ABOUT GREGORY J. CHAMBERLAIN
Gregory J. Chamberlain is a serial entrepreneur, mostly in the music business where it intersects with TMT (technology, media & telecom) and EMT (entertainment, media & telecom), music video programming, music business affairs and related IP (intellectual property) management including song publishing, merchandising & licensing rights and domain management & related infringement detection & resolution.
As a music video programmer, he recently acquired MusicTV.Com and merged it into a network of music video brands, where he is the founder and sole owner at 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 offshoots, all powered by FreeV at FreeV.Com and it's digital web and intellectual property management service.
He was a early adopter and lived through the rise of Silicon Beach as a tech hub where it met the music, film and television industries, but many years ago started exploring fresher opportunities outside of California, such as in liberty centric zones like Wyoming, South Dakota, and eventually Texas.
He is the founder of the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, based brain-trust known as Silicon Hole. If Silicon Valley and Silicon Beach is A440hz, Silicon Hole is more in line with nature's frequency of A432hz! With a focus on advancing new ideas and ventures in TMT (Technology, Media & Telecom), Silicon Hole has fingers on the pulse of unique future approaches to geothermal energy, preventative health care & longevity including medical ozone & non-pharma centric longevity platforms, 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 & virtual property and real property & physical assets, with a wide variety of administration services. Specifically for IP owners, I&RP advises on the planning & implementation of real time chain of title & chain of custody logging & documentation systems, and can provide services in maintaining ongoing infringement detection, monitoring, resolutions and/or pre-litigation intelligence.
He is the founder of I&RP offshoot, Royalty Excavation, which serves intellectual property owners and mineral rights investors in discovering 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.
After attempting to start a magazine for student leaders, which failed to gain traction, he acquired a taste for the Libertarian political philosophy from magazine publisher, Malcolm Forbes. It was at that time, Greg studied the Austrian school of economic theory vs. the Keynesian school of economic theory and whether or not the Federal Reserve system is unconstitutional or not.
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.
Greg's work in political writing combined with his experience running social media accounts for multiple major recording and theatrical artists in the early days of social media, led him to lobby and secure a job as the official social media administrator for the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign. That opportunity lasted through to the 2010 midterms, where Greg gained more depth in political & monetary philosophy and survived the hard knocks of political campaign combat. Most meaningfully, he got to play 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.
Greg eventually sold The President at ThePresident.Com and a related IP portfolio to Mark Cuban in 2016/2017.
Greg continues to be 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 cassettes, along with a small song publishing imprint 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 (whose players who 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 in LA, Hollywood and the former Beverly Hills' Tatou nightclub on Beverly, as well as a few stints in New York's China Club. 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 & international icons and studio heads. The archives consists of hundreds of hours of unrehearsed jam session footage 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 was not only educational, but helped open doors on multiple levels.
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| 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 with Harry Garfield.
Greg credits Shorty Rogers and Michael Rogers, for teaching him about the music publishing business and how to nurture song copyrights and get music placed for maximum long term value.
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.
He is a 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 his very first client, MJJ, all of the prospects who Greg approached turned him down, including Eric Clapton,
Whitney Houston and many many 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, Jack Nicholson, Lee Michaels, Jessica Biel, Lezza Gibbons, Melissa Etheridge, Luther Vandross, Dave Koz, Warner Bros. Records, Glass Jaw, Warner Bros. Studios, and many others. His mantra to struggling entrepreneurs is, "Don't give up on yourself, no matter how hard it gets. If you can conceive it, you can achieve it!"
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.