After owning and playing an Epiphone Les Paul LP100 (the most basic one!) for several years and only dreaming of owning a 'real' Les Paul I thought it was about time I upgraded and managed to get one relatively cheap from a friend who works in the music industry. I must say the difference in moving up from an Epiphone to a Gibson is a stunning experience on it's own for any guitarist. Anyway, this baby has burstbucker pro pickups with alnico v magnets, twenty two frets on a rosewood fingerboard, trapezoid inlays and single-ply fingerboard binding with a mahoganey body tune-o-matic bridge, nickel plating finish, two tone and two volume controls and a ...  Read the complete review

What can I say? I've had my Gibson Les Paul for years now, and it is easily the best guitar I've ever played! Not only is it beautiful, but it's incredibly nice to play. As for the price, well... There's just too much to say about this guitar, so I'll do it in lots of stages. APPEARANCE: Incredible! When I first started playing guitar, I was looking for a beginners axe and I saw one of these on the wall. My jaw literally dropped! (No kidding, I didn't even think that happened in real life...!) Obviously I didn't buy it as my first guitar, I'm not that rich/stupid, but it was always the one I wanted and I eventually got it! The shape of the Les ...  Read the complete review

An Introduction A few montha ago I decided that it was time I purchased a new electric guitar. My faithful 1988 Gibson Les Paul has served me well for the last 9 years and is still going strong. The thing is though it’s now starting to increase in value and become a nice little investment so it could do with spending a bit less time on a beer soaked stage around clumsy band members and other musicians (including myself)! So a new guitar then, but what make should I get? A metal pointy thrash machine like an Ibanez? Nah! Not my style and they look so flimsy that they’d last five minutes! A Paul Reed Smith? Nah! Lovely guitars but I’m not paying ...  Read the complete review

I had a wee read through the Les Paul ops and I thought, why has no-one written one more than about fifteen lines long? I am quite possibly the worlds most novice guitar player, and I even I can see the greatness of a Les Paul, its probably one of the most revered sold-bodied electric guitars. If you’re a non-guitar playing person, the guitar you'll have most likely heard of is the Fender Strat, with good reasons. The Stratocaster is a single coil pickup instrument, which gives it a sharper, jangly sound. Championed by Eric Clapton AND Jimmy Hendrix, a good Strat is an amazing guitar. However, in the guitar world, the Les Paul is probably just ...  Read the complete review

I have 4 guitars and this is the one I play least. Not because I like it less or that it doesn't sound good but because I love it so much I am genuinely a little bit too frightened to give it the 'rock and roll' roll out! I bought this guitar about 7 years ago and to be fair I have used it loads at gigs, jams and just playing at home I just do not want it to fall apart (which I highly doubt will happen but I am still being careful). It coast me £1399 which I also managed to get a small amp and a lead with also at a shop called Andy's in central London. The color is a really beautiful rich orange in the middle and it moves of to a deep rich red on ...  Read the complete review