INDIANAPOLIS -- Music store owner Amos Arthur took a chance in 1958 and ordered a new, odd-shaped electric guitar. The instrument made by Gibson didn’t have the gently rounded body that had been the ...

As Guitar Aficionado notes, its look was Gibson's attempt to come up with a Modernist answer to the Fender Stratocaster. In 1956, Gibson president Ted McCarty commissioned some new designs, and the ...

For the final time in his Kiss career, Paul Stanley donned the face paint, picked up a suite of his prized electric guitars and took to the stage at Madison Square Garden last weekend for the band’s ...

Soon after joining Guitarist, I was assigned to interview Joe Bonamassa and he began telling me about an amazing guitarist called Chris Buck. Rather than let Joe carry on, I felt obliged to tell him ...

Following up the recent news of another Greeny Les Paul replica, Gibson has announced the latest creation in their ongoing collaboration with Metallica’s Kirk Hammett. The Kirk Hammett 1979 Flying V – ...

There are few instruments more distinctive than the Flying V. It’s odd that a guitar this funky looking has been commonly used by a wide range of guitar players from country and blues to rock, but it ...

Gibson has unveiled the Rudolf Schenker Flying V, a new signature model for the Scorpions guitarist. In striking black and white livery, this is a Flying V with thoroughbred form: solid mahogany body, ...

The back of Alive!, the first live album Kiss ever released in 1975, and also one of the first LPs Dave Mustaine ever purchased, read “Kiss uses Gibson Guitars because they want the best.” This was ...

The “Flying V” is one of the more identifiable guitars in rock, but Gibson has run into trouble trying to lay claim to the body shape in Europe. According to Guitar.com, a judgement was recently ...

Indianapolis music store owner Amos Arthur took a chance in 1958 and ordered a new, odd-shaped electric guitar. The instrument made by Gibson didn’t have the gently rounded body that had been the ...