List of Gibson players Wikipedia. Les Paul onstage with his heavily customized Les Paul Recording model. This is an alphabetized list of musicians who have made notable use of Gibson Guitar models in live performances or studio recordings. Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of these instruments was especially significantthat is, if they are musicians with long careers who have a history of faithful Gibson use. Gibson model contributed significantly to the popularization of that particular instrument. The Gibson LG series of flattop guitars were developed as the natural evolution of the earlier LSeries. World War II changed many aspects of the guitar world. I created a new profile so that my login is correctly spelt. Is there something written that shows what the letters are of guitar serial numbersAJohnny A uses a Johnny A Signature model designed specifically for him by Gibson to the guitarists personal specifications. 1Jan Akkerman has used a Gibson L5, Les Paul Custom and a modified Les Paul Personal. The Custom is the guitar he is generally associated with. 2Duane Allman The Allman Brothers Band used a 1. Les Paul Goldtop with PAF pickups, a 1. Les Paul, a 1. 95. Les Paul and a 1. SG which he used for slide guitar. 3Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day uses several vintage 1. Les Paul Junior models. Gibson has also produced two Billie Joe Armstrong Signature Les Paul Junior models one double cutaway, and one single cutaway as well as a very limited run of signature acoustic guitars. 4Chet Atkins switched from Gretsch to Gibson in the mid 1. Country Gentleman and Tennessean model designs. USEFUL INFO Serial Numbers Dates Tunings Guitar Chords Serial Numbers Tech Info Fender American Guitar Serial. Gibson RBGranada Mastertone 95 843, the Earl Scruggs In the world of prewar Gibson banjos, there is no model more legendary than. Im a private guitar collector interested in vintage instruments by Gibson, Fender, Martin, Gretsch, Epiphone, National, Dobro, Rickenbacker made from 1920 to. Coordinates. Gibson Brands, Inc. formerly Gibson Guitar Corp. is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and consumer and professional. Atkins also helped to design several innovative acousticelectric models including the SST, the CE, and the C. E. C. Since his death, Gibson has discontinued all Chet Atkins models and Gretsch has resumed the manufacturing and distribution of the Chet Atkins line. citation neededBMartin Barre Jethro Tull has used numerous Gibson models over the course of his career including a sunburst ES 3. Les Paul Special and a 1. Les Paul Standard. 5Jeff Beck The Yardbirdssolo purchased his first Les Paul, a 1. The Yardbirds. Becks fascination with the guitar sprang as much from his interest in Les Paul, the man, as from his love of the guitar itself. Beck told an interviewer It had a deep powerful sound and you could use it to imitate just about anything violin, sax, cello, even a sitar. 6 Beck also used an oxblood coloured 1. Les Paul Standard, with PAF pickups, from 1. Blow by Blow album. Sam Bush performing with a Gibson Mandolin. Franny Beecher played a black 1. Les Paul Custom throughout his career with Bill Haley and the Comets in the 1. Anthony Duster Bennett British blues singer, harmonica player and musician played a 1. Les Paul Goldtop throughout his career that had been given to him in 1. Peter Green. After Bennetts death the guitar was given to musician Anthony Top Topham. 7Wayne Bennett Bobby Bland used a white Byrdland8George Benson Jazz guitarist, used his Gibson L5 in public until he entered into an endorsement deal with Ibanez. citation neededChuck Berry used an ES 3. T early in his career, later switching to ES 3. ES 3. 55s. 9Dickey Betts The Allman Brothers Band uses a variety of Gibson models including a 1. SG and a 1. 95. 7 Les Paul. citation neededMike Bloomfield The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Electric Flag During his tenure with the Butterfield Blues Band he used a 1. Gibson Les Paul, which he used for some of the East West sessions. In due course, according to biographers Jan Mark Wolkin and Bill Keenom, Bloomfield swapped that guitar for a 1. Les Paul Standard and 1. This was the guitar Bloomfield used as a member of the Electric Flag, and on the Super Session album and concerts. He later veered between the Les Paul and the Fender Telecaster, but Bloomfields use of the Les Paul, as did Keith Richards with the Rolling Stones and Eric Claptons with John Mayall influenced many others to use the model. Bloomfield eventually lost the guitar in Canada Wolkin and Keenoms biography revealed a club owner kept the guitar as partial compensation after Bloomfield cut short a round of appearances. Its whereabouts today are unknown. citation neededMarc Bolan T. Rex used Les Paul Standards, Customs and Flying Vs and a Japanese Hummingbird copy. His main Les Paul model was refinished in an opaque orange to resemble the Gretsch guitars played by his hero Eddie Cochran. 1. Mick Box Uriah Heep uses a Les Paul Custom. Also used a 1. 95. Les Paul Junior, a Flying V and a 1. SG with a Maestro tailpiece. citation neededClarence Gatemouth Brown used various Gibsons including ES 3. L5s. His main guitar was a late 6. Firebird. citation neededJack Bruce Creamsolo used several EB 3 basses during the late 1. Cream reunion concerts he used a 1. EB bass. 1. 1Buckethead real name Brian Carroll uses several Les Pauls custom made by Gibson which feature oversized bodies, 2. Di. Marzio pickups and his trademark kill switch. They are usually all white. He is also known to own a modified Les Paul custom in Alpine White with gold hardware. citation neededSam Bush, noted bluegrass mandolin player, plays and endorses the Gibson Sam Bush Signature model mandolin. citation neededCLarry Carlton favours a sunburst 1. ES 3. 35, also occasionally using a 1. Les Paul Special and a 1. L5. 1. 2 A Larry Carlton Signature model has been produced by Gibson for the man they call Mr 3. Maybelle Carter, matriarch of the Carter Family and one of the earliest country recording stars, played a 1. L 5 archtop almost exclusively. I consider this to be the most important single guitar in the entire history of country music said George Gruhn. 1. Larry Carlton and his Carlton burst 3. Charlie Christian used an ES 1. The model was Gibsons first archtop electric guitar and was, as described by author Tony Bacon, used with devastating effect by Christian throughout his short career. The blade style pickup installed on early ES 1. Charlie Christian pickup in honor of the legendary jazzman. 1. John Cipollina Quicksilver Messenger Service used two heavily customized SGs with bat shaped plastic embellishments cut from pickguard material, extensive bindings, older Les Paul pickups with the neck pickup mounted in reverse, Grover Imperial tuning machines, and mercury dimes glued to the tops of the volume and tone controls. He also added Bigsby B5 vibrato assemblies to both guitars. 1. Eric Clapton has used a variety of Gibsons throughout his career. The second electric guitar Clapton owned was a red 1. ES 3. 35 that he used with The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith and as a solo artist. 1. In 2. 00. 4 Clapton donated the guitar to an auction to benefit the Crossroads Centre, where it sold for 7. Gibson. 1. 8 In 1. Clapton bought a 1. Les Paul that he used while a member of John Mayall the Bluesbreakers and Cream. 1. This was the first of several 1. Les Pauls that Clapton has used, contributing significantly to these models popularity. 2. Clapton also owned a 1. Les Paul Custom that was refinished in deep cherry. He later gave this guitar to his friend George Harrison, who dubbed the guitar with the nickname Lucy. 2. In 1. 96. 7 Clapton acquired a 1. SG painted by the Dutch artists collectively known as The Fool he used this guitar on the Cream albums Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Fire. 2. Other models Clapton has used extensively include a Firebird I and a 1. Explorer that he used on his 4. Ocean Boulevard2. EC Was Here albums. Steve Clark Def Leppard Throughout his career, Clark used various Les Pauls,2. Les Paul XR 1 as his main instrument during his Pyromania years,2. Firebirds and EDS 1.