Gibson Guitars

Gibson guitars have ruled the rock and roll roost forworld was obsessed with "modern" things. Space
many years. Ever since the nineteen thirties whentravel was on the minds of many creative people
pioneer electric guitar player, Charlie Christian took toworking in a multitude of areas of industrial design. So it
them, Gibson guitars have always been very popularwas one morning that the Gibson Flying V awoke and
with guitar players. They have the magic combinationattempted to take flight. Unfortunately it only survived
of technical excellence and prestige and pizzazz. Asfor about one year. It slept then until the flamboyant
pioneers in the electric guitar field, they have alwaysnineteen seventies welcomed it once more to the
made good use of every opportunity to get theirworld. Some famous guitarists, Jimi Hendrix among
guitars played by the leading guitarists. The companythem, played it for a while and it found its way into the
began in 1936 but Gibson guitars took hold of theshops again, but only for a short time. The Gibson
1960's with both hands and gave the era a big tonguecompany tried to rescue the situation by introducing
kiss. With the phenomenal growth of rock 'n' roll thethe Firebird, a variation on the Flying V thought up by a
solid body electric guitar which evolved in the fiftiescar designer. The result looks more like a bad drawing
became the ultimate accessory for the youngof an electric guitar.
gentleman wishing to have loads of sex.Recently Gibson has added an astounding feature to
The era produced many famous Gibson guitar modelsthe world of guitar playing. The Powertune system. It
like the Double Cutaway SG, the Firebird and the Flyinggives electric guitars the ability to tune themselves, thus
V. Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Peter Green, Chet Atkinsmaking sure that the secret of many professional
all big names of the guitar, played Gibson guitars. Andguitar players remains perfectly safe. Another thing
one of Gibson's triumphs - the Les Paul model was,that might surprise some people is the fact that Gibson
and still is, in the hands of a boatload of guitar playinghas held its own quite well in the area of acoustic
pioneers. The Les Paul model was the company'sguitar manufacturing. There is an Arlo Guthrie guitar in
response to public enthusiasm for the electric guitar.the Gibson Artist Signature Series of guitars. Possibly
Les Paul was arguably the most popular electric guitarsomebody in the early seventies thought Arlo was
player in the world who had previously invented hisgoing to be really, really big. Other artists to have
own solid body electric guitar. He was signed up byGibson acoustic guitars named for them are Elvis
the Gibson company to lend his name to their newPresley, Sheryl Crow, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson
guitar and actually made some design suggestionsand Pete Townshend.
which may or may not have been followed up,So if you find yourself wondering what makes Gibson
according to who you listen to.guitars so special the answer is in the company's ability
But the world of making great guitars was not allto keep its name alive in the mind of the guitar playing
cheese and crackers. In the late nineteen fifties thepublic.