Pick a vintage (1952-60) Les Paul

Chris of Arabia

Chris of Arabia

Desert RATT
There are any number of notable vintage Les Pauls out there, usually in the hands of the great and the good. Given a choice, whose vintage LP would you like to lay your hands on? For me, it would be either Steve Hackett's 57 Goldtop, or Mark Knopfler's 58 Standard.

Your choice?
 
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The baddest Les Paul of them all: Neil Young's Old black:

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I could learn to live with practically any of 'em. The thing about the best of those old Golden Age guitars, is that they just play superbly for most styles, being the product of old world master luthiers, who are now pretty much gone. They just dont need to spec out with modern frets or anything like a newer instrument.
 
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I really don't much about who plays what year of Les Paul but, I would love to have a madly figured top 59 Les Paul!
 
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Hey TGWIF..whats that debate over whether the Reverend Billy Gibbons has the real worlds rarest guitar, and I forgot the model name . He claims to have one, but has never produced any documentation..
 
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Gotta agree - Pearly ANY day, and twice on Sunday. Amen!
 
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I'd want the best old guitar I've ever played... Back in 2004 or so, Dave's Guitar Shop had a 1956 LP that had been re-topped, re-sprayed, and refretted sometime in the 70s. They also claimed that the pickups were hybrids made from several PAFs and measured around 8K in the neck and a little hotter in the bridge. I don't know exactly what was done, but that guitar sounded better than any humbucker guitar I've ever heard, and it played great. They were asking $19,995 for it, and I'd have done it in a heartbeat if I'd had the money.
 
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I think the idea of playing this one would be so overwhelming, and purely just so amazing.
 
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Gilmour has a P90 TOM Goldtop that sounds "reasonably nice".
 
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