Gibson Guitar Blog

No more foreplay, no more Guitar Hero for you — get back to the basics, and that means a Les Paul Guitar, vintage or remodeled, new or just old; the sound is awesome as always. Whether the riff is just in your head, long etched in vinyl or mp3 filed, there is only one true way to get it out of you.

Strap it on; that’s right this a Les Paul Guitar.There’s no one else watching; no parents, just you and a so lux-luscious savage tone to come. Now plug-in. Yeah, yeah every one and his sister wants to make some noise, but this here Les Paul Guitar is not just about noise. The Les Paul Guitar has always been about design, about craftsmanship, which requires more of a neck-up focus and approach, if catch my drift..

From the very forerunning start, Les Paul himself, and those who have followed his epic lead have constantly and consistently worked to improve and upgrade the Les Paul Guitar inside and out without sacrificing any its classic features or sonic integrity. Indeed, for the manufacturers of the Les Paul Guitar nothing has been left up to chance, but every real player’s imagination. So it’s all up to you.

Now Kid, you are go. No, no, that’s not a Les Paul Guitar on the Teen Titans’ theme song; maybe some kind of Honda knock-off. But that’s not us, is it? Think Mick Ronson. Think his solo in Moonage Daydream. That’s right, he’s playing a Les Paul Guitar, just analog effects, no prophylactics for this boy; nothing between his Les Paul Guitar and Pig amp, but a Cry Baby wah pedal. This is where it all begins for you, too, Kid. Mick had a little room just like this one, a bunch of old records, and a Les Paul Guitar; maybe the pick-up was a little askew, but. Yeah, yeah, another country, yes. But you tell me what are all those retro girl guitar bands out of Japan playing their two or three chords on. Where do you think that sound comes from? A Pro-tooled Gameboy? Hardly! That’s a Les Paul Guitar, baby.

Now, then give your best middle-eight from Hurdy-Gurdy Man, and we’ll see if you’ve got any of the early Page in those precious fingers of yours…

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!