2024 Orlando Guitar Show
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The 2024 Orlando Guitar Show (Orlando International Guitar and Music Expo) is happening February 3rd and 4th…
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2023 Orlando Guitar Show
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The 2023 Orlando Guitar Show (Orlando International Guitar and Music Expo) is happening February 4th & 5th…
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Thats a wrap on the 2022 Orlando Guitar Show and what a show it was. I really enjoyed doing a video walk-thru with Luthier Nick Scout from…
Read More2022 Orlando Guitar Show Update
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2021 continued the wave of guitar enthusiasm boosted by the pandemic and vintage prices continue to climb as demand is stronger than ever.
The 2022 Orlando Guitar Show (Orlando International Guitar and Music Expo) is happening January 28, 29 & 30, 2022…
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/2020 was a year like no other. Without the ability to hold large gatherings in the era of the Covid-19 virus, we’ve suffered through with no live music concerts and worse yet, no guitar shows. Most all of the guitar shows that had been planned for 2020 were canceled to the dismay
Read More1955 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Comes Home After 30 Years
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The ad read Gibson Les Paul and Amplifier, $200. Of course in 1969, that was a lot of money, especially for a 14 year old kid (that’s $1,400 in 2019…
Read MoreLes Paul plays with Guitar Legends Billy Gibbons, Joe Walsh and Brian May→
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According to sources, Les Paul started holding Court around 1984 in the small basement club in New York until it closed in 1996…
Read More1958 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty Finds a Good Home
/The guitar story behind this beautiful 1958 Gibson Les Paul Custom is that it was purchased by Bob Marciante (Bob Marcy), an entertainer, guitarist drummer and mainstay performer in the Chicagoland area in 1958 from a friend who only had it a few months. Here’s where the story gets interesting...
Read MoreGibson Exits Bankruptcy - Experts & Dealers Comment on The New Gibson - Sammy Ash, Vic DaPra, Eliot Michael, Drew Berlin, Mercedes Girard & Ray Mauldin→
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We sought the opinions of some friends of Guitar Stories USA whom we greatly respect and who are in our opinion, not only some of the leading Gibson guitar experts, legendary vintage and new model guitar dealers, but have also had personal dealings with Gibson for decades.
They include:
Sammy Ash of Music Retailer Sam Ash Music
Vic DaPra, “Burst Believers” Author, Vintage Les Paul Expert & Gibson Dealer
Eliot Michael, Rumbleseat Music, Vintage Gibson Expert & Nashville Gibson Dealer
Drew Berlin, Vintage Gibson Dealer & Expert (Southern California)
Mercedes Girard, Guitars West, Vintage Guitar Expert and Dealer (Southern California)
Ray Mauldin, Grinning Elk Guitars & 2019 Atlanta Guitar Show Producer
The Guitar Legacy - Is it Shrinking?
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There's been a lot of discussion that the younger generation don't have much of an interest in electric guitars. I was recently on a Facebook discussion where there was a consensus by many that it's...
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According to sources, Les Paul started holding Court around 1984 in the small basement club in New York until it closed in 1996…