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,...
Less, Les Paul more SG The SG as we know it today didn’t come about until 1961, but the origins of the SG actually began in 1958 when Gibson introduced the double cutaway Les Paul...
A Scroll In The Arch - Gibson Tal Farlow The Tal Farlow model is striking, based on the ES-350 that he played earlier in his career, it has a binding scroll in the Venetian cutaway accentuated by a delicate...
the Paul Gibson introduced “the Paul” in 1978, a dressed down and more affordable version of the Les Paul. It was essentially the precursor to the LP Studio that came out five...
