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.
i have a live humble pie record with frampton. it's awesome.
and steve marriott is the coolest. he used a les paul, too.
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:14 pm
by Fran
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.
What do they go for? About $5,000?
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 10:23 pm
by paul_
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.
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:02 pm
by Mages
I like it except for the seemingly mismatched cream bits and the gold speed knobs. replace them with black parts and witch hats and then it'd be cool.
