Phil Gajewski

Articles by: Phil Gajewski

Gibson Byrdland

A beginner’s guide to the Gibson Byrdland – the cult classic archtop that took flight after a request from two Nashville guitar aces

By Phil Gajewski published

Billy Byrd and Hank Garland were integral to the development of one of Gibson’s coolest ‘Thinline’ models – an “L-5, but with a thinner body and a bunch of other stuff” – and the rest is history

Ted Nugent playing his Byrdland live onstage in 1978

“I must admit, it looked and sounded phenomenal, but the poor girl was crushed to smithereens… I was totally heartbroken”: How Ted Nugent accidentally destroyed his first Gibson Byrdland

By Phil Gajewski published

An archtop jazz box was a strange choice for a young rocker like Nugent, but as he explains here, it was the making of him, and it was all about the tone