Music Man Guitar / Amp Advertisements, 1950s-1980s

Gibson Jazz Guitars
1950s-2000s, ES125, ES150, ES175, Jazz boxes
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Brand New Gibsons
guitar, bass, strings and accesories
www.musiciansfriend.com

Rare Fender basses
Coronado, Mustang Bass VI
from parts to complete instruments
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Gibson Electric Thinlines
1950s-2000s, ES330s, 335s, 345s, 355s
www.ebay.com

Guitar

Music Man Guitars Never Fear Music Man Is Here 1976	Music Man Stingray We Came To Play 1976	Music Man Stingray For The Music Man Who Hears The Difference 1976	Music Man Stingray For The Music Man Who Hears The Difference 1977
Music Man Sabre Introducing The All New Sabre Guitar 1978	Music Man Stingray Come To Where The Action Is 1979

Bass

Music Man Stingray At Last You Have A Choice 1976	Music Man Basses Never Fear Music Man Is Here 1976	Music Man Stingray For The Music Man Who Hears The Difference 1976	Music Man Stingray For The Music Man Who Hears The Difference 1977
Music Man Stingray Projection Percusion And Punch! 1977	Music Man Stingray When A Better Bass Was Made... Music Man Made It 1977	Music Man Stingray Come To Where The Action Is 1979	Music Man Sabre The All New Sabre Bass 1979
Music Man Stingray One good thing leads to another 1980

Amplifiers

Music Man 212HD-130 Black Magic? 1975	Music Man amplifiers Music Man Discovers Music Man 1976	Music Man amplifiers Never Fear Music Man Is Here 1976	Music Man amplifiers For The Music Man Who Hears The Difference 1976
Music Man amplifiers For The Music Man Who Hears The Difference 1977	Music Man amplifiers Projection Percusion And Punch! 1977	Music Man amplifiers Come To Where The Action Is 1979	Music Man 112 More Black Magic 1979

Guitar makers have advertised in music magazines such as Down Beat, Guitar Player and very many more. Some manufacturers advertised widely (Guild, Gibson, Fender) but many more didn't and adverts are few and far between. Here are some of my favourite ads out of the ones i've seen. You can browse through all the images from the category links above, or by manufacturer from the links below.

AMPS
Ampeg, Leslie, Marshall, Orange, Peavey, Sunn
GUITARS
Epiphone, Fender, G&L, Gibson, Gretsch, Guild, Hagstrom, Harmony, Martin, Music Man, Rickenbacker, Vox


1967 Epiphone Ad featuring a psychedelic fish playing an Epiphone Riviera	1967 Fender Ad - Full Colour Sound

1973 Fender Stratocaster add - The Worlds Favourite Flying Machine	1972 Gibson Ad featuring BB King - The Man And The Woman