On this day in 1958 Gibson received patents for Flying V guitars.

Responding to slumping sales after the Fender Stratocaster release in 1954. Gibson president Ted McCarty called on his design team for a line of "modernist" guitars .

“I told them what I wanted and asked them to make me some sketches,” McCarty told Andre Duchossoir. “We chose the ones we liked, and then we called in (guitar foreman) Larry Allers and John Huis and asked if they could make them. You can design anything on paper, but building and producing it is a different matter.”

#GibsonGuitars #FlyingV

The Gibson Les Paul Junior is a brilliant example of the beauty of simplicity; of how the unadorned, bare essentials of an instrument can be powerful.

And that's why I haven't the slightest compunction about buying a cheap knockoff for 1/10th the price. Paying $1,600 for a rock 'n roll caveman club seems counter to the spirit of the whole thing.

#gibsonguitars #nongibsonguitars

Gibson Launches A Search for The Iconic “Marty McFly” Guitar From ‘Back to the Future’
#MusicNews #News #BacktotheFuture #GibsonGuitars #Music

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/gibson-searching-for-back-to-the-future-guitar-1236235897/

"Sie ist zum Rocken geboren!"

#SinCity #OHRENFEINDT #Roggenrohl #StPauli #Bride #Thunderbird #GibsonGuitars #TBird #76Thunderbird #Bass #BassistsOfMastodon #BadassBass #4Strings #ErnieBall
#BassplayersDoItDeeper #HugYourBassistDay

Ouch

I’m too old for this shit.

Shoveling, I mean. I felt okay when I first came back inside after shoveling, but now that a few hours have passed… Ouch town, population me, bro. Every inch of me is sore, and despite having two of the best nights sleep I’ve had in ages over the last two nights, I am completely exhausted.

I don’t know if I have the energy to do anything other than sit on the couch for the rest of the night. I think we were already planning on ordering out for dinner tonight. Maybe I’ll be able to crawl to the door to bring the delivery in.* I mean, really… that’s asking a lot.

It is a good thing I managed to put rhythm guitar tracks onto two RPM Challenge songs this morning before I shoveled. I don’t know if I will be able to do any more than that tonight, though I really need to. We’ll see how the pain goes. For now though, it’s just couch time. Much needed couch time, believe me.

Here’s a few guitar pictures to hold us over until next time.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316576981/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316806444/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316994390/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316805879/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54316805869/in/datetaken/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54315686237/in/datetaken/

*Obviously I exaggerate. I mean, it’s still laundry day after all.

#365 #365Challenge #365Project #exhaustion #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonday #gibsunday #Guitar #health #LesPaul #Music #Nikon #nikonZ5 #pain #photoADay #photoADayChallenge #photography #Recording #RpmChallenge #rpm2025 #shoveling #shovelingSnow #Sleep #Snow #snowShoveling #SongWriting #sore #soreness #Weather #winter #z5

I was today years old when I learned about this obscure bit of #Gibson #guitar #history. It makes sense that many industries had their Rosies.

https://sheshreds.com/the-kalamazoo-gals/

#GibsonGirl #gibsonguitars

Friday

It’s Friday. One week from today I am going to be writing about how I only have an eight hour work day standing between me and a full week’s vacation. I am already hyper focusing on it. Crazy.

I just watched the season two finale of Silo. It was very good. I sort of screwed things up though. The show is based on a series of books. A few weeks ago I got tired of waiting to see what was going to happen on the show so I started reading. I’m going to finish the third and final book probably this weekend. When the super confusing twist happened in today’s episode I knew what it was and I knew it was coming. I spoiled myself. I don’t care though because the books are good, the show is good, and the books and the show are just different enough that I can still feel engaged with both.

This week I also watched the season (series?) finale of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and I am down to the second season (series?) finale of The Alienist which I am enjoying a lot even though it’s creepy as hell. Fortunately season two of Severance came out today. I’ll watch that tonight before bed, I think. Silo is over, but I still have a Friday show to watch out for. That’s nice.

Last night I watched a video on the youtubes. Five Watt World’s Short History of the Les Paul Deluxe. My first “real” guitar was a Les Paul Deluxe. I didn’t learn how to figure out the date on a Les Paul until years later so I have no idea what year it was made. I think it was very late 70’s or very early 80’s. I bought it in 1988 at Russo’s Music in Lowell, MA. All of the knobs had cracked off of it and I never replaced them. I was a kid. I didn’t have the money or even the know how of how to get replacements that would fit. It also had a nasty gash in one of the frets, and I seem to remember that one of the inlays was coming unglued. I didn’t care. I loved that guitar. I adored that guitar.

On a Sunday night/Monday morning in November or December (pretty sure it was December) of 1990 it was stolen out of my car. That was pretty much the end of the world for me. I have never really recovered from the violation of it all. I bought my Les Paul Custom a short time later and that is still my number one guitar… but some days I really find myself missing that Deluxe. I would have loved to have taken it to a good shop and had all of the negatives fixed up. It would have been epic, mini-humbuckers and all.

Watching this video made me feel all the feels. Steve Hackett, Pete Townsend, and me. All of us, Les Paul Deluxe veterans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWhGc6jxaw

Okay. Time to stop farting around and get ready for work. Happy Friday, everyone. The weekend awaits.

#appleTv_ #dust #fiveWattWorld #Gibson #GibsonGuitars #GibsonLesPaul #gibsonLesPaulDeluxe #Guitar #LesPaul #lesPaulDeluxe #severance #shift #silo #skeletonCrew #StarWars #starWarsSkeletonCrew #Television #theAlienist #wool #YouTube

On this day in 1958 Gibson patents Flying V guitars.

Responding to slumping sales after the Fender Stratocaster release in 1954. Gibson president Ted McCarty called on his design team for a line of "modernist" guitars .

“I told them what I wanted and asked them to make me some sketches,” McCarty told Andre Duchossoir. “We chose the ones we liked, and then we called in (guitar foreman) Larry Allers and John Huis and asked if they could make them. You can design anything on paper, but building and producing it is a different matter.”

#GibsonGuitars #FlyingV

Trogly’s Guitar Show Documents My Guitar (Almost)

This is a recent photo of one of my guitars:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54217562374/in/dateposted/

Here’s a photo of me playing this guitar on stage with Lizardfish on July 2, 2016.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/27944530872/in/album-72157669507169580/

Here’s a crazy low-res pic of me playing the guitar with Break Even at some point between 2003 and 2005.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/16093998422/

Here’s another one for luck. Same bar but maybe a different date? No, probably the same date. If I had to guess it was August 1, 2003 at J Rags in Tewksbury, MA. Pretty sure that was the date. It was our first gig together.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/15907426420/in/photostream/

The guitar is a 1979 Gibson ES-335 Pro that I bought off eBay in 2000 for a smidge less than $800. It was a mess when I first got it. It has no finish on the back. It’s stamped a factory second. Most important, some previous owner was a heavy, heavy smoker and it was covered in cigarette grime and sludge. I managed to clean it (mostly) and I just fell in love with it.

A few minutes ago, the Trogly’s Guitar Show posted a video to youtube of a 1979 Gibson ES-335 Pro! My guitar! Well, not my guitar but my year, make, and model! Even the same color! Awesome! Trogly’s 335 Pro was a mess too, and all the greater for it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdKmIBc1eq0

#1979 #Gibson #gibsonEs335 #GibsonES335Pro #GibsonGuitars #Guitar #trogly #troglySGuitarShow #YouTube