About

ABOUT GREGORY J. CHAMBERLAIN 

Gregory J. Chamberlain is a lifelong multi-sector serial entrepreneur, mostly in the music business where it intersects with TMT (technology, media & telecom), and IP (intellectual property) & related Brand Management. 

Gregory J. Chamberlain is the founder and sole owner of a network of long running music video brands that include Music Television at MusicTelevision.Com, the "Indies" at TheIndies.Com and it's growing Indies Network of "Indies" brands across multiple other sectors, The Quiet Storm at TheQuietStorm.Com, X Music TV at XMusicTV.Com, and several other offshoots, all powered by a related more expansive brand known as FreeV at FreeV.Com and it's portfolio of digital web and intellectual property management services.

Greg is the founder of a Jackson Hole, Wyoming, based brain-trust known as Silicon Hole, a cooler version of Silicon Valley and Silicon Beach, because it's gets very cold in Wyoming! Silicon Hole is meant to be a philosophically contrarian answer to both Silicon Valley and Silicon Beach, with a focus on advancing new ideas and ventures in TMT (Technology, Media & Telecom), unique approaches to geothermal energy, preventative health care & longevity, smart disruptive low technology, and into many areas of business, civic enhancement and emerging trends in society that the vast majority of people have not heard of, yet.

He is the founder of I&RP (Intellectual & Real Property), a East Texas based corporate advisory & filing service that serves owners of large portfolios of intellectual property and real property (real estate, planes, trains, automobiles and physical assets) with a wide variety of administration services. Specifically for IP (intellectual property) owners, I&RP advises on and provides real time chain of title & chain of custody logging & documentation systems, engages in constant infringement detection, monitoring and pre-litigation intelligence.

Greg is the founder of I&RP offshoot, Royalty Excavation, which serves intellectual property owners including song writers & song publishers, as well as mineral rights investors, in the discovery and subsequent collection of hidden uncollected royalties.

LIFE OF GREGORY J. CHAMBERLAIN

In school, so he could play a role in booking bands for on campus concerts, dances and formals, he ran for student government multiple times and served as Student Body President twice, served as special events chairman in his Sophomore year and served as Jr. Class President. It was no surprise to many when he began a newsletter titled The President, where his love for political debate led him to spend many years writing about U.S. foreign policy & U.S. monetary policy, challenging the many covert and overt U.S. led wars based on lies, along with challenging the Federal Reserve system that could fund such wars without a formal declaration of war by Congress. Those efforts led to a stint as the official social media administrator for the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign through to the 2010 midterms, where he played a prominent behind the scenes role in the rise of the Ron Paul inspired Tea Party movement, and in breaking new world records in online political fundraising. He eventual sold The President at ThePresident.Com and related IP portfolio to Mark Cuban in 2016/2017. Greg is still involved, behind the scenes, in gaining support for well vetted anti-war and fiscally sane candidates of substance.

Starting in the late 1980's Greg operated a independent record label called Groove Music that released compilations, and a small song publishing unit known as Groove Songs. In 2015 he sold the branding rights including GrooveMusic.Com and GrooveSongs.Com (and a large portfolio of related IP) to Microsoft when they launched Microsoft's "Groove Music", which was Microsoft's answer to Apple's  iTunes.

Before MTV was in business, Greg was busy shooting videos of emerging bands on primitive equipment by today's standards.

During a period when began living in Hancock Park in Los Angeles, he was promoting a local rock band known as The Apostles (which later morphed into the Grammy Award winning band known as Train). He booked The Apostles as first ever act to play at the grand opening of the Hollywood location for the legendary China Club that was originally started in New York. On that fateful night, Greg organized the filming of the show and the owners of the club were impressed with the set up and asked if he would be willing to be the official videographer of the China Club Pro Jams going into future. Greg subsequently became the official video of those jams from 1988 until 1999/2000. Greg owns the archives of those jams which consisted of the world's most legendary session musicians and major stars who would drop in for impromptu jams once a week, in front of audiences consisting of Hollywood icons and studio heads. The archives consists of hundreds of hours of unrehearsed jam session footage, filmed by Greg, of China Club regulars and random drop-ins including Jeffrey "Skunk" Baxter, Rick James, John Entwistle, Herbie Hancock, Billy Preston, Sam Kinison, Tower of Power Horns, Lee Thornberg, Billy Idol, Dr. John, keyboardist/Hammond B3 player Mike Finnigan, Skip Van Winkle, Cars guitarist Elliott Easton, guitarist Miles Joseph, Lindsey Buckingham, Temptations vocalist Ali Woodson, Ellis Hall, Chaka Khan, bassist Gerald Johnson, drummer Steve Ferone, guitarist Al Di Meola, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Terry DeRouen, Scotty Page, Kelly Moneymaker, Robbyn Kirmsse, Shae Chambers, John Mayall & Willie Dixon, Slash, Howard Hewitt, Kal David, Johnny Rivers and many many more.

In the early 1990's, Greg used his computer skills to help director Steve Silver organize the pre-production story boards, and assisted in the making of the Van Halen music video for their song titled Dreams, which was shot on 35mm film at the Whiskey a Go Go. That experience helped open doors on multiple levels.

Photo: Sammy Hagar, Greg Chamberlain and Eddie Van Halen

Filming the China Club Pro Jam led to many more opportunities, including shooting music videos and live concerts for many great acts, such as when Greg met the legendary drummer Tris Imboden (Chicago, Kenny Loggins Honk, etc). Tris invited Greg to film a live concert album alongside audio engineer Guy Charbonneau of Le Mobile, for Tris' then wife, Cecilia Noel and her band, Cecilia Noel & The Wild Clams. She was signed by Kenny Komisar (Jerry Greenberg's nephew) to Sony Music. That work led to Greg filming promotional electronic press kits and music videos for acts signed to Sony, including Michael Jackson's record label at the time, MJJ Music and Jerry Greenberg. That work led to a very long list of work throughout the industry. 

As Greg and the A&R and marketing/promotion people at the labels were seeing MTV slip into oblivion with reality programming, while slipping away from music video programming, he became disillusioned. So, in 1998, Greg founded Music Television at MusicTelevision.Com, and subsequently has built up a music video network alongside his other proprietary brands including The Indies at TheIndies.Com, The Quiet Storm at TheQuietStorm.Com and a technology & free video website known as FreeV at FreeV.Com.

Greg is also a lifelong musician whose main instruments are upright and electric bass. Other instruments include piano related to his jazz composition & arranging studies at Dick Grove School of Music, in addition to his attending two summers at the Stan Kenton Jazz Clinics in his youth, where he studied under Leon Breeden & Hank Levy. He studied bass privately under legendary bassists, Max Bennett and Ray Brown. Greg worked as a session musician under luminaries such as Shorty Rogers while he was alive, and under Shorty's son, Michael Rogers, who was a contractor for the major film studios and Universal Music Publishing's feature film & soundtrack division.

As a multi-dimensional and very out of the box thinker, he has been a long time confidant, advisor, trends forecaster and strategist, serving multiple prominent family offices and business leaders across several industries including entertainment, hospitality, real estate development and banking.

He has also managed and overseen management of a wide variety of business for some of the world's leading recording & theatrical artists, their companies, subsequent estates and related philanthropic efforts.

His company, FreeV's Sub Registry - Intellectual Property Management, (part of FreeV's web services portfolio), is a leading branding & intellectual property advisor/manager for several leading entertainment artists & media companies in the world. Greg's first client was Michael Jackson's company MJJ Productions and his subsequent estate. Shortly after securing MJJ as a client, Greg picked up clients including Godfather of Soul, James Brown, Warner Bros. Records and several of their acts. Prior to getting MJJ as a client, all of the prospects who Greg approached turned him down, including Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston and several others. But within a short period after MJJ became his client, Greg secured Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, Whitney Houston (and her subsequent estate), Clint Eastwood, Samuel L. Jackson, supermodel Carol Alt and dozens of others as long times clients, where he has served as the sole administrator of key IP assets for nearly three decades. Past clients include Godfather of Soul James Brown, Melissa Etheridge, Luther Vandross, Dave Koz, Warner Bros. Records, Glass Jaw, Warner Bros. Studios, and many others.

Greg enjoys spending as much time as possible each year in mastermind sessions with exemplary entrepreneurs, executives, creative artists and inspired individuals across several industries.