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Using Chris Buck’s ’50s Epiphone Flying V, Huw Price demonstrates how you can take an affordable Epiphone and transform it ...
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 ...
Officials say that during the making of the film, filmmakers went to look for the guitar, and it was nowhere to be found. “Guitar has always been a big part of my life,” says Michael J. Fox.
Gibson Launches a Search for The Iconic “Marty McFly” Guitar From ‘Back to the Future’ “It’s somewhere lost in the space-time continuum, or it’s in some teamster’s garage," Michael ...
The next specimen was: the first production model of a 1924 Gibson L-5 archtop, signed by its designer, Lloyd Loar. It had steel strings, f-holes, and the so-called sunburst finish that guitars ...
Dave Westerbeke’s guitar collection going to auction One of the 50 lots offered during the May 6 auction will be a 1941 Martin D18 once owned by David Grisman. Also, a 1961 Gibson L-5 CES once ...
American gospel musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing and playing a Gibson L-5 guitar onstage at Cafe Society Downtown, New York City, 11th December 1940.
Prices range from $12,500 (a rare Gibson L-5 guitar) to free (guitar slides). Most of the instruments are used, with many on consignment.
A 1939 Gibson L5 Archtop guitar owned by Sister Rosetta Tharpe sold for more than $76,000, while the pieces of a smashed Dolly Parton guitar fetched $5,200. The proceeds from the sale of several ...
An Ibanez 30th-Anniversary GB Kimono Inlay,used to perform his duet on guitarist Norman Brown’s single Nuthin’ But A Party. A Gibson L5 Wes Montgomery, complete with a real tortoise shell pick guard.
It was a color the guitar star had suggested himself to present a sense of luxury in his signature model, although Les Paul has also told of having asked Gibson to make an ES-175 with a gold ...
Soaking up the jazz, pop and country sound waves from the family radio, he soon became an adolescent one-man band. Performing under the name Rhubarb Red, he sang, blew harmonica, beat a washtub and ...