I had never seen a Gibson 325. Eddie Prather brought his 1972 prototype to us.

We are used to the more common 335, but the 335 is a semi-hollow body guitar while the 325 is is fully hollow. The 335 has standard humbuckers. The 325 has Firebird mini-humbuckers. They were made in walnut and cherry finishes, but Eddie’s prototype was white. Most had only one F-hole, but a few like the one we saw had two F-holes. So this rare Gibson 325 is very collectible.

Since “Every Guitar Has A Story,” I thought I would tell the best 1972 Gibson 325 story I could find. Caleb Followill, the frontman for Kings Of Leon, began playing his on stage in 2002. In 2009, he lost his temper over an “unsolvable” sound problem and smashed it during his performance at the T in The Park Festival.  Experiencing immediate regret, he asked the audience to bring the pieces back on stage. The Gibson Repair & Restoration department made it whole again.

C’mon, that’s a really good story.

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