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Gibson’s Alex Lifeson ‘Inspired By’ ES-355 Due In Stores Monday

27. February 2008

Well, Gibson has yet to put up an official product page for their soon to be released Alex Lifeson Inspired By ES-355, but I’ve noticed at least a few online retailers this morning expecting the instrument to be available for purchase this coming Monday, March 3rd. Billed by Gibson as a “painstaking recreation” of the [...]

Guitar Player Reviews Gibson’s HD.6X-Pro Digital Les Paul

21. February 2008

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I have to tell ya’, I toyed early on with the idea of doing a hands-on review of Gibson’s HD.6X, but the time and equipment required to really put the thing through its paces––and give it the honest assessment it deserves––seemed daunting at best. So, I’m happy to see that the fine folks over at [...]

Gibson Announces Three New Limited Edition Slash Signature LPs

19. February 2008

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Apparently not to be outdone by Fender’s recent foray into massively over-hyped limited edition guitars, Gibson today announced the upcoming release of not one, but three new Slash Signature Les Paul models––each in a strictly limited edition, and hey… one for every price range. According to Gibson–– “On Tuesday April 1st 2008 three very limited [...]

Gibson Announces Guitar Of The Month #1 :: SG Diablo

14. February 2008

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Wow… this thing sure is gaudy ;) Apparently not ready to repeat last year’s rather “love it or hate it” Guitar Of The Week program (we gear hounds sure can be picky, can’t we?) for 2008 Gibson has slowed custom guitar production a bit and will instead be offering the Guitar Of The Month. First [...]

Gibson Releases 1968 Les Paul Custom Chambered

5. December 2007

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Perhaps I missed the announcement during my grief (ongoing,) but it looks like Gibson has introduced a newly innovated re-issue of their ’68 Custom Les Paul––the aptly titled Custom Shop 1968 Les Paul Custom Chambered. As Gibson puts it, a “More resonant, lighter version of a classic.” I’d heard rumor that this was already happening [...]

Epiphone Releases Slash Signature Les Paul Standard Plus Top

28. November 2007

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One for the Slash or Velvet Revolver fanatic… Epiphone today announced the release of their new Slash Signature Les Paul Standard Plus Top––basically a lower-cost, and of course fully-sanctioned remake of Gibson’s Custom Shop Slash Signature LP. While not quite as staggeringly good looking as its much more expensive Gibson counterpart, the Epiphone Slash LP [...]

A Closer Look At Guitar Of The Week #37 :: The ’67 SG Special Reissue w/P-90′s

4. October 2007

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Over the past thirty-seven weeks Gibson’s put out a few real lookers, a few clunkers, and a wide array of just so-so semi-customized Guitar Of The Week instruments, but yesterday’s release of the ’67 SG Special Reissue with P-90 pickups is easily the one guitar from this program that I’d really like to own. Week [...]

Gibson Jumps The Gun, Reveals Next Twelve Guitar Of The Week Models

2. October 2007

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Oops! I have to admit I took a double-take when I cruised over to Gibson’s website this afternoon only to discover that they’d rather unceremoniously pulled the veil off all but four of the remaining sixteen Guitar Of The Week instruments. Now, I have no way of knowing if it was intentional or not––heck, someone [...]

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