Watch Lonnie Mack, one of the original Flying V masters, trade licks with Tele titans Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan

(from left) Albert Collins, Lonnie Mack and Roy Buchanan perform onstage at Carnegie Hall in New York City on December 6, 1985

To call Lonnie Mack one of the first masters of the iconic Gibson Flying V electric guitar is in no way hyperbole.  

Mack's most beloved V was a '58 model known as "Number 7," so named because it was the seventh V to ever roll out of Gibson's factory, then in Kalamazoo, Michigan.