Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
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TheLivingDead
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
That's pretty awesome right there.
That's pretty awesome right there.
ratherdashing
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Article with more detail: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ton-reunited-with-best-guitar-after-31-years/
Article with more detail: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ton-reunited-with-best-guitar-after-31-years/
gOgIver
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Mr. Frampton said he knew as soon as he picked the instrument up that it was the same 1954 Gibson Les Paul with customized pickups that he had played for a decade. It was an emotional moment, he said.
The neck is still straight, he said, but he must replace old pickups with new ones, made to the same specifications as the original coils.
Mr. Frampton said he knew as soon as he picked the instrument up that it was the same 1954 Gibson Les Paul with customized pickups that he had played for a decade. It was an emotional moment, he said.
The neck is still straight, he said, but he must replace old pickups with new ones, made to the same specifications as the original coils.
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
I wonder if I lost a guitar for 30 yrs, If I could tell it was mine when I held it? Probably not. Ive never played one guitar that much... He said it'll be number 1 again.. You'd think he'd be afraid to tour with it again..
Gotta give HUGE props for the folks who actually PAID to get it back for him.. Nowadays, I'd expect someone to try to sell it back to him for a fortune..
I wonder if I lost a guitar for 30 yrs, If I could tell it was mine when I held it? Probably not. Ive never played one guitar that much... He said it'll be number 1 again.. You'd think he'd be afraid to tour with it again..
Gotta give HUGE props for the folks who actually PAID to get it back for him.. Nowadays, I'd expect someone to try to sell it back to him for a fortune..
Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
I remember when Dime's DFH was stolen sometime in the 90s. He paid near enough to 2500 to get that beat-ass thing back.
I remember when Dime's DFH was stolen sometime in the 90s. He paid near enough to 2500 to get that beat-ass thing back.
Gearjoneser
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
That's awesome. I can't wait to see and hear it played again.
I think we may also hear some coverage about how Gibson decides to restore it to optimum playability. I wonder why they're changing the pickups? It seems like they'd just rewind them and install different magnets or something.
Peter and Seymour are good friends. I wish Seymour was handling that aspect.
That's awesome. I can't wait to see and hear it played again.
I think we may also hear some coverage about how Gibson decides to restore it to optimum playability. I wonder why they're changing the pickups? It seems like they'd just rewind them and install different magnets or something.
Peter and Seymour are good friends. I wish Seymour was handling that aspect.
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guitarrob
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Whoa, that would be an expensive guitar just based on it's age add in the history and the owner and you have a pricey axe.
Whoa, that would be an expensive guitar just based on it's age add in the history and the owner and you have a pricey axe.
muttznmongrelz
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Cool story. Hope they "unveil" the guitar once Gibson gets done w/it. You know a Limited Edition Model will come out reliced and all sooner or later.
I was lucky enough to see him at a small outdoor venue this summer on the Frampton Comes Alive Anniversary Tour. Very cool show and he covered a lot of classic as well as newer material. Well worth seeing if you are a Frampton Fan.
Cool story. Hope they "unveil" the guitar once Gibson gets done w/it. You know a Limited Edition Model will come out reliced and all sooner or later.
I was lucky enough to see him at a small outdoor venue this summer on the Frampton Comes Alive Anniversary Tour. Very cool show and he covered a lot of classic as well as newer material. Well worth seeing if you are a Frampton Fan.
Edgecrusher
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Sure but who cares. The guitar is one of a kind with its history. Not everything has to be 100% vintage correct.
Sure but who cares. The guitar is one of a kind with its history. Not everything has to be 100% vintage correct.
ItsaBass
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Not that serious at all. All it would have needed would have been to be routed for three humbuckers, for the top to be refinished or just touched up, and for a few bolt-on cosmetic changes to be made (pickup rings and such). Heck, if the routing was done super cleanly, it need not have even been refinished, since the HB rings would hide the edges.
FWIW, Gibson themselves did the mods (though maybe not the change to cream trim). If there is any modified antique guitar that actually doesn't take much of a hit in value, is 1) one that was factory modified by the original maker of the instrument, or 2) one that was owned by a famous person. This guitar is both. An extremely valuable instrument indeed. Hard to imagine it was being played in hotels and bars for the past 30 years. And the guy who had it sold it for only 5 grand too.
Not that serious at all. All it would have needed would have been to be routed for three humbuckers, for the top to be refinished or just touched up, and for a few bolt-on cosmetic changes to be made (pickup rings and such). Heck, if the routing was done super cleanly, it need not have even been refinished, since the HB rings would hide the edges.
FWIW, Gibson themselves did the mods (though maybe not the change to cream trim). If there is any modified antique guitar that actually doesn't take much of a hit in value, is 1) one that was factory modified by the original maker of the instrument, or 2) one that was owned by a famous person. This guitar is both. An extremely valuable instrument indeed. Hard to imagine it was being played in hotels and bars for the past 30 years. And the guy who had it sold it for only 5 grand too.
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EEF13
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
If you really want to read about the process and the updates on the guitar then you should check this out
http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/vintage-les-pauls/170645-framptons-54-custom-found.html
If you really want to read about the process and the updates on the guitar then you should check this out
http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/vintage-les-pauls/170645-framptons-54-custom-found.html
fretburner
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
And those tuners? Not stock are they?
And those tuners? Not stock are they?
ItsaBass
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Customs had the stop tailpiece and TOM bridge from their introduction (or a Bigsby as an option). Gold-tops had the trapeze first, and then the wraparound for a few years before they went to the bridge/tailpiece setup in late '55.
IMO the best LP feature set ever is on those early Customs with the black soapbars (one P90, one Alnico). You get the all mahogany body and the tricked-out Custom trim, but with single coils instead of humbuckers. Another case where they had it right from the beginning IMO. I'm eventually going to convert my '83 Custom to those specs (minus the top, of course). I have two cream P90's in it now, but eventually I will have it properly modified to look like one of the first Customs.
Customs had the stop tailpiece and TOM bridge from their introduction (or a Bigsby as an option). Gold-tops had the trapeze first, and then the wraparound for a few years before they went to the bridge/tailpiece setup in late '55.
IMO the best LP feature set ever is on those early Customs with the black soapbars (one P90, one Alnico). You get the all mahogany body and the tricked-out Custom trim, but with single coils instead of humbuckers. Another case where they had it right from the beginning IMO. I'm eventually going to convert my '83 Custom to those specs (minus the top, of course). I have two cream P90's in it now, but eventually I will have it properly modified to look like one of the first Customs.
guitfiddle
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Here's what the guy who initiated the search had to say...I copied this from his post on the My Les Paul Forum
I am the guy from the Dutch forum, how are you all doing ?
The Les Paul custom from Mariana was a 1957 and not a 1954.
Peter get the guitar around 1970 and at that time it was nothing more then a used secondhand Gibson. Mark Mariana thought it was from 1954, but in fact it was from 1957.
I personally emailed with mister Peter Frampton. My first question to him was . are you certain that the lost guitar was a 1954 Gibson ? Because we found a 1957 guitar. And he said yes it could be one from 1957.
In that time (1970) nobody bothered with dates.
If you look closely at the pictures from that time you can see that the last three inlays are different
Just as a 1957 one should be.
But wait a few weeks, and all will be clear
Here's what the guy who initiated the search had to say...I copied this from his post on the My Les Paul Forum
I am the guy from the Dutch forum, how are you all doing ?
The Les Paul custom from Mariana was a 1957 and not a 1954.
Peter get the guitar around 1970 and at that time it was nothing more then a used secondhand Gibson. Mark Mariana thought it was from 1954, but in fact it was from 1957.
I personally emailed with mister Peter Frampton. My first question to him was . are you certain that the lost guitar was a 1954 Gibson ? Because we found a 1957 guitar. And he said yes it could be one from 1957.
In that time (1970) nobody bothered with dates.
If you look closely at the pictures from that time you can see that the last three inlays are different
Just as a 1957 one should be.
But wait a few weeks, and all will be clear
VanDerchuck
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Re: Peter Frampton's LPC Found after 32 years
Anyone else feel like Mr. Frampton deserves a slap for putting it on a cargo plane to begin with, and honestly doesn't deserve to get it back?
Anyone else feel like Mr. Frampton deserves a slap for putting it on a cargo plane to begin with, and honestly doesn't deserve to get it back?
