny's Guitar Shop segments are 3-4 minute morsels
of guitar infotainment that have been featured on the
XPN Morning Show, hosted by Michaela Majoun and Bob
Bumbera. The pieces are produced by Larry Freedman at
2nd
Street Productions.
88.5 WXPN is the listener supported, award winning public
radio music station based in Philadelphia at the University
of Pennsylvania. XPN can be heard throughout central
and eastern PA, southern NJ, in the Baltimore area,
and world-wide at www.xpn.org.
Danny is an old friend of XPN, having appeared on Jonny
Meister’s Blues Show, Gene Shay’s Folk Show,
and Kathy O’Connell’s Kids’ Corner.
He has mastery of his subject, but presents it in a
readily understandable, often humorous manner,giving
the listener a priveledged insider’s VIP backstage
pass into the world of guitars and related musical instruments.
Danny also has a background in education, sales, marketing,
and artist management. Danny's Guitar Shop, the television show, is a project
currently under development and being shopped to potential
broadcast and cable outlets. Take a look at our pilot
episode, where we visit the C.F. Martin Guitar Company
to see how they build their legendary guitars in Nazareth
PA.
Below
is sampling of 4 audio clips from the radio show, and
another video clip from the television show:
1
- Here is the "Electric Bass Guitar" radio
segment of Danny's Guitar Shop, as heard on WXPN's
Morning Show.
2
- This is the "Acoustic Guitar" radio segment
of Danny's Guitar Shop from XPN's Morning Show
3
- Here's our "Big Pink" radio segment from
the Morning Show. This is the legendary house near
Woodstock where Dylan and The Band hung out in the
late 60's and recorded the "Basement Tapes".
4
- This is our piece on "Flat Picking" with
guest Mark Cosgrove, as heard on the XPN Morning Show.
Below
is a short video trailer of Danny's Guitar Shop, a music
show all about guitars and gear, aimed at music enthusiasts
of all ages - not just guitar geeks. Splintered
Sunlight is the band shown in a segment below in the
video clip, with Dan Gold filling in on bass guitar.
