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Nice video nacm! The LP and your playing sound fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
The pic below is of my Les Paul... It has the slim tapered 60's neck and 496R & 500T pickups in it. Everything is stock!
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Dobro - me again.
Mike Bloomfield was the reason I got hooked on Les Pauls - but Duane and Dickey sure helped seal the deal.
Also, there is no way my Les Paul was made in the 60's. LPs were discontinued in the early 60's and reintroduced in 1968 or so. They all had humbuckers, serial #s and autographs (at least the ones I've seen).
I bought mine in a hock shop in Boston in 1973. It was sold to me as a '56 - but I don't think that's right either.
Hey Dobro - thanks for the info - but here's the deal on trying to find my Paul's manufacturing date.
1. There is no serial #
2. There is no Les Paul autograph
3. The top is 3-piece arch top in flame maple.
4. There used to be a trapeze bridge on it (you can see where the screw holes were)
5. The pots were made in 1951
6. The PUPs are P90's
7. The knobs are tophat knobs, not barrels (obviously, these could have been added at any time before I bought it).
I think that the folks who dated the guitar relied on the date of manfucature for the pots, the lack of serial #, and lack of autograph to come to the conclusion that it's a very early 1952. But, from pics I've seen, the 1952 didn't look to be an arch top.
Anyhow, I've been totally unable to find any information about Les Pauls with the above features.
Gee, I wonder why we all bought LP's? I remember the first time I got to play one, when I was in high school. Played a few licks from "Melissa" and that solid tone had me thinkin, "Hey...I can play just like Dickey"!
Um...still workin on that!
Here's a great site that sheds a lot of information....it may help trackin down your mfg date.
Enjoy!
http://latesixtieslespauls.com/default.asp
Hey Bluesky - great to hear from you. If you're interested, you can see and hear my Les Paul at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyLu5y0n9A
This wasn't quite the out-of-body experience I described, but for me I was getting on it pretty good.
I'm not familiar with MiM strats let alone a 60th Anniversary one; I'd love to hear it. The American Standard I have sounds fantastic - single-coil Tex-Mex PUPs on that dude. With the treble on my amp backed way off, and mids and bass boosted, the tone is just beautiful and it plays very well too.
Also, if you're interested check out my band's website at www.bluesdoctors.webs.com
Thanks for your reply and let's get some more players on board here.
Hey there everyone! :wave:
nacm, I know exactly what your talking about with your post a few posts ago about the out of body experience playing guitar. It has happened to me a few times and it is euphoric. Playing music totally by feel instead of all the technical mumbo jumbo. Once you tap into that, you play things you never knew you could play. 😎
My rig is kinda similar to yours as well. I have three main guitars I play. My number 1 is a 2000 Gibson Les Paul Classic with tobacco sunburst finish. Incredible tone and miles of sustain! My 2nd guitar is a 2006 Fender Strat 60th Anniversary MIM with a blizzard pearl finish. I was never too hip on the MIM strats but this one plays and sounds as good if not better than the American ones I've owned in the past. My third is a Takamine acoustic. Plays and sounds awesome! For my amps I run a Fender Hot Rod Deville and Blues Junior. They both crank!
On a side note...it was Dickey and Duane that inspired me to by a Les Paul. I guess they are pretty good salesmen! 😀
Tubes do rule! For the past few years I've been playing through a Hot Rod Blues Junior - only 15 Watts, but don't laugh - they've got to be the biggest watts ever. That little thing is plenty loud enough for all of the clubs I've been playing in.
As for guitars - I play 3 (not at the same time).
1. Very old Les Paul (professionals dated it as a 1952 model, but I think they're wrong). I've owned and played this guitar since 1973. I refinished it (natural) and refitted it after it was a flood victim in 1976.
2. American Standard Strat - nothing special about it, except that when I bought it I played every damned strat in the store before I settled on this one. Black with maple neck. Some tunes just cry out for that strat tone!
3. ES 335 Studio - a birthday gift from my wife. Interesting semi-solid body, single "dirty fingers" humbucker. Great sound, plays like butter and really cool looking in midnight blue.
I love them all and probably won't ever get another one - but there's that telecaster slimline I've been wanting....
Finally someone who wants to talk music and guitars. Yippee!!
What a great show by McCartney!
I do believe that Sir Paul sometimes plays a Les Paul Deluxe. I myself am a very honoured owner (since 77) of a late 69 Deluxe. Refinished natural by the original owner, and refretted by me, it will serve me proudly for the rest of my playing days. My granny bought it for me as a gift, and I named it after her. She was not blonde, so it is not "Goldie". I read recently that Gibson will reintroduce the LSLP in 2015 for a meager sum of 2300 bucks.
Dang, I wanna make that St Pete show but work has me out o' state.
Toys for Tots is a posibility!!
nacm, keep talkin it up. Tubes rule.
Darn I missed it.
ok....I agree...just blowing off steam
My apologies and will stick to the music
Sing While I'm :walk:
AMEN!!!
Amen, Amen!!!!
Here's an idea - instead of insulting one another (and badly, I might add) let's try discussing music and guitars. I know it's a difficult concept for some, but let's give it a try.
Great McCartney set - I guess Sir Paul still has it working.
Amen. Amen.
Paul McCartney's set at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on Oct. 11, 2014:
1. Eight Days a Week
2. Save Us
3. All My Loving
4. Listen to What the Man Said
5. Let Me Roll It
6. Paperback Writer
7. My Valentine
8. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
9. The Long and Winding Road
10. Maybe I'm Amazed
11. I've Just Seen a Face
12. We Can Work It Out
13. Another Day
14. And I Love Her
15. Blackbird
16. Here Today
17. New
18. Queenie Eye
19. Lady Madonna
20. All Together Now
21. Lovely Rita
22. Everybody Out There
23. Eleanor Rigby
24. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
25. Something
26. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
27. Band on the Run
28. Back in the U.S.S.R.
29. Let It Be
30. Live and Let Die
31. Hey Jude
First encore:
32. Day Tripper
33. Birthday
34. Get Back
Second encore:
35. Yesterday
36. Helter Skelter
37. Golden Slumbers
38. Carry That Weight
39. The End
From Times-Picayune artivle 10/12/2014
Re Freddie King, read your post as I was spinning vinyl of him playing "Going Down" (on a live cut from 1972 Ann Arbor Blues Festival concert) Coincidence.
Listening to Some Live Freddie King. Died way too soon. Dickey does a great Hideway.
http://youtu.be/2JnEfWRZzNk
Dickey is once again hosting a benefit for Toys for Tots...
Once again some less fortunate kids will have a happier Christmas thanks to
br'er betts :yep:
http://youtu.be/wRGmQMQF_SU