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Gibson press release. The solidbody Les Paul Standard and semi-acoustic ES-335 are the two most influential electric guitars ever to hit their respective genres. Now Gibson brings them together in the ...
Trying to keep up with Gibson’s avalanche of new releases is becoming a full-time job: blink and you might miss something. For example, hot on the heels of the Les Paul Modern Studio released ...
Around 1961, Gibson introduced its new “sideways” vibrola to the ES-345 and ES-355, as well as the new SG-bodied Les Paul Standard and Custom. These oddly configured devices produced a dip in ...
Can you teach an old guitar new tricks? The jury's out on that. But an old guitar can teach you, just like when Dave Davidson ...
Gibson's Memphis division, which creates the mainly laminate 'f-hole'- styles, seems to take a different slant on modernism that's typified by the recent semi-solid ES-Les Paul and the downsized ...
He got his red Custom Shop Strat in the mid ‘80s and it become his go-to electric guitar. After joining the Allman Brothers ...
From 1958 to 1960, Gibson launched the Flying V and Explorer models, as well as the first semi-hollow body guitar, ES-335, and the Les Paul Standard sunburst finish. What’s that mean to the ...
A 1950s Gibson Les Paul wasn’t always a bank-breaking investment. Cheap Trick guitarist and songwriter Rick Nielsen bought his first Les Paul, a 1955 gold top, in 1965 at a bookstore in Rockford ...
Les Paul‘s original Gibson Les Paul solid body electric guitar will go up for auction at Christie’s New York on October 13th. The guitar, the earliest approved production model of the famed ax ...