My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
Gibson ES 125 was a real instrument, this was in 1956. I started learning; I had a vision of a sound.
My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.
My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.
51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.
My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.
During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
I was reading an article with Stevie Ray Vaughan a long time ago, and the number '1959' stuck out to me for some reason. So I started searching those out as the band got more popular and I could actually afford one. And I found this one in Los Angeles. That's what introduced me to the whole world of 1959s.
