Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

* Gibson 1961 SG

Gibson renamed the guitar " Gibson SG ", which stands for " Solid Guitar ", and it also became one of the company's best sellers.

The original Gibson Les Paul-guitar design regained popularity when Eric Clapton began playing the instrument a few years later, although he also played an SG and an ES-335.

In the late 1960s, Townshend began playing Gibson SG models almost exclusively, specifically the Special models.

By 1970, Gibson changed the design of the SG Special which Townshend had been using previously, and thus he began using other guitars.

There are several Gibson Pete Townshend signature guitars, such as the Pete Townshend SG, the Pete Townshend J-200, and three different Pete Townshend Les Paul Deluxes.

These instruments include a few vintage and reissue Rickenbackers, the Gretsch 6120, an original 1952 Fender Telecaster, Gibson Custom Shop's artist limited edition reissues of Townshend's Les Paul DeLuxe models 1, 3 and 9 as well his signature SG Special reissue.

Gibson SG, 70's Guild D35

Bell currently plays several Gibson guitars live including an SG and an Explorer.

** The Fool ( guitar ), 1964 Gibson SG designed by The Fool for Eric Clapton

Ness was seen early in his career using Gibson SGs and SG Juniors but currently uses 70's Gibson Les Paul Deluxes ( a 1971 sunburst, a 1975 sunburst, a 1975 goldtop and a 1976 goldtop ).

The Gibson SG is a model of solid-bodied electric guitar that was introduced in 1961 by Gibson, and remains popular.

Gibson honored Les Paul's request, and the new model was renamed " SG ", which stood for ' Solid Guitar '.

The SG Standard features pearl trapezoid fretboard inlays, as well as fretboard binding and inlaid " Gibson " logo ; the SG Special omits these features, instead using cheaper white dot inlays and a silk-screened logo.

Over the years, Gibson has offered many variations of the SG, and continues to manufacture special editions, including models such as the Special and Faded Special, Supreme, Artist Signature SGs, Menace, and Gothic, as well as the premium-priced VOS reissues of the sixties SG Standard and Custom.

Gibson experimented with an SG that included the same Moog active electronics that had previously been used in another Gibson model, the RD Artist.

Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.

Early electric guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker ( first called Ro-Pat-In ) in 1932, Dobro in 1933, National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 1934, Vega, Epiphone ( Electrophone and Electar ), and Gibson in 1935 and many others by 1936.

After World War II the completely solid-body electric was popularized by Gibson in collaboration with Les Paul, and independently by Leo Fender of Fender Music.

Hollowbody electric guitars are quite common in jazz ; the Gibson ES-175 is a classic example.

Although Gibson was not the first commercial producer to make an electric guitar, the company made the first successfully-marketed electric guitar, the ES150 in 1936.

Improved electric guitars such as Gibson ’ s ES175 ( released in 1949 ), gave players a larger variety of tonal options.

The Gibson Les Paul, one of the world's most popular electric guitars, was named after the man who invented it.

Although Paul approached the Gibson Guitar Corporation with his idea of a solid body electric guitar, they showed no interest until Fender began marketing its Esquire which later had a second pick-up added and became known as the Telecaster.

During the initial months of their existence as a band, the electric guitars used both by Roky Erickson and Stacy Sutherland were Gibson ES-335s.

* Gibson Les Paul, electric guitar

* January 6 – The Gibson Guitar Corporation patents its Gibson Flying V electric guitar design.

Johnson is best known for playing stock Fender Stratocasters and Gibson ES-335 electric guitars through a triple amp setup that consists of Fender, Dumble and Marshall amplifiers.

In 2009, Diamond stated that he prefers Gibson and Martin acoustic guitars and confirmed that recently he had been playing Gibson electric guitars.

* Gibson Firebird, solid-body electric guitar from the early 1960s

Bolan, by now married to his girlfriend June Child ( a former secretary to the manager of another of his heroes, Syd Barrett ), bought a vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar ( featured on the cover of the album T. Rex ), wrote and recorded " Ride a White Swan " which was dominated by a rolling hand-clapping back-beat, Bolan's electric guitar and Finn's percussion, and shortened the group's name to T. Rex.

* Gibson Futura, an electric guitar

The Gibson EDS-1275 electric 12-string was used by jazz fusion guitarist John McLaughlin of Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Guns N ' Roses guitarist Slash, Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule and The Allman Brothers Band, Cory Stuteville of Year Of The Dragon, Alex Lifeson of Rush, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth, Jeff Buckley and System of a Down and Scars on Broadway guitarist Daron Malakian, Taylor Swift.

Although most Heritage guitars were, and continue to be, based on Gibson designs, a few of their early electric guitars were based on modified Stratocaster and Telecaster designs.

The foremost example of this style is the Gibson J-200, but like the dreadnought, most guitar manufacturers have at least one jumbo model.

* Gibson Corvus, a guitar series produced by Gibson in the ' 80s

Alvino Rey was an artist who took this instrument to a wide audience in a large orchestral setting and later developed the pedal steel guitar for Gibson.

The first successful magnetic pickup for a guitar was invented by George Beauchamp, and incorporated into the 1931 Ro-Pat-In ( later Rickenbacker ) " Frying Pan " lap steel ; other manufacturers, notably Gibson, soon began to install pickups in archtop models.

In the 1960s Japanese guitar makers started to mainly copy American guitar designs and Ibanez branded copies of Gibson, Fender and Rickenbacker models started to appear.

The Gibson L5, an acoustic archtop guitar which was first produced in 1923, was an early “ jazz ”- style guitar which was used by early jazz guitarists such as Eddie Lang.

When Numan was 15 years old, his father bought him a Gibson Les Paul guitar, which he regards as his most treasured possession.

In 1957, Baez bought her first Gibson acoustic guitar.

In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.

Dobro is a registered trademark now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar. 1928 Dobro style 37 tenor guitar from Lowell Levinger's collection

* Fender resonator guitar home page parallel to the Gibson home page above

* Gibson Explorer, a model of guitar also marked as X-plorer and Explorer Pro

He states that his favorite guitar is a 1956 Gibson Les Paul Junior he calls " Floyd ".

Throughout both his commercial and improvising careers his principal " working guitar " was a 1963 Gibson ES 175 model, serial number 120592.

He had constructed a special version of the Gibson L-5 archtop guitar featuring diminished dimensions of neck scale and body depth, befitting his own smaller stature.

Chet Atkins later wrote that his brother, home on a family visit, presented the younger Atkins with an expensive Gibson archtop guitar that had been given to Jim Atkins by Les Paul.