#gibson-guitars — Public Fediverse posts

On this day in 1958 Gibson received patents for Flying V guitars.

Responding to slumping sales after the Fender Stratocaster release in 1954. Gibson president Ted McCarty called on his design team for a line of "modernist" guitars .

“I told them what I wanted and asked them to make me some sketches,” McCarty told Andre Duchossoir. “We chose the ones we liked, and then we called in (guitar foreman) Larry Allers and John Huis and asked if they could make them. You can design anything on paper, but building and producing it is a different matter.”

#GibsonGuitars #FlyingV

Gibson Launches A Search for The Iconic “Marty McFly” Guitar From ‘Back to the Future’
#MusicNews #News #BacktotheFuture #GibsonGuitars #Music

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/gibson-searching-for-back-to-the-future-guitar-1236235897/

Ouch

I’m too old for this shit.

Shoveling, I mean. I felt okay when I first came back inside after shoveling, but now that a few hours have passed… Ouch town, population me, bro. Every inch of me is sore, and despite having two of the best nights sleep I’ve had in ages over the last two nights, I am completely exhausted.

I don’t know if I have the energy to do anything other than sit on the couch for the rest of the night. I think we were already planning on ordering out for dinner tonight. Maybe I’ll be able to crawl to the door to bring the delivery in.* I mean, really… that’s asking a lot.

It is a good thing I managed to put rhythm guitar tracks onto two RPM Challenge songs this morning before I shoveled. I don’t know if I will be able to do any more than that tonight, though I really need to. We’ll see how the pain goes. For now though, it’s just couch time. Much needed couch time, believe me.

Here’s a few guitar pictures to hold us over until next time.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316576981/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316806444/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316994390/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316805879/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316805869/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315686237/in/datetaken/

#365 #365Challenge #365Project #exhaustion #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonday #gibsunday #Guitar #health #LesPaul #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #pain #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #RpmChallenge #rpm2025 #shoveling #shovelingSnow #Sleep #Snow #snowShoveling #SongWriting #sore #soreness #Weather #winter #z5

I was today years old when I learned about this obscure bit of #Gibson #guitar #history. It makes sense that many industries had their Rosies.

https://sheshreds.com/the-kalamazoo-gals/

#GibsonGirl #gibsonguitars

Friday

It’s Friday. One week from today I am going to be writing about how I only have an eight hour work day standing between me and a full week’s vacation. I am already hyper focusing on it. Crazy.

I just watched the season two finale of Silo. It was very good. I sort of screwed things up though. The show is based on a series of books. A few weeks ago I got tired of waiting to see what was going to happen on the show so I started reading. I’m going to finish the third and final book probably this weekend. When the super confusing twist happened in today’s episode I knew what it was and I knew it was coming. I spoiled myself. I don’t care though because the books are good, the show is good, and the books and the show are just different enough that I can still feel engaged with both.

This week I also watched the season (series?) finale of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and I am down to the second season (series?) finale of The Alienist which I am enjoying a lot even though it’s creepy as hell. Fortunately season two of Severance came out today. I’ll watch that tonight before bed, I think. Silo is over, but I still have a Friday show to watch out for. That’s nice.

Last night I watched a video on the youtubes. Five Watt World’s Short History of the Les Paul Deluxe. My first “real” guitar was a Les Paul Deluxe. I didn’t learn how to figure out the date on a Les Paul until years later so I have no idea what year it was made. I think it was very late 70’s or very early 80’s. I bought it in 1988 at Russo’s Music in Lowell, MA. All of the knobs had cracked off of it and I never replaced them. I was a kid. I didn’t have the money or even the know how of how to get replacements that would fit. It also had a nasty gash in one of the frets, and I seem to remember that one of the inlays was coming unglued. I didn’t care. I loved that guitar. I adored that guitar.

On a Sunday night/Monday morning in November or December (pretty sure it was December) of 1990 it was stolen out of my car. That was pretty much the end of the world for me. I have never really recovered from the violation of it all. I bought my Les Paul Custom a short time later and that is still my number one guitar… but some days I really find myself missing that Deluxe. I would have loved to have taken it to a good shop and had all of the negatives fixed up. It would have been epic, mini-humbuckers and all.

Watching this video made me feel all the feels. Steve Hackett, Pete Townsend, and me. All of us, Les Paul Deluxe veterans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWhGc6jxaw

Okay. Time to stop farting around and get ready for work. Happy Friday, everyone. The weekend awaits.

#appleTv_ #dust #fiveWattWorld #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonLesPaulDeluxe #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulDeluxe #severance #shift #silo #skeletonCrew #StarWars #starWarsSkeletonCrew #Television #theAlienist #wool #YouTube

Trogly’s Guitar Show Documents My Guitar (Almost)

This is a recent photo of one of my guitars:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54217562374/in/dateposted/

Here’s a photo of me playing this guitar on stage with Lizardfish on July 2, 2016.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/27944530872/in/album-72157669507169580/

Here’s a crazy low-res pic of me playing the guitar with Break Even at some point between 2003 and 2005.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/16093998422/

Here’s another one for luck. Same bar but maybe a different date? No, probably the same date. If I had to guess it was August 1, 2003 at J Rags in Tewksbury, MA. Pretty sure that was the date. It was our first gig together.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/15907426420/in/photostream/

The guitar is a 1979 Gibson ES-335 Pro that I bought off eBay in 2000 for a smidge less than $800. It was a mess when I first got it. It has no finish on the back. It’s stamped a factory second. Most important, some previous owner was a heavy, heavy smoker and it was covered in cigarette grime and sludge. I managed to clean it (mostly) and I just fell in love with it.

A few minutes ago, the Trogly’s Guitar Show posted a video to youtube of a 1979 Gibson ES-335 Pro! My guitar! Well, not my guitar but my year, make, and model! Even the same color! Awesome! Trogly’s 335 Pro was a mess too, and all the greater for it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdKmIBc1eq0

#1979 #Gibson #gibsonEs335 #GibsonES335Pro #GibsonGuitars #Guitar #trogly #troglySGuitarShow #YouTube

Happy 4th advent and happy #gibsunday 🤩😁

Inspired by the colour of the two Gibson SG 90 Doubles I decided to decorate them a little bit… 🥰

#merrychristmas #happy4thadvent #advent #christmastime #christmastree #guitarsofvitoc #vitocguitars #gibsonguitars #gibson90series #gibsonsg

It’s Gibsunday! 😍
Behold these two beautiful sisters in “metallic turquoise”. Both are Gibson SG 90 Doubles. The left one /w Floyd Rose is from ‘89, the right one /w string through is from ‘88. Both have Wilde Pickups by Bill Lawrence, L-500L in bridge and L-45 in neck position. The left one has a kill switch instead of a tone pot. Love these green machines! 🥰

@gibsunday #gibsunday #gibsonguitars #gibsonsg #gibsonsg90double #gibson90series #billlawrencepickups #guitarsofvitoc #vitocguitars

#gibsonguitars #trump #ceaseanddesistletter This one is hilarious ;
“A company selling guitars endorsed by Donald Trump has been issued with a cease-and-desist order by major guitar brand Gibson.”

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-guitars-cease-desist-1991724

#TFG #GibsonGuitars #BrandInfringment #TrumpBrandGuitars

Gibson guitars has sent a cease-and-desist order to Trump Guitars.

Is there anything this douchebag won't brand and fail at?

Coming soon: Trump brand condoms.

"These red, white and blue with the MAGA logo, guaranteed to make even YOUR member look huge. Fine print on the exclusive gold foil package: Trump brand condoms are not liable for any resulting STD or pregnancy. Unless it was one used by Elon Musk. He LOVES kids."

Thanks, Gibson

Did you see that the fuhrer-elect was advertising a guitar brand? $10k for what I can only imagine is a $200 Chinese knock off of a Gibson Les Paul (that’s just a theory, of course. I don’t care to investigate whether it’s true or not so I am not saying it is or is not true, dig?). When I first heard of this it was a headline with an image of the fucking slime ball holding one of the guitars. My first thought was I hope it’s not an actual Gibson. My second thought was, if it is an actual Gibson I will never give them my money ever again.

Fortunately a related story hit the presses yesterday that soothed my company-loyalty fears:

Gibson Hits Trump Guitars With Cease and Desist

Just for clarity’s sake, I should mention that I have not read this article. Reading anything about that fucking nazi piece of shit makes me physically ill. I got the rundown via social media yesterday. I linked to this article because it came up first for me on a Google News search. There. Transparency.

Anyway, I just want to thank Gibson for not releasing a $10,000 nazi signature model and for going after the trademark infringing assholes who are trying to scam guitar playing fascist collaborators. Not that the guitar playing fascist collaborators haven’t earned a good scamming. Well… they voted for the nazi piece of filth so they’ve already been scammed once. Let’s say they’ve earned a second thorough scamming. Whatever.

Learning that Gibson has not aligned itself with evil kinda makes me actually want to buy a new guitar. How about a Les Paul Junior, or a Les Paul Deluxe, or a Firebird? You know, something to show my thanks.

#Gibson #GibsonGuitars #Guitar #Politics #trumpIsAFascist #trumpIsANazi #trumpIsEvil

#gibsunday with a real burst. This is a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, named “Louis.” Easily the lightest LP I’ve ever played. Thx to blackmagicguitars for letting me experience it 🤘

Hear it here ⬇️
https://youtu.be/M1fz6aPGEuI

#gibson #gibsonlespaul #gibsonguitars #gibsonguitar #lespaul #1959 #burst #guitarphotography #guitar #guitarist #guitarplayer #guitarpedals #songwriter #musician #music

I did it again. I messed up my morning routine. Big time. I overslept, then I had a problem that came up and screwed up my morning exercise. I am just off today… again.

I did work on some music though. I put rhythm guitars onto two songs. I used my SG for both of them.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53996964295/in/datetaken/

Then I switched to my Les Paul Custom and put leads onto one song.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53996538811/in/datetaken/

Musically speaking, what’s next for today? I haven’t a clue. I’ll let you know once I straighten out my brain. Maybe in 25 years or something? Who knows.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/09/15/another-screwed-up-morning-routine/

#20245090Challenge #365 #365Challenge #365Project #5090 #5090Challenge #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonSg #Guitar #Music #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photoADayProject #photography #Recording #Songwriting

Soooo I played an original ‘59 Gibson Les Paul Burst today… hear it here 👇
https://youtu.be/M1fz6aPGEuI?si=ktj-iG-IG24fE6uf

(Thx to Black Magic Guitars, give him a follow on Instagram)

#gibsonguitars #gibson #gibsonlespaul #1959lespaul #BURST #gibsonguitar #guitar #guitarist #guitarplayer #guitarpedals #songwriter #musician #music

Here we have a post sharing two random things on this quiet Sunday evening that have nothing to do with anything anyone other than I would ever care about.

First, I watched an episode of The Trogly’s Guitar Show on YouTube today and accidentally learned something about my first Gibson guitar. It was a Les Paul Deluxe but I never learned what year it was made. Deluxes date from the late 60’s to the mid 80’s (I think). I bought mine in 1987 and always assumed it was from the late 70’s, but I had not learned how to get the manufacture date for a Gibson guitar until after my Deluxe was stolen in 1990.

Thanks to Trogly’s I can narrow the date down a little. The guitar had a Gibson chainsaw case. From a description on the episode I watched it was a version two chainsaw case. Trogly told us that Gibson introduced the version two chainsaw case in 1978. Therefore my guitar (assuming the case I had was the original case) could not have been built prior to 1978. That nocks about 10 years off of the possible dates. Thanks, Trogly!

The second item of note: The anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is coming this week. That means Jen and I are in now entering our annual 9/11 remembrance period where we binge a shit load of documentaries. We’re watching the first of the season right now. Things have already been super heavy around here due to my father’s passing. Now it’s going to get heavier still.

I just felt the need to share all of that with the wider universe. You’re welcome.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/09/08/two-random-things-2/

#911 #911Anniversary #911Attacks #911Memorial #911TerroristAttacks #Documentary #documentaryTelevision #Family #gibsonChainsawCase #GibsonGuitars #gibsonLesPaulDeluxe #Guitar #history #Politics #Television #troglyS #troglySGuitarShow #YouTube

Well, I ran out of guitar tracks this morning. I put leads onto two songs (and boy, are the two songs bad. Baaaad songs, bad) and those are the only two things I had that were ready for any guitar tracks. Time to start writing and recording vocals and adding some new songs to the 50/90 challenge worklist.

I played all right today, but the songs I worked on are just bottom of the barrel crap-o-la. Oh well. That’s how it goes with these song writing challenge things. Lots of bad stuff cranked out in the hopes of accidentally coming up with one or two keepers.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53941840176/in/datetaken/

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53940935797/in/datetaken/

There. One photo for each crappy song.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/23/caught-up-for-now-i-guess/

#365 #365Challenge #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #Guitar #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #Songwriting #z5

I fear bad news today and I am stressing out like crazy. Calm down. Focus. It’s going to be okay.

I played a little guitar this morning. It helped a little. I lost track of time though and had to rush to get myself ready for work. Oops.

I have a ton of stuff to get done today at work. I can do it. I can focus. I can handle this stuff.

And right on queue I get pulled into a potentially major issue. Oh good.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53940275420/in/datetaken/

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/22/do-something-2/

#365 #365Challenge #Family #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #Guitar #health #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

I played some guitar this morning. I put rhythm and lead tracks onto one 50/90 song, and leads onto two more. I played very poorly and my finger tips have been torn to shreds. Serves me right for going almost a week without playing at all.

Here is a photo to prove that I don’t always have my guitar’s volume controls maxed…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53938191234/in/datetaken/

(I was doing the Clapton thing where you use both pickups but roll the neck pickup’s volume off a little. It’s not as famous as his “woman tone” thing [dude, come up with better names for this stuff] but it’s something he did when he was still playing Gibsons. Oh, and the woman tone thing? Play the neck pickup and just turn the tone knob all the way down. He sometimes did it with both picksups as well, turning both tone controls all the way down)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53936955727/in/datetaken/

Finally, in case you were wondering…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53938192004/in/datetaken/

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/21/mangled-finger-tips/

#20245090Challenge #365 #365Challenge #5090 #5090Challenge #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #Guitar #Music #Nikon #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #Songwriting

Is the hashtag supposed to be #GibsonDay or is it #GibSunday? They both work. Should I just use both of them?

I haven’t played today, but I did get a couple of pics for whichever hashtag is the right one. I am so unhip.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53931843078/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/53931932694/in/datetaken/

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/08/18/gibson/

#Gibson #GibsonGuitar #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonLesPaulStandard #gibsonLesPaulStandard50s #gibsonday #gibsunday #Guitar #Hipstamatic #iphoneography #LesPaul #lesPaulStandard #lesPaulStandard50s #photography

And yes, these are two beautiful 70s Fender silverface amps. '77 Vibro Champ on top, '79 Princeton Reverb on bottom.

#gibsunday #guitarsofinstagram #gibsonguitars #gibsonsg #whitesgspecial #whitegibsonsg #guitarsofvitoc #vitocguitars

A few years ago I found a website that lets you use the serial number from your Gibson guitar to get information about your Gibson guitar. At the time I had two Gibson guitars. I’ll look them up again, then I will look up my two newer Gibson guitars.

First, my Les Paul Custom:

Your guitar was made at the
Nashville Plant, TN, USA
on September 18th, 1978
Production Number: 27

Next, my ES-335 Pro:

Your guitar was made at the
Kalamazoo Plant, MI, USA
on December 5th, 1979
Production Number: 127

Okay then, those are my two older guitars which might technically be considered “vintage.” Now let us check on the two guitars from the 21st century.

Start with my SG Standard:

Well… this is weird. There are two hits.

Your guitar was made at the
Nashville Plant, TN, USA
on March 10th, 2012
Production Number: 286

Your guitar was made at the
Nashville Plant, TN, USA
in 2018
Production Number: 2258

Right. I bought this one new after Gibson declared bankruptcy in 2018. It actually has a stamp on the back of the headstock right under the serial number that says, “Made in USA 2018 Model.” I guess that means it’s a 2018.

Okay, now lastly my Les Paul Standard 50’s:

Your guitar was made at the
Nashville Plant, TN, USA
in 2023
Production Number: 210004

Huh… right… so the guitar that my wife bought me for my 50th birthday back in 2021 was made in 2023… huh… so looks like the app doesn’t know how to handle the serial numbers from 2021. I guess I should Google it to see if I can find anything…

Turns out they changed the serial number format in 2019 and now we have this info:

It was made on November 16, 2020 and is production number 42.

I can tell by the look on all of your faces that you are fascinated by this.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/14/serial-numbers/

#Gibson #GibsonGuitars #Guitar #Music #Rock #serialNumbers #vintageGuitars #yearMakeAndModel

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When I die, this sucker is going into the casket with me.

I’m probably taking most of this stuff with me too.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/05/17/taking-it-with-me/

#365 #365Challenge #Gibson #GibsonGuitar #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #GibsonLesPaulCustom #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulCustom #Nikon #nikonZ5 #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #z5

Selfiesunday! 🤩😁
Wenn man Gitarren hat, wird einem nie langweilig - denn man lernt nie aus! ☺️

#selfie #selfiesunday #selbstportrait #selfportrait #gitarren #gibsonguitars #gibsonguitar #gibsonsg #sg #gibsonsgnewcenturylimited #whitegibsonsg #billlawrencepickups #billlawrencel500

The Gibson Theodore… a lot of people hate it. I… I guess I… I guess I don’t hate it. I sure don’t love it, but I don’t think I hate it. I almost think it’s cool.

I’ll embed a video below that goes into depth, but the deal is that a few years ago Gibson unearthed a guitar design that was unused back in the golden era of the 1950’s and did a short, very expensive, run out of their custom shop. Recently they released a standard production model that is also grossly expensive, but a whole lot less expensive than the original version.

Yeah the body shape is kinda dumb. I liked the custom shop’s use of P90 pickups rather than the USA version’s use of humbuckers. I like the four knobs on the custom shop over the two master controls on the USA. I very much greatly prefer the bridge on the USA version.

I don’t know. Like I said, I don’t love it but I don’t really hate it. Weird, huh?

Change of subject: unrelated, both the Bruins and the Red Sox won today. The Red Sox snapped a really ugly four game losing streak. The Bruins… I think… clinched the Atlantic Division title… I think… didn’t they? No… did they? I knew they needed a win over Pittsburgh tonight, but I can’t remember if it was a win OR a Florida Panthers loss would clinch things, or was it a win AND a Panthers loss? Also, did the Panthers need to lose, or lose in regulation? I don’t remember. The Bruins won in regulation and the Panthers won in overtime. I guess I’ll find out the answer to this question in the morning. Whatevs, both of my teams won today. Happiness.

Back to the main topic. Where does the Theodore sit on my Gibson Guitar I-Want-One list?

• Les Paul Junior
• Les Paul Standard 50’s with P90 pickups
• Firebird, but not a studio. I want the Firebird mini-humbuckers, not standard humbuckers
• Les Paul Deluxe
• Insert the Theodore here? Maybe.
• Les Paul Special, or SG Special, or SG Junior
• ES-330

Damn… that’s a long list. It’s also an insanely expensive list. Come on, Gibson USA. Help a brother out. Bring those prices down. I don’t want to start thinking about Epiphones. I’m a Gibson snob after all.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/13/i-dont-hate-it/

#Baseball #Bruins #Firebird #firebirdPickups #Gibson #gibsonFirebird #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonSg #gibsonTheodore #Guitar #Hockey #humbuckers #NHL #p90Pickups #RedSox #Sports #theodore

Gibsunday!
Here’re four hot sisters:
- 1988 Gibson SG 90 Double Alpine White, string-through-body. Bill Lawrence pickups
- 1988 Gibson SG 90 Metallic Turquoise, string-through-body. Bill Lawrence pickups.
- 1988 Gibson SG 90 Alpine White, Steinberger KBX Vibrato. Bill Lawrence pickups - this was my 1st Gibson Guitar!
- 1989 Gibson SG 90 Double Metallic Turquoise, Floyd Rose Vibrato. Bill Lawrence pickups.

#gibsunday #gibson #gibsonguitars #gibsonsg #gibsonsg90double #gibson90series #sgguitars

Ich spiel gern an meinem Hebel rum… 😬😁😇

Pic.: @huckleberryking

#vitoc #photoshoot #guitarist #longhairedguitarist #gibsonflyingv #gibsonflyingv90 #gibsonv90 #whiteflyingv #gibsonguitars #pinkjacket #pinkejacke #hebel #tremolo #vibrato

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Watch: JIMMY PAGE, TONY IOMMI And BRIAN MAY Celebrate Opening Of Gibson Garage London
Gibson, the iconic and leading global instrument brand, has shaped sound across generations and genres of music for over a century, becoming one of the most relevant, played, and loved music brands around the world. On February 22, Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Brian May, James Bay, Rosie Frater-Taylor ..

https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-jimmy-page-tony-iommi-and-brian-may-celebrate-opening-of-gibson-garage-london

#JimmyPage #TonyIommi #BrianMay #GibsonGuitars

Beautiful couple, isn’t it? 😍🥰

2022 Gibson Dove Original
1993 Gibson Les Paul Classic Plus

Dove has L.R.Baggs M1 passive pickup
Les Paul has Bill Lawrence L-490 in neck and L-500L in bridge position and an ABM Les Trem 😎

Rupprecht Geiger in the background 🥰
@gibsunday @gibsonguitar #gibsunday #guitars #gibsonguitars #gibsondoveoriginal #gibsondove #gibsonacusticguitar #gibsonlespaul #gibsonlespaulclassic #gibsonlespaulclassicplus #guitarsonsofa #vitocguitars #guitarsofvitoc #cherrysunburst