You’ll know Epiphone today as Gibson’s alter ego, with its line of well-priced alternatives to the senior brand, as well as reincarnations of some of its own historic models such as the Casino, Texan ...
A Gibson hollowbody was in the hands of the first electric guitar hero, and helped shape the blueprint of rock alongside another icon in 1955. They can be a jazz mainstay or a choice for rock legends ...
The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer like Gibson. The winds of change would soon blow through the company’s ...
Wife swap jokes aside, this thing is pretty cool and VERY culturally significant. Anyone with a passing knowledge of classic rock lore is familiar with the most famous rock-n-roll love triangle of all ...
In the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of trying to make its flagship Les Paul solidbody electric guitar fly in a skeptical market. Adding a luscious sunburst finish in 1958 to the ...
While ogling a pair of ‘golden era’ PAF-loaded ES-175Ds at Vintage ‘n’ Rare Guitars in Bath, we stumbled across an extraordinarily rare find: a 1965 Charlie Christian blade-pickup ES-175… Nothing ...