An Okie From Muskogee Even after getting his name on a guitar, more often than not Kessel continued to gig and record with the ES-350 over his own model. Likely that was his personal preference,...
Is This Love That I'm Feeling? The first high-end model of those was the SG-175 and that’s what Yamaha originally offered Santana as the starting point for his custom guitar. He suggested some improvements, mainly to...
Gibson Flying V 2.0 In 1978 Tim Shaw of Gibson pickup fame was tasked to breathe new aesthetics into two “old” models. They were to be the Explorer E2 and Flying V2. The common...
Mosrite's Answer to Gibson In the Mosrite heyday, soon after The Ventures guitars started to take off, Semie thought it was a good idea to make a hollowbody guitar, likely to compete with Gibson....
Gibson Johnny Smith From Johnny’s kitchen table he designed the guitar from scratch with full autonomy, blessed by McCarty himself. Once the designs made it back to Kalamazoo only minor cosmetic changes were...
Kirk Got His Guitar - ESP 400 Series In Metallica’s “One” video Kirk Hammett played a 400 Series S-Type and marked the beginning of a relationship with ESP that continues to this day. Hammett’s 400 is a little different,...