Latest about Gibson Les Paul Junior
“The worst condition I’ve ever seen”: A lost Gibson Les Paul Junior from the 1950s has been found in a near-unsalvageable state – and it could be a first-year model
Musician and YouTuber Matthew Scott plans to try and restore the battered instrument to its former glory. But, as his latest video shows, he's got his work cut out
Billie Joe Armstrong set to sell rare prototype Gibson guitars and tour-used gear in new Green Day Reverb Shop – and one of them will cost you nothing
Over 100 pieces of studio-used and stage-played gear – including the Gretsch from the Back in the USA music video – are going up for sale… and one lucky fan can win a one-of-a-kind Les Paul Junior
Types of guitar pickups explained: learn the difference between single coils, humbuckers, P-90s and active designs
If the wood is the soul of the electric guitar, the pickups are the brains of the operation. We walk through the most common pickup styles and what they mean for electric guitar tone
Gibson Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior review
The Green Day leader gets a new signature in typical showman style, with a fresh pickup design that dates back to the late ’50s
Dirty Honey’s John Notto on Les Pauls: “There’s such a great sound and great look that you put up with their charmingly difficult attributes”
A hard-riffing, Marshall-diming rock-and-roller, Notto swears that all the Gibson Les Paul's idiosyncrasies are worth it for that sweet, sweet tone
The evolution of the Gibson Melody Maker – the original student electric guitar
Gibson’s “greatest value ever” electric solidbodies appeared in an array of designs. Here we trace the birth and development of one of the original budget electrics
The rise of the Gibson Les Paul/SG Standard
How the timeless rock machine found a user base that numbered some of the world's greatest players, and became a mainstay of the Gibson catalog
The evolution of the Les Paul: how Gibson’s single-cut design developed from 1952 to 1978
We chart the key changes the Les Paul and its variants went through in its seminal early years
