In the studio Sam Phillips used tape machines to create the famous “slap-back” delay we have all come to love. Scotty Moore wnated to be able to replicate the sound from Sun Studios at the live gigs with Elvis. Scotty Moore reunited with his famous Gibson ES-295 Seems the Gibson ES-295 he has is basically the same guitar as the one I just bought. Darrel talks about his guitars and amps in the video. Danny Gatton also owned and played a Gibson ES-295 even though he is considered a Telecaster master.ĭarrel Higham often plays a late 1990’s Gibson ES-295. The short time Scotty played his Gibson ES-295 forever associated this model. Scotty did later switch to even larger hollow body Gibson L5-CESN and then a Super 400-CESN later on. When Moore first saw that Gibson ES-295 in ’53, it was love at first sight, making the trade in 1953 to Ed Fitzpatrick, the president of the O.K. Scotty Moore played one of these in the early days with Elvis after trading in his blackguard Fender Telecaster. The ES-295 is a rockabilly legend, but quite great for early jazz, roots music, and early rock-n-roll. The one I purchased was made in 1997 and is a called the Gibson Custom Shop Historical model that came out of Gibson’s Custom Shop in Nashville. Later Gibson reintroduced them as Custom Shop models in 1994 and a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece, but has since discontinued them again a few years later around 2000.
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In 1990 gibson introduced a reissue in a gold finish with two P-90 pickups plus Bigsby calling it the Gibson ES-295 reissue, discontinued in 1993. Not many were made as the Gibson ES-295 guitars were gone by 1958. In 1957, Gibson replaced the 2 P90 pickups on the ES-295 with 2 gold plated humbuckers to blend with the gold finish. Gibson built only 1,770 ES-295s back then, so it was pretty rare. Gibson produced the ES-295 from 1952 until 59 (58 last production version but several made in 59 for a Summer show). Mary Ford played one while touring with Les Paul in the early 50s. It also featured a clear plastic pickguard, back-painted in cream and embossed with a gold floral design. It shared the same specifications as the ES-175, except it came in Gibson’s Bullion Gold and featured a combination trapeze bridge/tailpiece with strings looping over the bridge, rather than a floating bridge. The ES-295 was introduced in May 1952 as an upscale version of the ES-175. The original Gibson ES-295 resembling the Les Paul Goldtop with trapeze bridge. Gold means the best.’ Berlin said, ‘Gold it is.’” Berlin (former head of Chicago Musical Instrument Co., Gibson’s parent company) said, ‘Why do you want gold?’ Les said, ‘Gold means rich. Inspiration for production model of the ES-295 came once again from Les Paul when he requested they make him Gold guitar. Story told by Les Paul that sparked the Gibson ES-295 model was that in n 1951, he asked Gibson to spray one of its ES-175 models in gold lacquer for an ailing World War II veteran. The ES-175 was the first Gibson guitar to feature a “Florentine” cutaway.
It has long been considered the quintessential jazz guitar. The Gibson ES-175 has been in constant production since 1949. Obviously, this guitar has the Bigsby tailpiece, but originally the ES-295 had a trapeze bridge. Where most ES-175 models have a maple top and a mahogany back and sides. Whereas the ES-175 was only available in 1952 with a single P-90 pickup (humbuckers in later years), the ES-295 had two, covered in ivory-colored Royalite to harmonize with the gold lacquer body and gold-colored parts.The ES-295 is an all maple body. Beyond that, though, the similarities end. Both had a 16″ laminated maple archtop body of the ES-175 along with the 19-fret neck with double parallelogram inlays and the Florentine cutaway. The Gibson ES-295 is basically the same as a Gibson ES-175 with some important differences. Especially since it is over 20 years old. Otherwise, this guitar is in excellent condition. There is some finish checking on the back of the headstock and on the neck joint area. Came with the Gibson original hard shell case. The neck profile is a lot like my Gretsch guitars. Gold finish, split parallelogram inlays, and the Florentine cutaway oozes class and style. It doesn’t get much more gorgeous than the Gibson ES-295. 1997 Gibson ES-295 Historic Custom Shop Gold ’52 reissue Limited Edition.
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