The Gibson company's public struggle to find a way forward through potentially catastrophic financial woes could reach a definitive turning point over the next few months.
Gibson Brands, Inc. – makers of the iconic Gibson guitars played by Slash among many others – is “running out of time” to resolve serious debt issues that could shut it down.
Tony Martin, singer with Black Sabbath on five albums – Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, TYR, Cross Purposes and Forbidden – recently spoke to Gibson.com about his life in the music business. Well known for his interest in creating new sounds, Martin says he learned a lot from him mom’s Hoover: “The most famous of my musical explorations was harmonizing with my mother’s Hoover...
While the world of guitar rock, admittedly, is male-heavy, a number of female players have risen to the top over the years, proving women have just as much aptitude for the 6-string as their male colleagues. These women crushed instruments and eardrums in pursuit of a new way to make the guitar sing, scream, shout and move souls...
It is about time! Pink Floyd has been sitting on stuff that should have already been released, but if they did ten years ago would we all be as excited? Probably not! HA Not only will all 14 Pink Floyd studio albums get the remastered treatment, but plenty of live performances, demos and more will be released in deluxe editions of the band's classic albums...
Thirty years after Nikki Sixx began his career recording albums and becoming a fixture on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip with Mötley Crüe.
In this exclusive interview with Gibson.com, Sixx talks about what makes his new book so personal, spills details on the forthcoming album and explains why he “can’t really stand on a stage” without a Thunderbird in his hand...
Gibson.com is pleased to present “The Gibson Classic Interview,” where we open our archives and share with you interviews we’ve done over the years with some of the world’s biggest artists. And for Gibson, there has never been an artist bigger than Lester William Polsfuss, known to the world as Les Paul...
This story is bound to ignite a few disagreements. But either way the ax is cool, and so are the videos. It's a great guitar, and a great story from Gibson.
On paper, the Gibson Explorer looks pretty simple: mahogany body (after an initial run of Korina models in the late ’50s), 24...