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 ...

Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images Count Henry "Coco" Montoya among those thrilled that the late John Mayall got his props ... including a trio of Gibson Les Paul–slingers: Eric Clapton, a pre ...

“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 ...

John Mayall, a pioneering Blues musician ... Carrying an early affinity for American jazz and Blues, Mayall taught himself to play the piano, guitar and harmonica, according to the Hall of Fame.

John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other superstars, has died. He was 90. A statement ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...