Late-60s gibson les paul custom

With a raft of recent high-spec reissue launches, is Epiphone now the home of affordable ‘vintage’ Gibsons? On paper, yes. But what about in the flesh?

YOU COULDN’T MAKE it up. Take a trip to 1960, and sit at a table in Kalamazoo, Michigan. You work for Gibson and you’re looking at — or at least talking about — what will turn out to be the Holy Grail

Five Stratocasters, all sunbursts and all different – so what is the best vintage if you’re craving a classic?

1960 Gibson ES-335

Epiphone Flying V

Blackberry Smoke’s guitarist reveals his greatest guitar triumphs, the pitfalls and blessings of his Les Paul Junior addiction, and his outright disdain of “bad amps”