Gibson Dickey Betts SG 2011 of Derek Trucks
Derek Trucks is an American guitarist best known for being a member of the Allman Brothers Band and founder of the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Trucks began playing guitar at the age of nine. His early repertoire was heavily influenced by the blues, and inspired...
Chuck Berry’s Gibson Guitars
Chuck Berry, the father of rock n roll, receives a new tribute from the Gibson Custom Shop: his 1978 ES-355 returns in a limited edition by Murphy Lab. Rock n roll was born on a Gibson, an ES-350T to be precise. Chuck Berry embraced...
Albert King and Lucy Guitar
Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American guitarist and singer who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time. He is perhaps best known for his popular and influential album Born...
Jimmy Page number one and number two
Jimmy Page mainly played Gibson Les Paul guitars, among them the 1959 Les Paul Standard nicknamed “Number One”. This was his main recording and live guitar from around the time he started working on the Led Zeppelin II album. Aside from this guitar, he also...
Gibson and Bob Marley
Around early May 1973, Bob Marley walked into Top Gear, a scruffy music store on Denmark Street, a small side street in central London filled with offices and music-biz shacks. Top Gear, known for its stock of good second-hand instrumentation, regularly welcomed famous and...
Lucille the B.B.King’s guitar
B.B.KING The biography of BB King, pseudonym of Riley B. King, starts with his birth on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bena, Mississippi. A blues guitarist but also a historic singer from the 1950s onward: with 41 studio albums, 19 live albums, 10 collections...
Frank Zappa’s guitars
“Considering the fact that Frank rarely used anything standard, it’s hard to imitate his sound. The important thing is to have the right mid tones and to have the feedback controllable at will. Frank devised the system to do this by equipping his guitars...
Zakk Wylde’s most famous Gibson Guitars
Zakk Wylde is best known as the former guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, founder of the heavy metal band Black Label Society, and as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and occasional actor. He was also the lead guitarist and singer of Pride & Glory, which released a...
Eric Clapton’s Guitars and gear
Eric ‘s collection of guitars features some of the most iconic instruments in Rock and Roll history. His first guitar was an inexpensive Kay Jazz II model , but in 1964 Clapton already replaced it with a Fender Telecaster red, which he used on most...
The Gibson SG and Angus Young AC/DC
Angus Young is one of those guitarists who has been “attached” to one guitar for his entire career. In Young’s case, his guitar of choice is the Gibson SG, which he has used virtually since the beginning. His first guitar was a 1970 or...
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