In the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of trying to make its flagship Les Paul solidbody electric guitar fly in a skeptical market. Adding a luscious sunburst finish in 1958 to the ...
Gibson had used the ‘Electric Spanish’ or ‘ES’ designation since the launch of its first electric guitar, the ES-150, in 1936 ...
Amid the global hunt for the long-lost Gibson ES-345 that starred in Back to the Future, the firm’s CEO Cesar Gueikian has now teased that a Custom Shop reissue of the iconic electric guitar is on the ...