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This feels like a really weird choice by Gibson. I’m a big fan of Mary Ford and I love seeing her legacy honored, but this is a weird way to do it.
You’re the company that would have built and shipped that guitar and you don’t even know?!
I have never seen a picture of the actual guitar this is supposedly replicating and apparently even Gibson can’t seem to find one! They don’t even know if it really existed.
Also 1958 was not exactly a great time in her life. She and Les were separated, her career was in shambles, and her alcoholism was getting worse. Probably not the time of her life she would choose to memorialize.
So instead of giving her a new model based on some mythical guitar nobody has ever even seen from when she was hitting rock bottom why not give her a new model based on something we all recognize, like one of her white SG Customs?
Or an earlier gold top with p90s and a trapeze
I imagine a conversation at Gibson that went something like this:
“Hey, we need a guitar for the new Mary Ford ad campaign, what do you have for us”
“Well, she was well known for white SG Customs, we could do a 3 pickup model like the old album covers”
“Sounds expensive, what else do you have?”
“How about we take those some of those goldtop ‘50s standards we already make and slap $5 worth of plastic parts on them?”
“Genius. Raise the price a couple hundred $ and get marketing to make up some story about a legend she might have had a guitar like this”
https://www.gibson.com/en-US/p/Electric-Guitar/Mary-Ford-Les-Paul-Standard/Goldtop
You’re the company that would have built and shipped that guitar and you don’t even know?!
I have never seen a picture of the actual guitar this is supposedly replicating and apparently even Gibson can’t seem to find one! They don’t even know if it really existed.
Also 1958 was not exactly a great time in her life. She and Les were separated, her career was in shambles, and her alcoholism was getting worse. Probably not the time of her life she would choose to memorialize.
So instead of giving her a new model based on some mythical guitar nobody has ever even seen from when she was hitting rock bottom why not give her a new model based on something we all recognize, like one of her white SG Customs?
Or an earlier gold top with p90s and a trapeze
I imagine a conversation at Gibson that went something like this:
“Hey, we need a guitar for the new Mary Ford ad campaign, what do you have for us”
“Well, she was well known for white SG Customs, we could do a 3 pickup model like the old album covers”
“Sounds expensive, what else do you have?”
“How about we take those some of those goldtop ‘50s standards we already make and slap $5 worth of plastic parts on them?”
“Genius. Raise the price a couple hundred $ and get marketing to make up some story about a legend she might have had a guitar like this”
https://www.gibson.com/en-US/p/Electric-Guitar/Mary-Ford-Les-Paul-Standard/Goldtop
