The Gambler

The Gibson company is known for making some of the best instuments in the market, yet they are pricy and unfortunately, here in MTY, very hard to find. Their trademark guitar, a solid body maple top over mahogany back has defined the sound of rock deities and of whole generations, they called it, The Les Paul in honor of musician Lester William Polfuss (born 1915). Back in 1958 the Gibson company introduced the ES-335, a double-cutaway, semi-hollow, thin-bodied electric guitar, the same year that they released the Flying V and Explorer. Though the V and Explorer attracted attention for their unusual body shapes, the ES-335 was actually a more radical innovation because it was the first commercially produced solid/hollowbody hybrid, featuring a solid block of wood inside of the body flanked by two hollow body wings. This Semihollow construction has been faved by many musicians, from B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Blink 182's Tom DeLonge (sounding grotesque to pronounce these names together in the same blog, even in the same year). Here are B.B. King's Lucille, whom I will post more about in the future, and Tom DeLonge's signature model.

Anyway, after a little historic background I give you the new Gibson Vegas Standard, a new semihollow body that well resembles the really hard to find and very expensive Triny Lopez model (played by Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl). Unlike most semihollows it features a tuning machines six-in-a-side headstock profile, more likely to be found on Strats and Teles. This is a mahogany back and sides axe with a maple top. '57 classic pickups. And a heavy mahogany neck, ebony fretboard with beautiful dimond shaped inlays. I show you the standard version with chrome hardware (which I like a lot more than gold), also available in a more fancy version the Vegas Roller, with gold hardware. I hope you like it. I Do.