1998 gibson flying v limited edition

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Scan with your phone to get the Reverb app:. But if it weren't for his love, there's a good chance the Flying V may have languished in the pile of guitar history's epic fails. It's hard to imagine today, but the launch of the Flying V in was an utter flop. One of a trio of modernistic guitars with the Explorer and the prototype-only Moderne , with body shapes for the space age.

Seems there weren't that many space-ready guitarists out there at the time - set aside the challenges of playing it sitting down. Only 98 Flying Vs were produced in - 59, before the model came off the production line. There are some very lucky owners out there! Albert King was one of those lucky owners, born under a bad sign or not. He had a Flying V, a right-handed one, which, just like Jimi Hendrix after him, he played upside down.

He may have been playing the space-age guitar, but he was a bluesman's bluesman through and through. I spent a few happy hours listening again to his playing while pulling this page together - the lightness of touch, the use of space, the feel and electricity of his playing, an influence on blues and rock guitarists to this day.

There were times when I just stopped writing, and listened in awe yes, you wish. Discontinued in , it took another 7 years before Gibson dusted off the design, even if still with some caution - they produced only between and , trading the legendary korina wood of those 50s models for mahogany.

Which is the wood used on this V'98, with a finish to get as close as you can to the look of the korina original. Plays like a dream, with all the warmth and cut that a pair of ceramic pick-ups are going to give you. And, short of getting a second mortgage, one of the closest plays you'll get to one of those 50s Vs.