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 ).

* Gibson SG, an electric guitar manufactured by Gibson Guitar Corporation

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.

This result is plotted along with the 8.6-mm observations of Gibson ( 1958 ) in figure 1, A.

* A " Jumbo " body style is bigger again than a Grand Auditorium but similarly proportioned, and is generally designed to provide a deeper tone, similar to a dreadnought ( the body style was designed by Gibson to compete with the dreadnought ) but with maximum resonant space for greater volume and sustain.

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

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.

" Cyberpunk is often set in urbanized, artificial landscapes, and " city lights, receding " was used by Gibson as one of the genre's first metaphor s for cyberspace.

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

American counterculture exponents like William S. Burroughs ( whose literary influence on Gibson and cyberpunk in general is widely acknowledged ) and Timothy Leary were among the first to extoll the potential of computers and computer networks for individual empowerment.

* Trish ( Lynda Gibson ) is the network's head of publicity in series 3.

Archtop guitars are steel-string instruments in which the top ( and often the back ) of the instrument are carved from a solid billet in a curved rather than a flat shape ; this violin-like construction is usually credited to the American Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).

Traditional tuner layout is " 3 + 3 " in which each side of the headstock has three tuners ( such as on Gibson Les Pauls ).

The Gibson Robot Guitar, released in 2007, is often mistaken as the first of this kind, but was preceded by the Transperformance system by at least 20 years.

* Roadsworth: Crossing the Line ( 2009 ) is a Canadian documentary about Montréal artist Peter Gibson and his controversial stencil art on public roads.

The Gallipoli Campaign is the subject of the 1981 movie Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson.

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

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

This new style is credited to mandolins designed and built by Orville Gibson, a Kalamazoo, Michigan luthier who founded the " Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Limited " in 1902.

Gibson mandolins evolved into two basic styles: the Florentine or F-style, which has a decorative scroll near the neck, two points on the lower body, and usually a scroll carved into the headstock ; and the A-style, which is pear shaped, has no points, and usually has a simpler headstock.

Generally, in the United States, Gibson F-hole F-5 mandolins and mandolins influenced by that design are strongly associated with bluegrass, while the A-style is associated other types of music, although it too is most often used for and associated with bluegrass.

Much of the development of the mandolin from Neapolitan bowl-back to the flat-back style ( actually, gently rounded and carved like a violin ) is attributable to Orville Gibson ( 1856 – 1918 ).

The tone of his books is generally more irreverent and less self-serious than that of previous cyberpunk novels, notably those of William Gibson.

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction " triple crown " — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.

Shadowrun is also influenced by the writings of William Gibson ( particularly Neuromancer ), who reacted as follows to its release.

Gibson has also released a second, self-tuning model called the Dark Fire.

All of the sisters were known for their beauty ; her sister Irene later married the artist Charles Dana Gibson and became a model for the Gibson girl.

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

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

These instruments were constantly being improved and modified over the years, and Paul continued to use them in his recordings long after the development of his eponymous Gibson model.

He was also seen playing a black Gibson Flying V with tremolo and a late 1960s model Olympic White Fender Stratocaster.

In 2011, Gibson Guitar Corporation issued a specification-correct model of his main Gibson Les Paul guitar as part of their Signature series.

* Epiphone Supernova – Gallagher's signature model combines features from Gallagher's most frequently used guitars over the years, including various Gibson and Epiphone semi acoustics.

Schon currently endorses Gibson guitars, and has a limited edition signature Les Paul model entitled the " Neal Schon Signature Model Custom Les Paul ", of which only 35 were made according to the Gibson Custom website, ( 80 according to Neal Schon's website.

Richard Harding Davis, a war correspondent and reputedly the model for the “ Gibson Man ,” was angered by the tabloid press, who he was adamant, had distorted the facts.

He remained under contract to Gibson, however, and he was photographed with the new model several times.

The SG's set neck is shallower than the Gibson Les Paul's, but features the traditional Gibson combination of two humbucker pickups and a Tune-o-matic bridge assembly ( or vibrato tailpiece, depending on the model ).

He has played several models of Gibson Les Pauls over time, including a " Goldtop " model with P90 pickups and a black ' 78 model.

* Gibson Futura ( early Explorer body prototype played by Davies on the Shindig TV show ) ( Note that this is in fact incorrect: he played his recently-acquired Gibson Flying V here, and there's no photographic evidence that Davies ever had a Futura model )