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| It is possible that a few of the players listed below never used a pre 1985 Gibson but I don't think so. I am also aware that Zakk Wylde, Ace Frehley and Slash etc also use new Gibson Nashville made guitars. But I would bet strong money that privately each and every one of them would rather play an old 1959 model than what they are advertising today. Or a Ghostbuilt Model |
| Duane Allman | Chet Atkins | Jeff Beck | Chuck Berry | Frank Zappa | Dickey Betts |
| Mike Bloomfield | Jack Bruce | Jimmy Buffet | Toy Caldwell | Neil Young | Larry Carlton |
| Jack Casady | Chas Chandler | Charlie Christian | John Cipollina | Angus Young | Eric Clapton |
| Gilby Clark | Albert Collins | Larry Coryell | Charlie Daniels | Rick Neilson | Ray Davies |
| Don Everly | Phil Everly | Herb Ellis | Tal Farlow | Mark Hitt | Mary Ford |
| Ace Frehley | Robert Fripp | Peter Green | Bill Haley | Richie Scarlet | Frank Hannon |
| Jimi Hendrix | John Lee Hooker | Steve Howe | Tony Iommi | Johnny Winters | Peter Frampton |
| Robert Johnson | Mathias Jabs | Joan Jett | Barney Kessel | Rick Derringer | Johnny Smith |
| Trini Lopez | Albert King | BB King | Freddie King | Leslie West | Robbie Krieger |
| Alvin Lee | Lyle Lovett | Lonnie Mack | Brett Michaels | Joe Walsh | Little Milton |
| Bill Monroe | Wes Montgomery | Gary Moore | Scotty Moore | Pete Townshend | Graham Nash |
| Ted Nugent | Jimmy Page | Felix Pappalardi | Joe Pass | Mick Mars | Joe Perry |
| Les Paul | Alvino Rey | Lee Ritenour | Howard Roberts | James Hetfield | Roy Rogers |
| Allen Rossington | Sal Salvador | Carlos Santana | John Scofield | Mike Rutherford | Rudolph Schenker |
| Tommy Shaw | Slash | GE Smith | Steve Stills | Lindsey Buckingham | George Thorogood |
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Gibson Exposed Just Who is Gibson Anyway? Gibson Guitar Company has long been associated with high quality and beautiful looking guitars. Gibson has never been known for innovation in the electric guitar world. They are more of a traditional type of company. After all a Les Paul guitar is not rocket science, It is simply a Lloyd Loar design jazz guitar that has been made smaller and solid. They didn't even bother to change the neck joint. Today Gibson is part of a giant conglomerate that used to be called CMI or Consolidated Musical Instruments For years CMI has dominated the music world with lines like, Epiphone, Tobias, Steinberger, Gibson, Spector, Kramer, Mapex, Pearl, Photon, Dobro, Flatiron, Ramirez, Baldwin, Oberheim and others that I can't think of right now. Several years ago CMI changed it's name to Gibson, Why? Because Gibson was their most recognizable trade name. As I said earlier Gibson was associated with quality and nostalgia so they became a target for corporate raiders. Remember the real Gibson company, Today they are known as Heritage. Many people at Heritage built much better guitars than Gibson. Today however Heritage has been delivering very poor quality products and makes a habit of lying to their customers repeatedly about delivery dates. The quality has fallen off to the same level as Gibson and I no longer recommend either company. John Q. Public thinks that when he buys a Gibson he is buying into some mystical operation. I think that John Q. Public assumes he is joining an elite group of "in the know" musicians that are quality conscious and investment savvy. NOT! I used to work for Gibson and while it is certainly not a poorly made guitar it is designed in the stone age. I could go on for hours about the grade of woods and the overall quality. PRS blew Gibson back to the starting gate in 1985 when they came out with the Custom 24. Today PRS barely can hold it's own against such builders as, Jim Jaros, JET, Rick Gledura, Gary L Jacobs and others. It aggravates me no end that some corporation can come along and buy the Gibson name. Just because Gibson was a purchased entity the quality changed almost immediately.
Disclaimer: This list has been compiled by looking through catalogs and my own actual experiences, where I have viewed the particular artist actually using the instrument. If you look through all my endorser lists you will see artists whose names appear attached to several different brands. Understand that in some cases the artist in question either actually uses both brands or maybe he likes one brand but gets paid lots of money by a different brand therefore he uses both. Unfortunately there are a lot of unscrupulous people out there, people who would pretend that they like one brand more than another because it benefits them financially. Young minds today are so gullible that they will believe what ever they hear and see on MTV. Most of the magazines will not expose these companies because they are always afraid of losing advertising accounts. In my opinion... I believe that a guitarist should use a little common sense in making a decision to buy a guitar. I believe that most guitars on the market are well constructed and play well. (even the ones made by the big corporations) I strongly suggest that guitarists should OPEN their minds to accepting the smaller companies that still hand-build they are basically the innovators of the industry. Ed Roman There are Endorsers and there are Users There is a very big difference between the two
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