The Search
- Mark Valentine
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
Every Guitar Has A Story is coming up on it’s one year anniversary. We have seen thousands of guitars as we visit guitar shows. We have nearly 100 interviews on tape. We have seen the first electric guitar to be marketed. We have seen rare guitars, old guitars, custom guitars including basses. We have heard some great stories that bring life to the instruments. Almost all have been chance meetings at guitar shows.
We have yet to see the iconic Gibson EDS-1275.
Gibson started producing them in 1963 and they are still being made. We have all heard those double-necks on our favorite classic recordings. John McLaughlin to Jimmy Page made it cool.
The Gibson double-necks didn’t just pop out full formed. From 1958 to 1961, they were hollow bodies with two 6-string necks. One neck was a short-scale tuned to a higher octave. From 1962 to 1967, they had solid bodies. One model had a 4-string bass and a 6-string guitar neck. That was the EBS-1250. It even had a built-in effect. That double-neck was produced from 1962 to 1968 and again from 1977 to 1978.
They kept tinkering. In 1963, the solid-body EDS-1275 was designed, resembling the SG. That is the one we all know. John MacLaughlin played it in the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Jimmy Page elevated it to icon status on Stairway To Heaven.
Keep going. Alex Lifeson of Rush played it on Xanadu.
Tommy Shaw of Styx. Don Felder of The Eagles burned the sound into our collective memories on Hotel California. That one can be seen at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
When you see us coming to a guitar show near you, please make my wish come true. Bring your Gibson EDS-1275 and tell us the story.
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