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YMMV. Everyone needs a good Les Paul in their life or at least have one pass through your hands for a while.
Back when music first caught my eye LPs were the kings. Copies everywhere in 1976. My first guitar I bought in August of 1977 was a 1976 Ibanez LP Standard variation in all Natural. Had that about a year before selling it to get my first V. I have had a The Paul twice. That was a lower priced model out '78-'79 before becoming the Firebrand series LP in 1980. Traded the first one I bought in the Spring of '79 later that year in October for a '75 Strat I thought I really needed. Dumb move for my non guitar educated self in hindsight. I did miss it so that I bought another one about 1995 or so and still have it today. This thread is not about that one though. Never really took the plunge to buy a "real" Gibber LP in the same way I have never bought a Gibber Explorer although I have a ton of Explorer variations from other manufactuers. So many good variations on the LP theme I never have gotten one.
Saw Ted nugent in '81 on a lil midwest tour he did and he had a sweet Amber looking LP. First time I had seen him with a LP usually them Byrdlands would be laying it on the ears LOUD AND PROUD! Well he had one on those dates and it was reallly nice looking.
I had seen Gary Ritchrath with his LPs in that faded Cherry to Amberburst and a local guy named Kent in a circuit band called Keystone had a LP just like it that always caught my eye and ear. Kent had Ritchrath tone everytime I saw them. That was his idol to a degree. That was why he had a guitar like Gary's. I said I would get a LP like that should it ever come along. Then you have Joe Perry with his Bad ASS LP that he wrote Walk This Way on and ended up years later getting back on his 50th Birthday. From Slash no less. Slash with the Appetite LP. So many sweet Amberbursts
Years later, 2000 IIRC, good guitar friend shows up with ANOTHER Killer LP as he always does then and now. We crank it up and wail a few tunes. It was a Schulte Les Paul repro and it was SWEEET!!! And just the right color. Rick puts it up F/S a few months later and after this and that I end up with it. Well it was also my first Duncan loaded guitar and I fell for it and them.
Schulte is Eric Schulte a Pennsylvania guitar maker. Right about the same time I bought the guitar Vintage Guitar did a story on Eric. http://www.vintageguitar.com/1962/eric-schulte-custom-guitars/ I was able to "stalk" him online and get a phone number. I had 3 short conversations with him. He was 76 at that time. He was not online so I could not send him any pictures or get much info on this one or another LP double cut P90 Junior I found. Both are really nice LPs.
Friday I was hanging out here at the house and just as I was finishing the dishes I noticed some great fading sunlight and snagged some shots of this old friend. Lil Lester.
Back when music first caught my eye LPs were the kings. Copies everywhere in 1976. My first guitar I bought in August of 1977 was a 1976 Ibanez LP Standard variation in all Natural. Had that about a year before selling it to get my first V. I have had a The Paul twice. That was a lower priced model out '78-'79 before becoming the Firebrand series LP in 1980. Traded the first one I bought in the Spring of '79 later that year in October for a '75 Strat I thought I really needed. Dumb move for my non guitar educated self in hindsight. I did miss it so that I bought another one about 1995 or so and still have it today. This thread is not about that one though. Never really took the plunge to buy a "real" Gibber LP in the same way I have never bought a Gibber Explorer although I have a ton of Explorer variations from other manufactuers. So many good variations on the LP theme I never have gotten one.
Saw Ted nugent in '81 on a lil midwest tour he did and he had a sweet Amber looking LP. First time I had seen him with a LP usually them Byrdlands would be laying it on the ears LOUD AND PROUD! Well he had one on those dates and it was reallly nice looking.
I had seen Gary Ritchrath with his LPs in that faded Cherry to Amberburst and a local guy named Kent in a circuit band called Keystone had a LP just like it that always caught my eye and ear. Kent had Ritchrath tone everytime I saw them. That was his idol to a degree. That was why he had a guitar like Gary's. I said I would get a LP like that should it ever come along. Then you have Joe Perry with his Bad ASS LP that he wrote Walk This Way on and ended up years later getting back on his 50th Birthday. From Slash no less. Slash with the Appetite LP. So many sweet Amberbursts
Years later, 2000 IIRC, good guitar friend shows up with ANOTHER Killer LP as he always does then and now. We crank it up and wail a few tunes. It was a Schulte Les Paul repro and it was SWEEET!!! And just the right color. Rick puts it up F/S a few months later and after this and that I end up with it. Well it was also my first Duncan loaded guitar and I fell for it and them.
Schulte is Eric Schulte a Pennsylvania guitar maker. Right about the same time I bought the guitar Vintage Guitar did a story on Eric. http://www.vintageguitar.com/1962/eric-schulte-custom-guitars/ I was able to "stalk" him online and get a phone number. I had 3 short conversations with him. He was 76 at that time. He was not online so I could not send him any pictures or get much info on this one or another LP double cut P90 Junior I found. Both are really nice LPs.
Friday I was hanging out here at the house and just as I was finishing the dishes I noticed some great fading sunlight and snagged some shots of this old friend. Lil Lester.
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