- 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)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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