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Name:
Robert
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Style:
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Email - chappers@bandm.co.uk to secure a Limited Edition Monkey Lord signature guitar (The ML1) \m/
No money required yet, this is just to register your interest!
The guitar will be ready for Xmas and will retail for about £250 GBP ;-) Chappers
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Barnes & Mullins launch first ever online collaborative guitar design project.

B&M are excited to announce the launch of the worlds first new media driven guitar design project in partnership with guitarist Rob Chapman. Named The Youtube Guitar Guru by Eddie Kramer, legendary producer/engineer of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, Chapman is known as 'the Monkey Lord' to his many online fans.

Regularly ranked in YouTube's Top 5 most viewed musicians in the UK, Chapman began to turn heads within Barnes & Mullins and Youtube/Google when they noticed that his videos were receiving 10,000 views per day from his loyal social networking following. It all happened so fast Said Chapman, I just remember reaching 1.5M views on Youtube and then I got the contact from Google offering me a contract to become a partner. I firmly believe that my online success is largely due to my determination to keep my content inclusive and interactive always inviting a response from the audience. Basically, I like people - I still reply to every email or comment if possible and the guys on YouTube really like that personal touch.

It was at the LIMS show that Barnes & Mullins Director Bruce Perrin first saw Chapman at work, I was amazed that almost everyone recognised him, he was followed to the Faith Guitars stand by dozens of his fans as his crew filmed him. I realised there and then that we needed to work together to mutual benefit and the Rob Chapman Signature guitar was born

Chapman decided to allow his online following to help design his signature guitar, Rob explains. "I wanted the ML1 to be two thirds mine and a third the people's, after all they will be buying it so it just made perfect sense to have them involved in the design. I just came up with an initial concept and then let the fans tell me how they wanted it to be specified, eventually narrowing it down to four basic concepts which they voted on in a huge surge which actually put my forum out of action. In the first 30 minutes the "Vote on my signature guitar" thread had 14 pages of new members all putting forward suggestions and voting.

The ML1 which will be the worlds first social-network driven guitar design, is a standard Strat type guitar with a few modern appointments. I have always encouraged guitarists to find their own sound, and I wanted this guitar to be a blank canvas that an artist could modify to his own end. It was crucial to me that all the tone points were top quality, but that the areas which my demographic like to modify such as Pickups were kept affordable. I spent the majority of the build budget on areas that are harder to upgrade such as great quality tone woods, tuners and a decent bridge

As this goes to press only 5 days after the online launch of the concept Barnes & Mullins have received over 40 pre-orders for the ML1 guitar, even though no exact specification has been decided - an impressive achievement in itself, but especially within the current economic climate. The official pre-order process will go live during July.

This is really quite a big deal, says Alex Mew, B&Ms Marketing Manager. Its incredibly exciting to be involved in this project, as Social-Networking has been a very powerful influence for quite some time now with people of all ages using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In this age of genuine People-Power, there is no excuse for not delivering exactly what the people want. After all, all you have to do is ask them and thats exactly what were doing.

The ML1 Rob Chapman Signature guitar will be launched under the Chapman by Gould brand, and is expected to be released by Christmas 2009. To pre-register to buy an ML1 just email chappers@bandm.co.uk Include your contact details and how many guitars you would like!

You will be able to follow the progress of Robs ML1 guitar from the end of July via www.gouldguitars.com
You can find Rob on YouTube www.youtube.com/robchappers and his website is www.themonkeylord.com
Formation Date:
June 14, 2008
Record Label:
None
Label Type:
Independent
Band Members:
Rob Chappers - (Guitar & vocals & Monkey Lord) Stick - (Drums & Stylophone) Rain - (Bass & Fitness)
Country:
United Kingdom
Occupation:
Guitarist
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Monkey Lord in Stick's home studio recording bits of our forthcoming single breath!! Curry, Shred and all sorts of fun banter. www.themonkeylord.com
 
 
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We headed to Stick's home studio to record Phantom Power and Breath. Three days of Teken, Wipeout, Chinese food and shred ;-)

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Channel Comments (716)
burnedoutgolfer (23 hours ago)
Phantom power just owns!  Sweet riffage and tight musicianship amongst you guys! Happy holidays!
-SLOTH
316Lunatics (1 day ago)
Hey there i had to▐▐ you video right quick to tell you i love your vlogs, very unique... be sure to keep making more... also a shoutout would be awesome..
AlexMcshred6505plus (2 days ago)
... it was still bloody good though.
AlexMcshred6505plus (2 days ago)
don't want to dis-hearten u monkey-lord but in phantom power. wear it says; INSERT SHRED SOLO
u actuly wrote SHED......... FAIL!
BlackMamba609 (6 days ago)
Cheers for addin us rob, have a listen to/comment on our stuff.
lovin your work!
robostomo1 (1 week ago)
ty lol
robostomo1 (1 week ago)
rob put out another vid :P
ACironmaidenDC (1 week ago)
Is the 
ESP Horizon NT II DBSB good?
TIGERSINACAGE (1 week ago)
good shit man!
maneli (1 week ago)
Rob the main man mang! Thanks for subscribing :) Looking forward to the winners of the acoustic competition!

Maneli
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