Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Les paul

  • The Pawn Stars (Mon., 10 p.m. EST on History) were the envy of guitar enthusiasts everywhere when singer Mary Fords nephew showed up with a guitar case in tow.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • At Gibson Guitar's largest manufacturing facility, in Nashville, the plant manager, Johnny Alexander, unracks a just-built Les Paul Standard electric guitar. He slowly rotates it, light flashing on the undulating grain of its curly maple wood top.
  • (Businessweek)
  • Epiphone has released a Limited Edition Ace Frehley Budokan Les Paul Custom Outfit while, if you are minted, Gibson Custom has released two similar models.
  • (Sonic State)
  • When KISS hit the stage at Nippon Budokan in Japan in 1977 with guitarist Ace Frehley behind a Cherry Sunburst, three-pickup Les Paul Custom, the entire package—band, guitarist, guitar—embodied the height of glam-rock excess and success for the '70s.
  • (TMR Zoo)
  • Seymour Duncan just announced the release of a new Joe Bonamassa Signature dual-humbucker set based on the pickups in Joes favorite 59 Les Paul. Joe himself was on hand to demonstrate the new pickups, taking part is a special jam with Seymour Duncan himself.
  • (Guitar World Magazine)
  • Peter Frampton's long-lost guitar was recently discovered after its disappearance in a plane crashmore than three decades ago.
  • (Salt Lake Tribune)
  • It just boggles the mind.
  • (News Busters)
  • N.C. Operas gripping, imaginative production of Les Enfants Terribles by Philip Glass again Its the disturbing tale of Paul and his sister Lise, whose close bonds create their own special world.
  • (The News & Observer)
  • Les Paul started modifying the guitar by age 8. He began professionally recording in the 1930s, then constructed The Log, the granddaddy to solid-body electric guitars and pioneered the use of multi-tracking on records.
  • (NPR News)

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