Gibson Guitar Blog

Elvis to Elvis, Pete to Slash and on– for Fifty years + GIBSON GUITARS has helped them put it all on line. Now it’s your turn. Who are you? You’re the one in your parents basement with the spanking brand new GIBSON GUITARS SG model. Yeah, one day you will have to upgrade and your parents will kick you out, soon enough. But, these are inevitablities you can handle.What is not so certain, is where your sound is going to take you from here. Whether your next whistle stop is some Second Life beachhead or a Green Day cover band in Helsinki, GIBSON GUITARS will be there for you. GIBSON GUITARS is cross-over friendly, after all.

You, most all you have seen, have heard Townsend’s Sunburst1968. You have thought of it from time to time, since you were maybe 12, as though it were not merely a GUITAR, but a force of supernature. It is for you, this very extraordinary sound that is your reason for living, for playing.GIBSON GUITARS. That’s another given, just like when you’re going through your scales and broadening out onto the bridge of My Generation, you hear that rather muffled scream from upstairs underneath your fuzztone. GIBSON GUITARS is ready for any GUITAR Rockin’ certainity: the complaints of neighbors, door-slamming, laundry tossing,little sisters, etc.

Brother, GIBSON GUITARS knows the drill. So hey, perhaps you should just pump up the volume.

Now that your Mom has gotten that Flying V.of a fit out of your system, it’s 4/4 time to concentrate on yours. And that is where GIBSON GUITARS comes in. No, not to pull your plug, like your Dad did the other day, but to set you up for your next big move. A bigger space, means a bigger amp. Or if you really want to live large - even on an acoustic scale - then you are talking about GIBSON GUITARS, too! And that can only mean a GIBSON J-200 ACOUSTIC. The ‘J’ does not stand for ‘just because’. To all things, my friend, there is a purpose, and in your GIBSON GUITARS case the ‘J’ means ‘JUMBO’. Again.and over and over you’ve heard Townsend do all that really awesome and intense build and sustain on a a great big GIBSON ACOUSTIC. How does it happen? What makes him so good?

Well, yeah he’s playing a GIBSON; so what? The so what from GIBSON GUITARS is that for one: you’re not alone, and secondly, when you finally get out of this place, there’s a GIBSON GUITARS J-200 ACOUSTIC, just like Pete’s — waiting for you. So what are you waiting for Time Waits for No Man to hit the charts, again? Well, that in all likelihood will never happen, but what is a dead certainty is that GIBSON GUITARS is ready for you, to!