Should I own a Les Paul?

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brunogio said:
Really? I believe you, but my statement is based on someone else's experience with a older Japanese Epi.
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I don't know about the japanese ones but the late 90s early 2000s korean epis are worse than the newer chinese ones.

Maybe the japanese ones are the best, I'm not sure, I've only owned korean and chinese made epis...
 
Re: Should I own a Les Paul?

brunogio said:
You need to pass through the gates of the Les Paul in order to be an accomplished player collector. Good move.
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+1. LPC with BB's...and he has to ask if he should own it? I don't see how you can expect anyone to take you seriously as a guitarist without an LP. It's a rite of passage. It's about tone, and nothing is like an LP.

If you can listen to the LP greats of the late 1960's (Page, Clapton, Green, Kirwan, Beck, Abrahams, Simmonds, Bloomfield, Barre, Grosvenor, etc), and guys playing them today like Moore and Bonamassa, and not be mesmerized by the powerful tones, it means you've been neutered. Should you own an LP? Do you have testosterone? There's your answer.
 
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Andrew Lamprecht said:
I don't know about the japanese ones but the late 90s early 2000s korean epis are worse than the newer chinese ones.

Maybe the japanese ones are the best, I'm not sure, I've only owned korean and chinese made epis...
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Yeah I've played a few Korean made ones and didn't dig them.
 
Re: Should I own a Les Paul?

What kind of question is that? The question should be "how many Les Pauls should I own?" God I love Les Pauls to death. If I could own my dream Les Paul it would be this one, nice and simple and not ridiculously expensive either:


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Les Paul standard gold top
 
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blueman335 said:
+1. LPC with BB's...and he has to ask if he should own it? I don't see how you can expect anyone to take you seriously as a guitarist without an LP. It's a rite of passage. It's about tone, and nothing is like an LP.

If you can listen to the LP greats of the late 1960's (Page, Clapton, Green, Kirwan, Beck, Abrahams, Simmonds, Bloomfield, Barre, Grosvenor, etc), and guys playing them today like Moore and Bonamassa, and not be mesmerized by the powerful tones, it means you've been neutered. Should you own an LP? Do you have testosterone? There's your answer.
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Well Page used Fenders in the studio to sell a lot of Les Pauls :naughty:
 
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UberMetalDood said:
What kind of question is that? The question should be "how many Les Pauls should I own?" God I love Les Pauls to death. If I could own my dream Les Paul it would be this one, nice and simple and not ridiculously expensive either:


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Les Paul standard gold top
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Same here!
 
Re: Should I own a Les Paul?

The major reasons not to plays Les Pauls are weight and upper fret access.

If you are generally talking Fender/bolt-on world against Gibson world you'll see a couple of more difference, noticeably that bolt-ons generally survive falls without cracks and tilted headstock mahogany guitars often do not. Plus on a bolt-on you can exchange the neck which opens up a lot of possibilities, from combining your favorite neck and favorite body to doing refrets by changing the neck to switching a guitar you like to a different nut width or neck profile.
 
Re: Should I own a Les Paul?

Everyone should work on owning a;

1. Les Paul (or SG. Lighter in weight and easier high neck access)
2. Stratocaster or Telecaster

If just one guitar is all one can afford;

1. Carvin DC-127.

It gives you the closest to all three sounds in one guitar.
 
Re: Should I own a Les Paul?

Being a Diamond Member of The Man Club, (I've expelled more testosterone than most of you will ever have) and having never owned a Les Paul.
I say buy it. If you don't like it you can always sell it and buy another Tele.
 
Re: Should I own a Les Paul?

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but the binding on the headstock looks pretty thick and the tuners do not appear to have the holes lined up. This lead me to look at some other features. When you get your guitar, use the link below as a guide just to make sure you did not get a fake Epi or screwed in your trade. I ended up getting a fake on eBay and had Gibson USA confirm when I sent them pictures. The fat binding on the headstock (and the same serial number from an article on fake Epi's a couple of years prior) tipped me off to look closer... Hope yours is not.

http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/epiphone-les-pauls/12286-fake-epiphone-thread.html

astrozombie said:
I can't remember the exact year of the guitar... i think it was late 90s. like... maybe 97.

it's a heavy *****!!! It felt much more alive than my friend's newer epiphone les paul custom. i think his is about 4 or 5 years old.

the tuners have been replaced with chrome gibson ones.

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uOpt said:
The major reasons not to plays Les Pauls are weight and upper fret access.

If you are generally talking Fender/bolt-on world against Gibson world you'll see a couple of more difference, noticeably that bolt-ons generally survive falls without cracks and tilted headstock mahogany guitars often do not. Plus on a bolt-on you can exchange the neck which opens up a lot of possibilities, from combining your favorite neck and favorite body to doing refrets by changing the neck to switching a guitar you like to a different nut width or neck profile.
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But if you want that rich LP depth & sustain, it comes with a fat body & a single cutaway neck. Start changing things and you change the tone too. I just saw a jazz trio last weekend, and the guitarist played a non-cutaway ES125, so he had 14 frets clear of the body and that's about all he could reach. His playing was amazing, and I'm sure that there's few guys on this forum that could play with his speed and dexterity. Neck access is nice, but you can get hung up on that (and 24 fret necks); owning a single cutaway guitar or two isn't a handicap to a good player. And he doesn't have to use it exclusively all night.

I don't understand the selling points of bolt-on necks: swapping them and surviving falls. I've been playing guitar for over 40 years and never dropped a guitar, had one fall over, or damaged a neck in any other way. To me, it's a non-issue unless you're particularly uncoordinated, careless, or regularly intoxicated. With a minimum of care, it will last longer than the owner. Of all the guitars I have and I've owned, I've never felt the urge to have a different neck on any of them.
 
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