The PRS Guitars founder answers the million dollar question: why were all the early Gibson Les Pauls Goldtops?

The 120-year-old maker of historic instruments such as the Les Paul electric guitar sent a cease-and-desist letter to 16 Creative, the agency that is marketing specially branded Trump Guitars.

Electric Guitars; Old gold: 1954 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop. News. By Guitarist ( Guitarist) published 29 March 2016 ... So this 1954 Les Paul could be considered as something of a pioneer - a great ...

The 120-year-old maker of historic instruments such as the Les Paul electric guitar sent a cease-and-desist letter to 16 Creative, the agency that is marketing specially branded Trump Guitars.

The hand-made Les Paul models produced in Kalamazoo in the 1950s and '60s -- as well as some of those made later by Gibson Guitar Corp. in Nashville, Tenn. -- have been used in too many hit songs ...

Ironically, it wasn't a commercial hit at the time, and was discontinued in favour of the SG-shaped Les Paul model. Yet by the mid-1960s, Eric Clapton and other notable players started praising the ...

Neil Young performs with Old Black, his Gibson Les Paul, at 2017 Farm Aid, in Burgettstown, ... As for guitars, Young said. “I buy guitars mainly to remember something by.

A guitar company touting an endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump has been hit by a cease and desist order from Gibson.. According to Guitar World, the 130-year-old guitar manufacturer ...

Everything can be traced back to Les Paul. First, consider that he invented the solid-body electric guitar. The Gibson model that has carried his name since the 1950s is one of the most iconic ...

The home of Les Paul and SG guitars would recover and return to crafting instruments for world-class players, but it wouldn’t be the only flood weathered by the century-old guitar brand that decade.

Among the many, many inventions of Les Paul, who single-handedly changed the sound of popular music with the solid body electric guitar and multitrack recording, was something called the multiplier.