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Been playing in bands and covering Stones tunes since 1965. Charlie’s sense of rhythm was his own. I’ve listened to innumerable recordings of my cover bands doing Stones and it’s always the drums that don’t quite cut it. Great drummers, but Charlie’s deceptively simple rhythms and fills turn out...

It’s been a while since I posted anything. Sorry to be away so long. But tonight I want to share some thoughts. Might be the wrong area, but since The Other Gibsons is where I live, I’ll do it here. I changed the strings tonight on the guitar in my avatar. It’s a blonde 59 335. Oh man, what a...

Good evening all my fellow Other Gibson lovers. Happy holidays to you and yours. ‘Tis the season. Be good to all and give something to the charity of your choice.

Greetings all, This month we bring you a great guitar and a great story of the find, the hunt, and the great outcome. It involves several LPFers and a worldwide search. First, a shot of this beautiful guitar as it looks today... And now, the story from Michael Minnis, the current owner...

This is the second installment of the Other Gibson of the Month. This one for December. Fellow forum member and good friend Michael Minnis recently started a thread on "first rack" 1959 ES-345s, which got me to thinking about my own 1959 blonde 345. Michael's thread was about a couple of...

This is the inaugural post of the Other Gibson of the Month. We'll call this one November even though it is actually October 31. Happy Halloween all. So since Charlie Daughtry asked me to do this feature a few weeks ago I have had many requests from members for guitars to be the first one. Ding...

How about some Gibson mudbucket? Again, in the spirit of the Super 400 thread, let's get back to some vintage... 54, 59, 59, 59

Rant on. Sorry if this pisses anyone off, but the thread rules say "The ES Series, Carved Tops, Explorers, Flying Vs, Firebirds, Futuras, Acoustics, SGs and Epiphones that were made in the Gibson factory [c. 1958-1968]" While I am not the forum police, I must say that I have visited this place...

In the spirit of the Super 400 thread, let's show some L5 love... 1957 Thin body L5

Charlie Gelber (OKGuitars) shares this beautiful blonde 1960 ES-345 with us. Very, very early 60, like the first two weeks most likely. Thanks Charlie. More pics of this beauty here. Ans while I'm at it... there is something about these old blonde 345s that just makes my knees weak. Here...

We now have 4 1959 Cherry 345s on the site. This one, A31413, comes from Boy in the Netherlands. More pictures here. The other 3 are A30993, A31022 and A31412.

The bad news... The other day at a jam session, my beloved blonde 59 335 took a dive. Popped right off the strap, fell face first on to a hardwood floor, bounced once, by which time I was down there with it, caught it before it hit the floor a second time, heart racing and adrenaline pumping...

Thanks to MikeG for sharing this spectacular example of a 1961 ES-355. Beautiful guitar. More pictures of this beauty here.

Forum member RAB was kind enough to share pictures of his recently acquired 1962 Cherry 335 in really clean condition. More pictures here. And forum member skilback shared the photos of his cool 1962 ES-330 with the heel stinger that he showed in this thread. More pictures here. Thanks...

Added a couple guitars today to the Golden Era site. Courtesy of LPF members Dire Wolf and Andreja Marovic. Thanks guys... First up is Andreja's 1964 ES-335 TDC. A beauty with great mojo. More pics here. Next up is the lefty conversion 1960 ES-345 from Dire Wolf that was discussed in an...