Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Gibson Les Paul

Gibson Les Paul's History:

The Gibson Les Paul is considered to the the Holy Grail of rock. This guitar was developed during the early 1950's by Ted McCarty (1910-2001) and Les Paul (1915-2009). During the year 1950 the Gibson Guitar Cooperation president Ted McCarty hired Les Paul (which was a jazz musician at that time) to be his advisor on the Gibson vs Fender rivarly (which exists until today and will forever exist). Les Paul was encharged to design a inovating guitar which was able to compete with the Fender Telecaster (later there will be a review on the Fender Telecaster) which made people go wild for that guitar. Yes, it was a challenging thing to do but with Les Paul's incredible imagination they created the Gibson Les Paul which became rapidly more popular than the Fender Telecaster. After making the first Gibson Les Paul the Gibson Guitar Cooperation decided to make the Les Paul guitar a top class guitar (which would later be used for famous artists) so the Les Paul was the "perfect" guitar at that time. Now-a-days people still argue about which guitar is better the Gibson Les Paul or the Fender Stratocaster.

Gibson Les Paul Models:

Goldtop:Custom:
Standard:
Studio:
Robot:
Famous Musicians That Use the Gibson Les Paul:
  • Slash (Guns n' Roses / Velvet Revolver)
  • Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
  • Eric Clapton
  • The Edge (U2)
  • Ace Frehley (Kiss)
  • Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
  • Keith Richards (The Rolling Stones)
And many others...

Pictures taken from www.gibson.com

Monday, August 24, 2009

Introduction To Rock Music

Rock music is a genre of popular music which started existing since the 1960's. Rock music has its roots on early Rock & Roll, R&B (rythm and blues), Jazz and many others that were popular genres during the 1940's and 1950's.

Rock bands are made of a singer, electric guitars , a electric bass, a drums, and a piano. A regular band has 2 electric guitarists, one electric bassist, a drummer, and a pianist. The reason for 2 guitar players is that one will play the melody and the other will be the lead guitar which is encharged of doing solos and riffs (common parts of the music). The bassist, drummer, and pianist are encharged of the melody.

Rock has a various of subgenres which were created in the 1960's and 1970's. The most known subgenres are:
  • Jazz
  • Blues
  • Soft Rock
  • Heavy Metal
  • Punk Rock
  • Hard Rock

Introduction to The Rocker

The Rocker is a blog in which we analyze:

  1. Musics
  2. Instruments
  3. Brands (Gibson, Fender, Ibanez ...)
  4. Bands
  5. Everything related to Rock & Roll!

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