The Next Generation
GIBSON GENERATION G-00, G-45, G-WRITER EC & G-200 EC £899, £1,099, £1449 & £1,799
All four Generation instruments here have an open airiness with great definition and clarity
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Back in issue 453 we had a foretaste of Gibson’s Generation acoustic range in the form of the G-45 Studio and Standard models. We were impressed, too. Up until that point, the idea of owning an all-solid wood electro-acoustic guitar with Gibson on the headstock for around the £1k price point seemed unthinkable. And yet there they were – and they were made in Gibson’s prestigious Bozeman, Montana, facility where the company’s top range acoustics are produced.
Those models have now been stricken from Gibson’s catalogue, despite being only a couple of years into their existence, and a new batch of Generation acoustics has entered the limelight comprising the same basic build as their forerunners – Sitka/ walnut – and much of the same
