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Memphis Guitars were guitars produced during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They made an inexpensive copy of the Gibson Les Paul; the copy was the first electric guitar owned by Slash as a teenager. [1] The company ceased trading in the United States in 1989. [2]
ES Series guitars were built at Gibson's Memphis, Tennessee factory from 2000 until 2019. [2] After Gibson's change of ownership in 2019, the Memphis factory was closed and production was moved back to Nashville, Tennessee.
He led an expansion of the guitar line with new guitars such as the "Les Paul" guitar introduced in 1952, endorsed by Les Paul, a popular musician in the 1950s. The guitar was offered in Custom, Standard, Special, and Junior models. [26] In the mid-1950s, the Thinline series was produced, which included a line of thinner guitars like the Byrdland.
The Gibson ES-335 is a semi-hollow body semi-acoustic guitar introduced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation as part of its ES (Electric Spanish) series in 1958.It has a solid maple wood block running through the center of its body with hollow upper bouts and two violin-style f-holes cut into the top over the hollow chambers. [1]
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The "Presidential Series" solid-body guitars are listed on the Trump Guitars website for $1,500 along with an "American Eagle Series" of acoustic and electric guitars that retail for $1,250 and ...
Memphis studios and artists who weren't associated with the city's most famous music space also had hits. "Woolly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs was recorded at Sam Phillips' post-Sun ...
The guitars came with PAF-style Memphis Historic Spec (MHS) pickups and a rounded C-style neck shape. [2] Most of the ES-Les Pauls came with F holes. The guitar's neck was made of mahogany and the back and sides were laminated maple/poplar with a walnut stain. There is a mahogany block running through the body making the guitar semi-hollow.