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An ode to the Les Paul Special (with sound content)

gsg

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This is why I love the Les Paul Special:



It's just over 6 years since I bought my 1957 Les Paul Special (thanks again Yuuki). It's been my #1 ever since. It had a pretty ugly refin in the 70s so no serial # I can give you, has the original pickups, period correct harness (though not the original) and now a mojo axe bridge. It still amazes me the range of tones I can get from pickup selection and guitar volume/tone. Ballsy bridge tones, jangly rhythms, funky and cutting, big and bold neck tones, acoustic-like rolled down...

All this to say, I think me and the Special is a match made in heaven.
 
sws1

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Nice. Love the tone around 1:30. You can almost sense what it feels like to be in the room at that point.
 
Jumping@Shadows

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gsg said:
This is why I love the Les Paul Special:



It's just over 6 years since I bought my 1957 Les Paul Special (thanks again Yuuki). It's been my #1 ever since. It had a pretty ugly refin in the 70s so no serial # I can give you, has the original pickups, period correct harness (though not the original) and now a mojo axe bridge. It still amazes me the range of tones I can get from pickup selection and guitar volume/tone. Ballsy bridge tones, jangly rhythms, funky and cutting, big and bold neck tones, acoustic-like rolled down...

All this to say, I think me and the Special is a match made in heaven.
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Sounds perfect Chris! My first ‘50s LP was a refin big necked ‘56 LPS, and I don’t think I’ve greatly improved on that tone and performance since :salude
I believe Gil said that for tone alone, Gibson could have stopped at the SC LPS- now send it over so I can give it a ‘50s correct TV Yellow refin :)
 
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