He owns 300 Gibsons - including 3 from Slash. An interview with Todd Puma
If you’ve seen Todd Puma’s Instagram account, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s an official Gibson page.
Actually, it belongs to the owner of a private collection so vast and so impressive that even Slash has 3 guitars from it - trading 3 of his own for them.
And this is especially poignant for Todd because it was Slash that inspired the collection to begin with.
I had the opportunity to talk to Todd, and over the course of the interview he shared:
Why he got started and how he’s now followed by Mark Agnesi, Gibson’s Director of Brand
His reason for preferring to own new guitars instead of pre-owned
The surprising reason he thinks Gibson Custom Shop models are so good
Whether he’d trade them all for original ‘Bursts
How the trades with Slash happened
His approach to taking stunning, realistic photos of his guitars
You can watch the full interview below (but before you do, this was an interview rather than a showcase of the guitars. Some viewers have been disappointed about this so I’m giving you a heads up. And what’s the reason? Simply, I wanted to talk to the person behind the collection. Todd has already done an amazing job at showing the guitars on his Instagram channel and they’re not going to look their best on a webcam. Instead, I’ve put links in the video description to Todd’s Instagram so you can see them in high-definition there.)