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.
In school, so he could play a role in booking bands for school 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 the 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 Los Angeles 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 videograher 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.
Filming the China Club Pro Jam led to many more opportunities including shooting 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 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.
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 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, is a leading branding & intellectual property
advisor/manager for several leading entertainment artists & media
companies in the world. His first client was Michael Jackson's company MJJ Productions and his subsequent estate. Prior to getting MJJ as a client, all of the prospects turned Greg down, including Eric Clapton, Whitney Houston and several others. But once MJJ became his client, Greg was able to secure Clapton, Whitney (and her subsequent estate), Clint Eastwood, Samuel L. Jackson, supermodel Carol Alt and dozens of others as long times clients, where he is the sole administrator of key IP assets.
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.