RIP Les Paul

[Ive always been a dreamer]

I've been away for a bit and didn't realize that Les Paul had passed until I read the board this morning. He was a real genius and changed music forever. He will definitely be missed. RIP Les Paul.

[MikeA]

I saw a new Custom Shop Les Paul that Gibson is selling for $25,000...it's signed by Billy Gibbons of ZZ-Top. That same model without the signature is around $14,000 and the Low-end of that line is going for around $11,000. I looked at these a couple of days ago and am pulling the prices from memory.

A "normal" Les Paul Standard sells for $1,800 to around $2,400. A 1959 replica version sells for around $6,000. These never were "cheap" instruments!

The Studio version sells from $800 to around $1,300. The Studio is the same guitar as the Standard, pretty much, except for the frills like bindings and inlays on the fretboard. Same electronics and same blueprint. It is called a Studio because all the artist is interested in is it's tonal qualities....no need for all the glitz and glamor of a sunburst with all the fancy bindings.

Dear Santa...I could live with a no-frills Studio!

[MikeA]

This link was posted somewhere else, but I thought it might be best archived here. It does have a segment about 7 minutes into the CBS video commerating Les Paul about some of Joe Walsh's LPs.

Click Here for the CBS broadcast

[Prettymaid]

Thanks Mike and thanks to Brooke and AZ for pointing it out. That was great!