The forthcoming documentary film, “It Might Get Loud,” is generating considerable buzz among music fans and guitar players. First screened in May at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie officially premieres this September at the Toronto International Film Festival.
According to a press release, the movie “revolves around a singular day when Jimmy Page, the Edge, [...]

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 Gibson Acoustic’s guitar workshop in Bozeman, Montana, is known for crafting some of the finest instruments ever produced in the 120-plus-year history of this storied company, and for fans of great vintage-spec flat-tops the True Vintage series is the cream of the crop. Now Gibson is releasing an extremely limited edition of just 167 pieces [...]

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 If you have a Gibson Historic Les Paul guitar and always wanted it to be more correct like the original 1950’s models, Historic Makeovers can make that happen! What they do is take your Les Paul guitar and transform it into a highly accurate and detailed reproduction of an original. Some details include replacing the truss [...]

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 Attention all Gibson ES-335 fans! There is a new place on the web dedicated to the golden era of the Gibson thinline guitars 1958-1964.  The site www.es-335.net features specifications, production shipping totals and the history & construction of the Gibson thinline guitars from this era. Best of all there are exceptional photo galleries featuring the ES-330, [...]

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 Gibson USA’s new Shred-V Flying V-the Guitar of the Month for August 2008-takes the style and attitude of the fearsome Flying V a step further. Two EMG 85 pickups deliver high-ouput, screaming tone, perfect for aggressive hard rock and metal, and a new Kahler 2215K tremolo system allows stable tuning and dive bombs. The Shred-V [...]

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 Improving a legend isn’t easy, but it has happened. Introducing the 2008 Les Paul Standard from Gibson USA-an elegant revision of a true classic, with several upgrades and new features that make this new model the best Les Paul Standard ever produced.
Based on research from consumer feedback and a drive to uphold and enhance the [...]

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 It’s a guitar that would dwarf even basketball giants like Shaq or Yao Ming. But that doesn’t stop Ralph Ciociano of the tiny Guitar Shack in Port Jefferson, New York from occasionally dragging, lifting, and toting his humongous, hand-built replica of a Flying V down to Manhattan’s Times Square to boggle the minds of a [...]

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 Earlier this month the sale of Groove Tubes was officially sold to Fender Musical Instruments. This announcement was just made public by both companies. The service and products will remain unchanged under the new ownership by Fender. You can check out all the details on the Groove Tube homepage. One wonders what will the next acqusition [...]

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 The world’s largest pedalboard was finally unveiled last night during a pre-Summer NAMM gathering in downtown Nashville, TN. The pedalboard itself—which consisted of 142 different pedals, 13 loaded pedalboards, and a mountain of guitar cable—performed as expected, without any glitches or noise problems, before a crowd of approximately 300 invited industry professionals. Credit: Gibson.

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     “I got my Melody Maker in 1977,” the legendary Joan Jett says about the guitar she has made one of the most iconic instruments in rock and roll. “It was light and it sounded great. It was the guitar I had in the Runaways and then played on all my hits, like ‘I Love [...]

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