My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
Les Paul was my godfather.
I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.
I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.
Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
I went to Kalamazoo to get my first Gibsons back in '76.
There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
