![]() “So we didn’t want the contract any more – which was a mutual affair – and eventually we dropped his name on the guitars. It was the worst thing that ever happened to him in his life, I guess. And he got really down as far as popularity. We kind of drifted apart for a little while. “But I was a little upset with Les, of course, when they did this sort of thing, the divorce. “When we’d first brought out the Les Paul in ’52 and Les started to use it, he was very valuable in those days – he was on television, he was playing in Vegas, very much in the public eye, him and Mary and it was a fine thing as far as we were concerned. Now, all of a sudden what had been a very popular name and very strong for the sale of the guitars, well… now it was a detriment. The disc jockeys throughout the entire United States refused to play any of his music. It became a very nasty, personal divorce. “Probably eight years after we got started with the Les Paul guitars, must have been the early 60s, Les and Mary Ford started to get a divorce. Image: Don Paulsen / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Origin story Ted McCarty The people you’ll hear from are: Tony Iommi, guitarist with Black Sabbath (1968–2017) Johnny Marr, guitarist with The Smiths (1982–’87) Ted McCarty, president at Gibson (1950–’66) Tony McPhee, guitarist with The Groundhogs (1963–2015) Barry ‘The Fish’ Melton, guitarist with Country Joe & The Fish (1965–’70) Jimmy Page, guitarist with Led Zeppelin (1968–’80) Les Paul, guitarist (died 2009) and Derek Trucks, guitarist with The Allman Brothers Band (1999-2014) and the Tedeschi Trucks Band (2010–present).Įric Clapton, Cream. The voices here come from interviews conducted for my books about guitars. They found favour with countless players through the years, including Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Pete Townshend, Angus Young, Frank Zappa and many more. In the early 60s, Gibson expanded the SG line to include Standard, Custom, Junior, Special, and TV models, plus a few associated double-necks. ![]() Later confirmed as the SG, it was a radical departure in design, its body a modernistic mix of bevels and points and angles, offering excellent upper-fret access. Gibson intended the SG to be a replacement for the original Les Paul and at first, it too was called a Les Paul. ![]() This is the oral history of the SG, the remarkable solidbody electric that Gibson introduced at the very end of 1960.
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