Slash's 1987 Standards?

[Wolfshead]

Does anyone have good, hi-res pics of Slash's 1987 (or 88 as he called them in a video I watched yesterday) Les Paul Standards? They were plain top ones, cherry sunburst, and "seconds". For a few weeks I've been GASsing over the recent Slash models, thinking I would like to get a Victoria goldtop or the Appetite burst one, and then I was looking at the videos from the period - Sweet Child O' Mine and Paradise City being the two that made me fall in love with the band back then, and realised he wasn't even playing the Derrig copy - he was playing a plain cherry sunburst model. And I own a cherry sunburst plain top! Mine is a classic from 2006 IIRC but it got me interested in seeing some better photos of those guitars he had. I know he still has at least one, it has a cigarette burn and has been refinished and stuff but I'd love to see better images of them in action in the 80's and early 90's if anyone knows any websites with pics?
On my own guitar, at the moment I have a JB/59 set in aged nickel, but it's just never looked quite right to me - it's like the guitar isn't fancy enough to justify the look or something weird, so I've ordered some plain black A2Pros and we'll see how that goes....Funnily enough, when I bought the guitar 3 years or so ago it looked more like Slash's, I should have just left it as it was lol
Here's some poor quality pics of Slash's guitar I found online (you'd think there'd be a whole website devoted to his gear, but not really) and then a photo of my own Gibsons at the bottom (with my Angus and Brian picture drawn by Iain Stone from on here!).

 

[Mincer]

I do think you will get a lot closer to Slash's tone with the Alnico II Pros.

 

[beaubrummels]

If you have a plain cherry Les Pauls, sounds like you're one pickup swap away from an Appetite guitar.

 

[jeremy]

the derrig was the recording guitar but he obviously used other. i think they all had the aph1 pups in em

 

[Wolfshead]

the derrig was the recording guitar but he obviously used other. i think they all had the aph1 pups in em

Yeah, everything I've read suggests he uses the APH pickups in everything. Not sure what the deal is now though, with the Gibson line all using Gibson pickups.

 

[jeremy]

gibson does stuff like that all the time, heres a new signature model! but you have to use our pups

 

[Mincer]

Yeah, everything I've read suggests he uses the APH pickups in everything. Not sure what the deal is now though, with the Gibson line all using Gibson pickups.

Many of his newer Gibsons are actually using the Slash set.

 

[beaubrummels]

gibson does stuff like that all the time, heres a new signature model! but you have to use our pups

I thought the Duncan contract ran out?

 

[Mincer]

I thought the Duncan contract ran out?

The Slash pickups are still on the website. He might have had to cave with his Gibson model, though.

 

[Wolfshead]

Many of his newer Gibsons are actually using the Slash set.

The newest Slash models on the Gibson website don't use Seymour Duncans at all. "Each Slash Collection Gibson Les Paul™ Standard features a AAA flamed maple top, a solid mahogany body, and Slash’s personal touches including a 50s neck profile, Gibson Custom BurstBucker® Alnico 2 pickups"

 

[ErikH]

The newest Slash models on the Gibson website don't use Seymour Duncans at all. "Each Slash Collection Gibson Les Paul™ Standard features a AAA flamed maple top, a solid mahogany body, and Slash’s personal touches including a 50s neck profile, Gibson Custom BurstBucker® Alnico 2 pickups"

Slashbuckers.

 

[ErikH]

Reality is, any good Les Paul Standard with a set of Alnico II Pro humbuckers or the Slash Alnico II humbuckers will get the guitar in the ballpark for the tone. The rest is up to the player and the amp/speaker setup.

 

[Mincer]

The newest Slash models on the Gibson website don't use Seymour Duncans at all. "Each Slash Collection Gibson Les Paul™ Standard features a AAA flamed maple top, a solid mahogany body, and Slash’s personal touches including a 50s neck profile, Gibson Custom BurstBucker® Alnico 2 pickups"

Probably due to agreements between Slash and Gibson. Gibson said if you want a signature guitar, you need to use our pickups. I doubt it is Slash's preference, and I'd love to take a look at the pickups in his stage LPs.

 

[chadd]

Burstbuckers will get you in the ballpark of the tone, but APH1 or APH2 are definitely different. I've had most incarnations of all of them at one time or another.

 

[beaubrummels]

The Slash pickups are still on the website. He might have had to cave with his Gibson model, though.

I meant, I thought the contract that has Gibson using Duncan pickups ran out, like for the Rosso Corsa which has the Duncan Slash set.

http://legacy.gibson.com/Products/E...USA/Slash-Signature-Rosso-Corsa-Les-Paul.aspx

 

[ErikH]

I’m thinking that part of it had to deal with the supply chain issues and the fact that the company had to shut down for a while so they were not making any pick ups at all. And then once they finally opened up enough to start making something there just wasn’t a supply for the demand Gibson wanted or needed for those guitars so Gibson went and made their own. I could be wrong but it makes sense.

 

[Mincer]

I meant, I thought the contract that has Gibson using Duncan pickups ran out, like for the Rosso Corsa which has the Duncan Slash set.

http://legacy.gibson.com/Products/E...USA/Slash-Signature-Rosso-Corsa-Les-Paul.aspx

I don't know if we will ever know that story for real. I can't imagine Gibson would be cool with a bunch of new models using SDs. In the end, it is just confusing to consumers. The tone everyone associates with Slash is not the Gibson pickup sound.

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

He played that guitar a lot at Monsters of Rock 88, Donington, UK. Google it.

 

[beaubrummels]

I’m thinking that part of it had to deal with the supply chain issues and the fact that the company had to shut down for a while so they were not making any pick ups at all. And then once they finally opened up enough to start making something there just wasn’t a supply for the demand Gibson wanted or needed for those guitars so Gibson went and made their own. I could be wrong but it makes sense.

I thought the Slash guitars came out before any pandemic shut downs? Even if they went on sale near that time, the development and manufacturing would have preceded that by a year or more.

 

[Mincer]

I don't think the Slash guitars not using SDs has anything to do with shutdowns, but a condition of the contract between Slash and Gibson.