Guitar Makers to Participate in The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone Video Series

Press release
Source: No Island Media

Hartley Peavey, Paul Reed Smith, McGrgegor Gaines, Robert Godin, Ralph Novak, Matt McPherson and Bob Taylor have officially agreed to participate in the landmark series, The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone, to be released by No Island Media in the Fall of 2006.

"With the addition, and enthusiastic participation, of Hartley Peavey, Paul Reed Smith, McGrgegor Gaines, Robert Godin, Ralph Novak, Paul Reed Smith, Matt McPherson and Bob Taylor in The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone
series, a niche series by a small independent, production company has blossomed into a truly historic media event," says Dina Walker, Executive Producer of No Island Media. "This is the first time that the visionaries, entrepreneurs and engineers who propel the $1 billion guitar industry are joining together the share their stories in a single series, and we are very honoured to be able to present a platform for them to do so."

The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone is being produced in close cooperation with fourteen of the leading guitar, and guitar amplification, visionaries in the world. Each episode focuses on a single person's quest
for guitar perfection- be it through acoustic, electric or amplification design.

"The combination of personal stories and how they influence the individual dreams and pop culture of the world is a profound one, " says Trevor Andrews, Executive Director of The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone. "These stories contain everything that is important about life- music, business, passion, craft, fortitude, tradition, innovation. Simply put: This is an essential series for anyone who has ever owned or listened to a guitar."

The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone can be pre-ordered from the No Island Media website: www.noisland.net.

A preview of the First Act episode can be found on the No Island Media website, here: www.noisland.net/guitar2.html.

Guitar enthusiastists that pre-order The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone in July or August 2006 and are automatically entered in a $10,000 guitar giveaway.

Volume One of The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone will be released September 15, 2006, and will include:

Hartley Peavey
Paul Reed Smith
Kelly Butler (First Act)
Trev Wilkinson (Italia Guitars)
Robert Godin
Bob Taylor
PLUS: a conversation with tube amplification engineer James Brown (Kustom).

Volume Two of The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone will be released on October 15, 2006 and will include:

Ralph Novak
Ren Ferguson (Montana Gibson Custom Shop)
McGregor Gaines (National Reso-Phonic)
Matt McPherson
Stuart Spector

Performance and long-form DVDs, focusing on individual visionaries and performers, are in pre-production, with planned release dates in November of 2006.

About No Island Media
No Island Media is a co-operative venture of independent media professionals committed to the production and distribution of "deep-think" journalism and long-form conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and
creative visionaries. The Search for the Perfect Guitar Tone represents a personal, historic record of the handful of dedicated, talented individuals that are behind the $1Billion guitar industry- granting unprecedented look at the who, what, why and how of an industry that defines the sound and dreams of the world.

No Island Website: www.noisland.net.