During the 1960s, Gibson made several different versions of its Firebird electric guitar design as it vied to master the offset’s recipe, and a transitional build from the heart of that period is ...
Gibson is continuing its recent trend of dipping into its vast archive of more left-field builds as it announces the return ...
Enthusiasts of vintage electric guitars might well lay an egg at this news, because Gibson has brought the Platypus Firebird ...
In rock music, innovations take a long time. The first electric guitars that actually stayed in tune and worked well for stage performance were produced in the 1950s, and the basic design – fretboard, ...
Gibson’s Firebird electric solidbody guitars first appeared in 1963. Striking in appearance, they were perhaps the last in Gibson’s line of iconic and stylistically defining ‘rock’ guitars to arrive.
While we applaud anyone trying to push the electric guitar forwards, we seriously wonder if the Firebird X is the future of electric guitar, especially at this price. The distortion tones. Lack of a ...
Way back in 2007 Gibson rolled out its first “robot” guitar, featuring motorized tuners that could quickly tune up the instrument without much player intervention—and even switch between common ...