Talk:List of Gibson players

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[edit] Mike Ness

Mike Ness (front man of Social Distortion) seems to fit the criteria for the notable Gibson player list but he's not currently on it. Ness has had a pretty big impact on punk rock and it's well known that he plays a 1956 style Les Paul Goldtop. I'm not sure how citations work, but Ness plays the Les Paul Goldtop (with an Orange County sticker and Clay Smith Cams Woodpecker sticker) at all his shows

[edit] Steve Vai

I am removing Steve Vai from the list. He only owns one Gibson guitar [1], and he does not not play it regularly, nor has he designed any. --Blahm 02:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't know how to work this, but can somebody please add Neil Young to the list? He is one of the most innovative Les Paul players there is, and one of the greatest artists of our time.

[edit] Change discussion

In the interest of getting this article inline with the style of List of Telecaster players, I propose we rename it to List of Gibson players and start finding sources for each entry. If an entry does not have a citation that they were a notable Gibson player, we remove them until one can be found.

So, criteria for including guitarists on this list would be:

  • They made notable use of a Gibson guitar.
  • A reliable citation can be found proving that.

Thoughts? --Aguerriero (talk) 19:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Let's do it! Should a temporary sandbox be created to use for potential "add-ins" or "take-outs"? Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 19:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, good idea. Did you do that for the Telecaster article? How did it work? --Aguerriero (talk) 23:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Rohirok had "the com" on that page and he built it by trial/error-cut/paste back and forth from the articles talk page. My thoughts on the sandbox were to paste the entire article as-is to the sandbox. Split it(as time passes) between cited and uncited. Then, when a substantial cited list is built...simply paste the new list onto the main page inplace of the existing and put the uncited, but probable, players list onto the talk page with a prompt for editors to find a cite and move them to the main page when appropriate. A temp list still exists on the Tele page so it would work here too....I think. "Gibson Players" is quite ambiguous. Should the list be broken down further into specific models? Doing this would eliminate the POV notable lists from just about every model article out there(which is what PJM and I have been thinking about doing for a long long time). Thoughts? Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 12:45, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
What do you think about just going through the list in the article one by one and either adding a citation or moving the entry to the Talk page if a citation can't be found? That way seems a bit more transparent to people just passing by. I don't know, maybe it doesn't matter. I was thinking about breaking the article up into sections by model - so there would be a Les Paul section, alphabetical, an SG section, etc. If it gets too unwieldy, we can split it. --Aguerriero (talk) 15:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I think it can be maintained through the main article and talk page easily..and like you said...more accessible to the casual reader who might have that 1 little cite that no one else can find. And I like the idea of the seperate sections for separate models. Gibson has a bizillion models. Having a separate section section for each and every one could get cumbersome. But I don't want to put anyone's nose out of joint by lumping their favorite rare model into an "other" section either. Either way, I will be glad when my Bacon books arrive from back order. Because finding online cites is alomst impossible for some of the guitarists listed who are definitely Gibson notables. I am thinking of players like Jeff Beck who is so identified as a Strat user but, along with Keith Richards, was one of the first guitarists I ever saw with a Black Beauty. Anyways.....away we go! Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 20:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Added a ref(woohoo!) For now I quickly found a gear list to link to. Would prefer to find a nice quote about "notable Gibson use" for each entry (a la le list de Telecaster) but will start slow for now. Also atarted trimming the "list fat" and tried to add a bit of consistency to each entries wording. Since it's a list of Gibson players...its kind of redundant to add the "Gibson" name into each and every list entry. Wikilinking every model probably isn't required either since a Gibson link is at the bottom of the page(feel free to disagree with me on that) Came very close to adding {fact} tags at the end of every list entry as well but decided not to since "serial taggers" are jerks. Sorry...had to add that in :) . I only did the first few alpha-groups. Stopped at "H" today. Will try to continue later(if someone else doesn't pick up the torch) Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 03:14, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moving notable lists from individual model pages











[edit] Billie Joe Armstrong

It should be noted that he does not actually play his signature model, as they are just replicas of the real vintage juniors he plays.

It's pretty much the same for all Sig model artists and not really worth mentioning. If a production year citation could be found for the model he does play...that could be added in. Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 11:06, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
I know his vintage sunburst is 1956. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rootbeersoup (talk • contribs) 20:15, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Buck Dharma

"The Gibson SG was the guitar most seen in this axemaster's hands!" Is it just me or is that a bit POV? It's not quite encyclopaedic either.

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