Watch Vince Gill Take Reverb's Vintage Guitar Quiz
See how he does, and, of course, find out how many of these questions you can answer yourself!
A couple years back, the gang over at Reverb.com sat down with country music star (and ace guitarist) Vince Gill at the Songbirds Guitar Museum in Tennessee.
In fact, they didn't only sit down with him; they quizzed him. The topic of the quiz? Vintage guitars, of course.
They asked him about the wood used on an original Gibson J-200, the pickup introduced by Gretsch in 1958, Paul McCartney's Beatles-era Epiphone Texan (which still turns up at his live shows), the creator of the first PAF humbucker, the pickups on a Gibson ES-330 and more.
See how he does, and, of course, find out how many of these questions you can answer yourself!
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Damian is Editor-in-Chief of Guitar World magazine. In past lives, he was GW’s managing editor and online managing editor. He's written liner notes for major-label releases, including Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'The Complete Epic Recordings Collection' (Sony Legacy) and has interviewed everyone from Yngwie Malmsteen to Kevin Bacon (with a few memorable Eric Clapton chats thrown into the mix). Damian, a former member of Brooklyn's The Gas House Gorillas, was the sole guitarist in Mister Neutron, a trio that toured the U.S. and released three albums. He now plays in two NYC-area bands.
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