Which Guitar is the Best?
Most popular guitar used by the top 100 guitarists of the 60's and 70's It is generally accepted that the 60/70's were the best decades for guitar based music/bands. Although this may be debatable, I am going to use this as a starting point to find out which Guitar may be considered 'the best'. These were the years that gave us such great riffs as:- Purple Haze, You Really Got Me, I Feel Fine, Smoke On The Water, Paranoid, Roundabout, etc, etc. I have taken a list from Spinditty and found out the guitar most associated with each artist 56 GIBSON 23 FENDER (12 STRATS/11 TELES) 4 IBANEZ 2 GRETSCH 15 OTHER So, what is it about Gibsons? Orville Gibson (1856-1918) You could say that Gibson have been around a lot longer than most other guitar models, giving them an edge. Orville Gibson started making mandolins in 1898 and in 1902, the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. was in...