A musical chimera, shrouded in the silvered mists of myth and legend, the Gibson Moderne has long been known as the enigmatic “guitar that never was”… or, was it? Designed as the third member of a trio of guitars in the new Modernist Series, prototypes of which were displayed at the 1957 NAMM show, the [...]
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Derek Trucks is one of my all time favourite guitar players, nobody can make a guitar sing quite like Derek with his incredibly lyrical style of slide playing often fused with Indian influences. Derek is very well known for playing a certain Gibson SG as his main guitar and so I think it is quite [...] Over the past two decades, Derek Trucks has risen from child prodigy to being one of the most accomplished and respected guitarists working today. Co-leader of the acclaimed new Tedeschi Trucks Band and longtime bandleader of The Derek Trucks Band, Trucks has established a reputation for exploring and blending a variety of musical genres while [...] The SG Special was born in 1961 as a rough ’n’ ready alternative to the flagship model, the Standard, and has been a favorite of countless rock, blues, punk and fusion players ever since. To celebrate this Presidents Day, Guitar Center has commissioned a unique SG Special from Gibson USA—a guitar that includes all the [...] As conceived by guitarist and inventor Les Paul and Gibson President Ted McCarty in 1954, the original Les Paul Custom was all about the black-tie looks and elegant appointments, a “black beauty” through and through with a gloss black body, a jet-black ebony fingerboard and top-shelf features. While staying true to the original ethos, the [...] Despite his tragically short career, Paul Kossoff’s guitar work invariably enters at the top of any discussion of classic Les Paul performances. His playing with seminal British blues-rockers Free, and on his acclaimed solo album Backstreet Crawler, exhibited a tone, skill, energy and pure musicality that put him among the pantheon of great British guitar [...] With its ’80s and early ’90s-inspired design and visual cues, the Les Paul Traditional line offers all the fat, sweet, snarling Les Paul tone and unparalleled playability that Gibson fans love, and which so many of today’s players grew up lusting after. Now Gibson USA gives this popular guitar the all-mahogany purity of classics such [...] Gibson Custom’s new ES-330 is reminiscent of the classic Gibson, late ’50s feel, including the comfortable neck shape blending into the soft curves of the rounded fingerboard binding. The new ES-330 is a lightweight, lively sounding guitar whether played acoustically or plugged in. With the 16th fret neck joint and just the right neck angle, [...] One for the shredders, Gibson have created a Les Paul with features to lure the Metal fans including a Floyd Rose Trem, which some would say was sacrilege on a Les Paul but those people probably don’t play Metal. I’m not really up on my Gibby’s so wondered what Richlite was reading the stats: The 22-fret [...] |
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