If buying a new guitar is like buying a new car then that would explain this one. Another Ibanez. Brand-loyalty. It must have been late 1979 when Manfred Brietzke and I started an acoustic guitar duo – later to become a trio via the inclusion of Ulli Fischer.   As is so often the…

  The Ibanez George Benson GB10 was my first ‘real good guitar’. According to the label it was made in 1979. I bought it towards the end of my first steady gig in early 1980 (of course I didn’t know the end was coming – or I wouldn’t have spent that much money). But that…

  There was a time, around age 21 or so, when I thought playing bass is easy. Plus, I really liked Jaco Pastorius’ playing. Well, one day this Ibanez fretless bass showed up in my favorite music store, Musicland in Albstadt, Germany. And it was very affordable. At the time I was already playing bass…