Kudos to GOP TN Rep Marsha Blackburn - she will have the CEO of Gibson (no relation) Guitars next to her in the audience at tonight's speech. Blackburn is in the Capital Hill Songwriters Caucus....yes! I'll bet their meeting, ROCK! While some members of Congress will be tweeting and blogging from their offices, Blackburn will have EVIDENCE of the ONEROUS government regulations that are stifling US businesses sitting next to her.
Gibson Guitars has been raided by federal agents because some paperwork with regarding the fretboard wood was not properly completed. This is wood that they have been imported for decades and that JUST became ensnarled in some outdated regulations in India. Over 40 jobs are at stake in the US and TN..... OH! and these guitar players and their instruments!
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- Jimmy Nolen (The J.B.'s) used various Gibson models.[84]
- Ted Nugent is most closely associated with early 1960s Byrdland models in black, sunburst and natural, and Gibson has developed a Byrdland model named for him. More recently[when?], he has occasionally used a '59 sunburst Les Paul and an American-flag-motif Les Paul.[citation needed]
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- Mike Oldfield used an L6S around 1978, various Les Paul models and an SG Junior, which featured on many of his albums in the seventies and eighties.[85]
- Roy Orbison used an ES-335 and a Les Paul with a Bigsby tailpiece.
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- Jimmy Page (The Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin/solo) uses a 1959 Les Paul ("Number 1", acquired from Joe Walsh), a 1959 Les Paul ("Number 2"[86]), a 1973 Les Paul, an EDS-1275, a 1977 RD Artist, an ES5 Switchmaster, a Goldtop Premium Les Paul and a 1991 Custom Shop Les Paul (built to be an exact replica of "Number 1" and re-nicknamed "Number 3"). Page also owned a modified 1960 Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty" with a Bigsby tailpiece and a 3-pickup configuration.[87] This guitar was stolen in 1970 and never recovered.[88] For acoustics Page used a Hummingbird, a J-200 and an A-2 mandolin. Gibson has released a Jimmy Page Signature model Les Paul replicating the features of "Number 2".[89][90][91] Page used an EDS-1275double neck guitar during his live performances of Stairway to Heaven, The Rain Song and The Song Remains the Same.
- Joe Pass used a sunburst ES-175;[92] Epiphone currently produces a Joe Pass signature Emperor model.[93]
- Les Paul helped design the guitar named after him, and used a custom model.[94]
- Joe Perry (Aerosmith) has used many Gibson models over the years, including ES-335s, Les Pauls, Flying Vs, and Firebirds; has signature Gibson[95] and Epiphone Les Paul models nicknamed "Boneyard".[96]
- Carl Perkins - "the King of Rockabilly" - used, at various points in his career, a Les Paul Goldtop, an L5 and an SG.
- Eddie Phillips (The Creation), used a Gibson ES-335, also with a violin bow in the mid 1960s.[97]
- Andy Powell (Wishbone Ash) has used a Flying V throughout his entire career.
- Elvis Presley appeared frequently in concert and films playing a 1956 J-200N, which he had inlaid with his name in 1960.[98]
- John Prine uses a J-200.
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- Mick Ralphs (Bad Company/Mott the Hoople) used a Les Paul Junior, a Firebird and a Les Paul during his Mott the Hoople tenure; and a Les Paul Standard and a Flying V during his years with Bad Company. Ralphs currently uses Les Paul Custom Shop '58 & '59 Re-issue models.[citation needed]
- Jimmy Raney used an ES-150 with "Charlie Christian" bar pickup for most of his career.[citation needed]
- Randy Rhoads (Quiet Riot/Ozzy Osbourne) used an off-white Les Paul Custom.[citation needed]
- Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones) has used a variety of Gibsons throughout his career; he's favoured Les Pauls and ES models, but has also occasionally been seen with assorted other models, including Firebirds, a Flying V, an SG, an L6S and a Melody Maker. In 1964 Richards got a 1959 sunburst Les Paul with a Bigsby tailpiece;[99] the guitar was the first "star-owned" Les Paul in Britain and served as one of Richards' main instruments through 1966.[19][100] He later sold the guitar to future Rolling Stones bandmate Mick Taylor.[101] In the mid-60s Richards acquired a 1953 Les Paul Goldtop[102] and the first of a series of 1957 Les Paul Customs.[103] One of the latter, hand-painted with psychedelic patterns, would be one of his main stage and studio guitars from 1968 through the end of the Rolling Stones' 1970 European tour.[104] Throughout the 1970s he continued to use various Gibson models on stage and in music videos. Among these were a second 1959 sunburst Les Paul, a 1954 Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty"[105] and a cherry red 1958 Les Paul Junior,[106] which he replaced in 1979 with a 1959 TV-yellow Les Paul Junior that he has used regularly on stage ever since. Since 1997 an ebony ES-355 has been among his favourite stage guitars, along with a white ES-345 that he unveiled in 2006.[107][108] In rehearsal and studio photos and footage he's frequently seen with an ES-350 and ES-175D.[109][110][111] Hummingbirds have been among his preferred acoustic models since 1965.
- Lee Ritenour - noted for playing an L-5, a red ES-335, and his own signature Lee Ritenour Model archtop.
- Howard Roberts - used several Gibson models over the course of his career including: an ES-175, an L-10[112] and a heavily modified ES-150 simply known as "The Black Guitar".[113] Gibson produces a Howard Roberts Fusion III signature model, which is a variation of an ES-165.
- Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy/Motörhead) has used a Les Paul throughout his entire career.[citation needed]
- Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes) uses several different Gibson models, including a 1968 Les Paul Goldtop, a 1964 ES-335, a Customshop Flametop Les Paul, vintage SGs and double-cut Les Paul Specials, and a Dove.[114]
- Mick Ronson (David Bowie) used a Les Paul Custom with the finish stripped for his guitar work on Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, among others.
- Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd) uses Les Pauls and SGs. Previously had a signature model Les Paul and SG released by Gibson.
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- Carlos Santana used an SG Special onstage at Woodstock and appeared in advertisements for the L-6S in the 1970s.[115] Santana has also used a sunburst Les Paul Custom.
- Michael Schenker (Scorpions/UFO/Michael Schenker Group) used four different 1970s Flying V models. Number 1 was a modified 1975 model; Numbers 2 and 3 were 1979 block-inlay Flying Vs; and Number 4 was a mid-70s white Flying V. Numbers 1, 2 and 3 had Schenker's trademark "half black/half white" paint scheme.[citation needed]
- Rudolf Schenker (Scorpions) uses various Flying V models dating from 1958-2001. He uses three 1958 original Flying Vs, three 1967-1969 Flying Vs, two 1971 Medallions (one was repainted black & white), a 1975 natural-finish Flying V, three 1983 replicas of the 1958 originals, four 1980 models and two 1984 Rudolf Schenker Signature models. Schenker has over 70 vintage and collectible Flying Vs along with several Custom Shop limited editions including a doubleneck Flying V.[116]
- Tom Scholz (Boston) uses a 1968 Les Paul Goldtop with a DiMarzio SuperDistorion pickup in the bridge.
- Neal Schon (Journey) uses a heavily modified Les Paul, including a Floyd Rose locking tremolo, custom electronics and sustainer unit. Gibson produces a signature model of Schon's guitar.
- Earl Scruggs (one of the original Bill Monroe Blue Grass Boys) is noted for inventing a unique banjo style (now referred to as Scruggs style) that has become one of the defining characteristics of bluegrass music. Scruggs' use of a flathead Gibson Mastertone Granada has made that model the standard for bluegrass players.[117] An inductee into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Bluegrass Hall of Honor, Gibson produces a signature model banjo, simply titled "The Earl", to honor Scruggs' monumental career achievements.[118]
- Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe/Sixx A.M.) has used a number of Thunderbird basses throughout his career. Between 2000 and 2003 Gibson manufactured a Sixx signature bass, the 'Blackbird'.[119]
- Slash (Guns N' Roses/Slash's Snakepit/Velvet Revolver/Slash's Blues Ball) uses many different Les Paul models including his own custom shop Les Paul model. He has also used an EDS-1275. In addition to his custom shop Les Paul, Gibson has manufactured two other Slash Les Pauls.[120]
- Johnny Smith was a Gibson endorsee from 1961 to 1989, during which time Gibson sold the Johnny Smith model.[121] Smith switched to Heritage in 1989. Gibson continues to produce the design as the LeGrande.
- Chris Spedding, a top British session guitarist of the 1970s is well-known for playing a Flying V.
- Bill Spooner (The Tubes) used a Flying V, an Explorer, a Les Paul, an SG and a 1959 Melody Maker.
- Paul Stanley (Kiss) used a Flying V, an Explorer, a Firebird I, an SG, and an L6S.
- Hubert Sumlin used a 1956 Les Paul Goldtop for many years. He currently uses various Les Pauls and ES-335s.[122]
- John Sykes (Thin Lizzy/Whitesnake/Blue Murder) uses a 1978 Les Paul Custom. Gibson has released a Custom Shop version of this guitar.
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