Noel Gallagher to launch signature electric guitar with Gibson

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Noel Gallagher is set to launch his own electric guitar model in partnership with Gibson.The former Oasis musician teased a new signature version of his Gibson ES-355 on social media back in May, writing that it’d be arriving at some point in “August 2022…”.It came after Gallagher joined forces with the US-based instruments manufacturer to release the ‘Noel Gallagher J-150’ acoustic guitar last year.Today (August 23), the singer-songwriter shared an official image of himself holding his beloved ’60s Cherry Red Gibson in a large studio space.

In the caption, he confirmed that the special model would be launching next Tuesday (August 30).You can see that tweet below.Launching 30.08.2022#Gibson #GibsonCustom pic.twitter.com/sS1pYAF4am— Noel Gallagher (@NoelGallagher) August 23, 2022As Guitar.COM notes, the High Flying Birds frontman previously hailed the Gibson instrument in question as “the greatest guitar” he’s ever played.Speaking to Guitar World in 2015, Gallagher was asked whether he’d ever consider launching his own signature model. “I’ve been asked and I kinda can’t be fucking bothered, do you know what I mean?” he replied.“It’s a funny thing, designing guitars.

Because, let’s face it, somebody got it right in about 1956. What’s the point? You can do them in funky colours with funky switches and blah, blah, blah, this, that and the other.”He went on to say if he did decide to go down that route, that he’d make a guitar “exactly the same as the one I fucking play”.Gallagher continued: “My main guitar, my 355, is in no way unique.