I want this guitar! Don't laugh. I used to like him before he became famous(Herd,Humble Pie,Frampton's Camel). Me and my roomates did setup for a concert he played to my college in 1973.That was the first Les Paul I saw.
Obviously nice but i really dislike mid position pups. They get in the way for me, i've always lowered them flush with the body on Strat's but i cant imagine how much a surface mounted pup would irritate me.
Too much has gone down in popular music since Comes Alive for me to find it truly cheesy. He was one of the more melodic and less-bluesy lead players of his day with a commanding knowledge of the fretboard, it's a shame he had to be such a wuss or else he'd be one of the ultimate bad-asses. I would consider someone like Robin Trower to be twice as cheesy.
And he didn't use the middle pickup, I remember reading he had it disconnected on his original but Gibson's limited run version of the guitar (he lost his in a plane crash) had it on all the time instead.
I remember my creative writing teacher in my senior year of high school was still using materials from her first year of teaching which included a review a student had written of a Ted Nugent concert (so I'm already dismissive). Near the beginning it said something like "the opening group Humble Pie were not very good, a low-class bar band" and I went "booooo"
Not good first impression.
Aug wrote:which one of you bastards sent me an ebay question asking if you can get teh kurdtz with that 64 mustang?
robertOG wrote:fran & paul are some of the original gangstas of the JS days when you'd have to say "phuck"