The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.
I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.
I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.
My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
It is fun to smash guitars.
I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.