When Joe Ganzler found Gladys, it was love at first sight. She had a curvaceous body and graceful neck. When he held her in his arms and turned her on, she filled with electricity and purred. "The ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Joseph Branston/Total Guitar Magazine In the late 1950s, Gibson was in the last throes of ...

KENT >> OK Vintage Guitars just might just be the understatement of the Kent business world. For the last year, this Railroad Street shop in the old “caboose” has offered what many consider some of ...

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 ...

Resting in its case on top of a desk at the corporate headquarters of the company that makes Gibson guitars is a technologically head-spinning model that Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz describes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Shots of Kirk with his 1979 Gibson Flying V. As far as iconic ...

This is one in a series of stories about Kalamazoo's guitar-making heritage. Go here to read the full series. KALAMAZOO, MI-- The old but familiar-looking guitar with the gold in the middle and faded ...

Gibson is synonymous with innovation in guitar-making, as with the mold-breaking introduction of the ES-335 in 1958. It was a revolutionary electric guitar, combining the warmth and depth of a ...