page_title: Gibson S-1
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Gibson S-1 / History
caption_attribution_description: Angel Olsen @ The Sinclair (Cambridge, MA)
context_page_description: The Gibson S-1 is a solid bodied electric guitar, made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Notable players include Carlos Santana, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, and Angel Olsen. Only 3,089 of them were sold before the model was discontinued in 1980.
context_section_description: The S-1 was introduced as part of Gibson's attempt to break into the single-coil bolt-on neck guitar market, which was then dominated by Fender. It began production in mid-1974, and debuted in 1975 with endorsements from Carlos Santana as well as Rolling Stones guitarists Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards. However, the nontraditional construction and Fender-like characteristics led to disappointing sales, as they previously had with the similar Gibson Marauder. As a result, both the Marauder and the S-1 were discontinued in early 1980.
  The S-1 enjoys an afterlife as a vintage guitar. Its main exponent as of 2020 is Angel Olsen, who gravitated towards the instrument for its geminiical tonal profile.
caption: Angel Olsen playing her 1979 Gibson S-1
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