Musician Gear & Tech Discussion

Philby,

I understand that, but Im in pretty good shape for a guy of my age, and no other guitar Ive owned sounds or feels like a Les Paul. I have a Strat and force myself to play it, just because I have it. But Im Les Paul thru and thru. My band is a ballsy three piece with lead singer and the only guitar I will carry into battle is a Paul.

I really dont notice the weight, in fact I sat in a few weeks ago with a friends band and he has one of those Ibanez guitars RG series everyone plays. I couldnt stand it. Number one it was too light, I need a guitar to anchor me to the floor. It sounded really thin to me. I can appreciate the neck, it was flat and fast, but the guitar just didnt inspire me to play. Les Pauls always give me a woody!

Next time you play a heavy guitar or bass drink a RedBull or better yet a Yagar Bomb, I promise you wont feel the weight, plus youll have all the gals hanging on you like I do. Thats it your scared of the women, Right?

Have a good day!

You know Im just kidding aroud dont you?

My Goddess is really not all that heavy. As a matter of fact if anything she is a little neck heavy on the strap. Would be my only complaint IF I were'nt in love..
This is an embarrasing thread. Took me five tries to post a damned picture.

Sweet guitars. I play an Epi LP Standard Plus Top, the transparent blue. Sure, Les Pauls are heavy, but they just feel sooo right.

Heres my baby ... or one of them and since this is a LP thread I will ablige

2005 Epiphone Les Paul Custom

Nice axe man.

Id have a white one but blood stains show up too good on them. I guess I'll stick to black.

Slipped thats a nice looking axe. Crip has a Gibby that looks similiar. That gold hardware stands out on white.

LOL @ JW..

You let blood get on your guitar? OMG>> lol

Soon as it gets fuct, the guitar goes right in the hard case..(I might have to swing it) lo

Latest Les Paul 1993 Les Paul Studio in wine red.

This is my singers guitar and he wants me to play it this coming weekend.

WOW, its been ages since i used this website and i just checked my old forum posts and since then,i actyually bought myself a wine red les paul studio JUST LIKE THAT ! i think mines 1996 or 97 though, cnt remember

A sweet axe for sure.

I also have a black Les Paul Classic , a 2007, that I got of Ebay as well for $1,200.00, a fair buy considering it was basically new. At first I didn't bond that well with it because of the high output ceramic pickups, and also the weight and the poorly done frets. So I installed a Gibson Classic '57 Plus in the bridge and a SD '59 in the neck and it now has a more traditional Les Paul tone. I had the frets leveled, crowned and polished by a very good luthier and now the neck and fretboard are much better playing. I like the neck shape and tone of this guitar a lot. The weight I'll have to get used to, and got a wide strap to help distribute the weight somewhat. I'm using it much more these days as it feels more solid to play than my 335.