My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.
My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.
My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.
My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.
51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.
I was reading an article with Stevie Ray Vaughan a long time ago, and the number '1959' stuck out to me for some reason. So I started searching those out as the band got more popular and I could actually afford one. And I found this one in Los Angeles. That's what introduced me to the whole world of 1959s.
During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
