Born in Macclesfield, England, in 1933, John Mayall began playing the guitar at an early age ... It also pioneered the now-iconic combo of running a Gibson Les Paul through a cranked Marshall ...

John Mayall, who died July 22 ... You’ve been playing a Gibson Les Paul. Is that your favorite guitar? Well, no. I didn’t choose it. The guitar I had before that was a Fender, and it went ...

Credit: Frans Schellekens/Redferns On 22 July, blues legend and bandleader John Mayall died at ... telling Guitar World in 2020 that his sunburst Gibson ES-125 was “the only guitar I take ...

For Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, there is one electric guitar that stands above the rest in his arsenal for the metal band’s ...

“Some key changes occurred at Gibson through 1960, so the elusive detail of precisely when the guitar was built leaves us relying just as much on the recordings themselves as anything ...

“I was trying to emulate the sharp, thin sound that Freddie King got out of his Gibson ... John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers…” “It’s a real bow with synthetic hair on two sides and it’s capable of doing ...

His band, John ... Mayall once said, “The only reason I was born in Macclesfield was because my father was a drinker, and that’s where his favorite pub was.” His father also played guitar ...

That’s how the multi-instrumentalist John Mayall, one of the chief ... His father made a hobby out of jazz guitar and, the young Mayall, at age 12, had likewise begun to play the instrument ...

LONDON — John ... Mayall once said, “The only reason I was born in Macclesfield was because my father was a drinker, and that’s where his favorite pub was.” His father also played guitar ...

“I had this friend in London, John Mayall of the Bluesbreakers, who used to play me a lot of records late at night,” the Beatles’ Paul McCartney recalled to Guitar Player magazine in 1990.

He was 90. A statement on Mayall's Instagram page announced his death Tuesday, saying the musician died Monday at his home in California. “Health issues that forced John to end his epic touring ...