#Les Paul Guitars

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... remembering ...

45 years ago today the 29-year-old, former T. Rex singer Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld) was killed instantly when the car driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree in Barnes, London. Miss Jones broke her jaw in the accident. The couple were on the way to Bolan's home in Richmond after a night out at a Mayfair restaurant.

" Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it. "

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"...HE DID SOMETHING THAT LATER BECAME KNOWN AS PUNK OR SPEED METAL -- A GREAT NUMBER OF CHORDS..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on unearthed Polaroids of American guitarist James Williamson playing a Les Paul Custom with proto-punk/hard rock band THE STOOGES, performing live at an unknown venue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1973.

"The first time I heard him play," says Iggy Pop, "which was in a basement in Ann Arbor, he did something that later became known as punk or speed metal – a great number of chords, almost all at once – but which at that time came from no known musical vocabulary. His playing had dirt, but it did not lack authority. You could hear the intelligence in it."

What did Pop make of his new guitarist? "Somebody once wrote that James's guitar style sounds "distinctly unfriendly," he says with a laugh. "Let's just say that James was not the most friendly person I'd ever met. But I wasn't paying too much attention to him as a person, only as a guitar player.""

-- THE GUARDIAN, "The world was not ready for Iggy and the Stooges," by Will Hodgkinson & Alexis Petridis, March 11, 2010

Sources: https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2010/mar/11/iggy-and-the-stooges-raw-power & Picuki.

[zegalba]

Sade Adu (1993)

[ninakoll]

needed an icon for my enstars playlist. gibson les paul guitar rinne upon ye

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[the-infamous-man]

Just got this awesome set of sketches from @.Steve_J_art over on Twitter for my redesign of Mina Mongoose from my Archie/IDW Sonic crossover, Rediscovered Frontiers!

If any of you are interested in my Archie/IDW Sonic the Hedgehog crossover fanfic, Rediscovered Frontiers, please be sure to check it out here:

[diana-andraste]

"How High the Moon" - Les Paul and Mary Ford, 1951

[deebeeus]

A quick break from the @elmiravintageguitars pics to show you the main reason I have a smile permanently plastered to my face these days:

2014 Gibson Custom 1959 Les Paul Reissue.

[nightisthenotion]

Jimmy Page

[ourloveforgear]

an overview of paul's guitars

before we look into pauls gear, i want to make sure we all are aware that im talking about the guitars he used WITH interpol. ill add some notes on his other instruments at the end of this post.

[paul with his and daniels guitars]

LES PAUL CUSTOM

"I've owned my Les Paul Custom since high school... its all I pretty much use today."

from what i can tell, paul has two les pauls, and he uses them interchangeably. first, though, id like to do a quick spec overview. his guitars have an ebony finish, and seeing as this guitar was most likely acquired in the 90s, gibson 490r and 498t pickups. in almost every picture i see of his les pauls, it seems he or a guitar tech have switched out the stock gold bridge with a black one. im not a gibson expert, so im not sure of the exact model, but it looks to be a tune-o-matic style bridge. he also has removed the covers on the pickups of his guitar. another quick note, in photos from around 2004 to 2005, there is a square shaped hole cut clean through his piece of velcro on his les paul. this was done to hold his ebow during take you on a cruise. thats all the specs/mods to show, ill put some pictures highlighting the points ive gone over.

[a close up of one of pauls les pauls, 2015. note the bridge, and absence of pickup covers]

[what i thought was a hole turned out to be a piece of velcro]

[hole has been blocked/filled! may 21, 2005]

[early picture of paul, with his pickup covers still on. very modest]

JAGUAR

"The Jaguar actually came about specifically within Interpol because I had written a part in which I wanted whammy, and I don't like Les Pauls with Bigsbys."

from what i can deduce, i think this guitar is a fender american vintage jaguar from 2005-06, in black. paul hasnt done too many mods to this instrument, though their are a few changes, most importantly, the pickup swap. he changed the stock jaguar pickups to seymour duncan hot rails sometime after recording our love to admire. while this definitely changed the sound a bit, this was after OLTA, so i wont bother finding dates, as the songs the jaguar was likely used on wouldve been the stock single coils. next up, the pickguard. the american vintage jags in black came with a tortoise shell pickguard, but pauls has a black one. what gives? well, seeing as carlos' jazz bass came with a white guard, but that was switched to black, its not outlandish to believe that this was done by paul or his tech, to give the jag a darker look. paul also put tape on the guitars lower horns control switches, most likely to stop his hand from accidently hitting the switches, and changing his sound mid song.

[paul with his jaguar, before he swapped the pickups.]

[another pic before the pickup swap. note the tape on the control panel.]

[a later pic, where we can see he added MORE tape to the guitar, and after he swapped the pickups to hot rails.}

INTERMISSION

if you ask me, pauls les paul custom and jaguar are the two guitars youd definitively need to get his sound, and also the two guitars HE uses to get his sound. but what other guitars has paul used with interpol? lets see.

LES PAUL DELUXE

used during the TOTBL era, this guitar is sort of a mystery. for one, he didnt seem to favor it for certain songs, using his les paul custom and deluxe interchangeably for many songs, even playing full shows with his deluxe. secondly, from what ive seen, this instrument was NOT used after the TOTBL era. its probable that this instrument was either used on a few songs from TOTBL, and brought along on tour as a backup that paul just happened to really like and play alot, or it was rented for shows over seas. either way, its an interesting case.

[the mysterious gold top deluxe. wonder what song hes playing here?]

FLYING V

paul has stated that he thinks the flying v is the coolest looking guitar out there. to each their own, i guess. that doesnt matter, what matters is that he played this instrument in the barricade music video. he used this guitar at the end of the OLTA era, during the self titled era, and has rarely been seen with it after that. most likely has the same pickups as his les paul custom, but dont quote me on that.

[as long as he likes it.]

CONCLUSION

there is one more guitar i didnt bring up, so ill do it here now, and its his dave murray strat. he hasnt used it live with interpol, though it is seen in behind the scenes footage of el pintor. anyways, leave a comment if youd like me to cook up a list of what guitars i think were used on each song! i hope you enjoyed reading this, next up i think ill go over his amps and other equipment. till next time.

[Paul Banks.]

[ricfreak]

Retired Extremely Dangerous ❤️

[mmondely]

Slash live on stage

[pastelmuppet]

🌼☮️🧡🎸Janice🎸🧡☮️🌼

Will do more of the Mayhem possibly soon!!

[cannedbluesblog]

Keith Richards with a Les Paul Custom

[frankbankinternational]

"Pansy" is named as one of the most iconic guitars ever in rock music history!

She is a beauty and an icon of a generation, truly!

The article does mention that a guitar tech broke Pansy but it was actually Frank that smashed her and the whole stage set-up which was filmed for MTV but never aired (mentioned in the Ernie Ball String Theory interview)

via metalshout

[blackros78]

Fast Eddie Clarke