Pick a vintage (1952-60) Les Paul

[Chris of Arabia]

There are any number of notable vintage Les Pauls out there, usually in the hands of the great and the good. Given a choice, whose vintage LP would you like to lay your hands on? For me, it would be either Steve Hackett's 57 Goldtop, or Mark Knopfler's 58 Standard.

Your choice?

[ItsaBass]

The baddest Les Paul of them all: Neil Young's Old black:

[MetalManiac]

I could learn to live with practically any of 'em. The thing about the best of those old Golden Age guitars, is that they just play superbly for most styles, being the product of old world master luthiers, who are now pretty much gone. They just dont need to spec out with modern frets or anything like a newer instrument.

[That90'sGuy]

The baddest Les Paul of them all: Neil Young's Old black:

I like the way you think!

[jalguitarman]

I really don't much about who plays what year of Les Paul but, I would love to have a madly figured top 59 Les Paul!

[Push to Shuv]

58-60 LP Standard

[the guy who invented fire]

I HAVE to go Pearly...thats one fine instrument for sure!

[MetalManiac]

Hey TGWIF..whats that debate over whether the Reverend Billy Gibbons has the real worlds rarest guitar, and I forgot the model name . He claims to have one, but has never produced any documentation..

[Aceman]

Gotta agree - Pearly ANY day, and twice on Sunday. Amen!

[idsnowdog]

The best playing LP I have ever played was a 70's Deluxe.

[dystrust]

I'd want the best old guitar I've ever played... Back in 2004 or so, Dave's Guitar Shop had a 1956 LP that had been re-topped, re-sprayed, and refretted sometime in the 70s. They also claimed that the pickups were hybrids made from several PAFs and measured around 8K in the neck and a little hotter in the bridge. I don't know exactly what was done, but that guitar sounded better than any humbucker guitar I've ever heard, and it played great. They were asking $19,995 for it, and I'd have done it in a heartbeat if I'd had the money.

[StratFreak]

I think the idea of playing this one would be so overwhelming, and purely just so amazing.

[ratherdashing]

Can't decide between Pearly and JP #1.

[cohara41]

The baddest Les Paul of them all: Neil Young's Old black:

Just watched a youtube of Neil playing what looked like a copy of Old Black without the black paint. Goldtop but still hot.

[cohara41]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...3Divnso&itbs=1 Or maybe this one....

[uOpt]

Gilmour has a P90 TOM Goldtop that sounds "reasonably nice".

[bluesbend]

Pearly for sure. I also wouldn't mind having Peter Green/Gary Moore's old Les Paul.



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[PonyKiller]

Duane Allman '59 darkburst! Coolest Les Paul I've ever seen.

Plenty of photos here:
http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=164645

[formula73]

Funny you should mention this. My absolute favorite LP just got it's own thread over on the MLP forum. I'll just quote the whole damned thing.

[SrDeMaFp]

Pearly and the Green/Moore LP.