Black is beautiful!!!

[MWR]

Can't remember the exact weight. I'm guessing 9 lbs. It's not too heavy at all.

Btw, the reason i say they don't get the respects that gold tops command more money, and I just don't understand why.

Great weight for a 3 p/u! Outstanding guitar! :salude

 

[billd13]

My 59 Custom, bought new in February of 1959 came with Kluson waffle backs and an aluminum finish Bigsby, not gold plated.

I stupidly sold it in 1996 for a good price then. I kick myself a lot since then. The S/N is 0 0476

 

[Texas Blues]

Are there even amps made that could contain all that guitar awesomeness?

 

[cms6795]

Ive been dreaming about a guitar like this for so long....

 

[58burst]

I owned a featherweight '57 three-pickup custom, heavily "vee"d neck,a real screamer, the second best gibson I've ever owned. Also the only guitar I ever had stolen from me (in the early 70's)...:dang

 

[Tom Wittrock]

've seen "G" stamped Epiphone tuners on Customs as well, so they didn't all come with Grovers.

Those Epiphone keys should have an "E" stamped on them, not a "G". :ganz

 

[JJ Blair]

Those Epiphone keys should have an "E" stamped on them, not a "G". :ganz

Tom, I respectfully submit an edit for your vast LP knowledge bank.

 

[JJ Blair]

My 59 Custom, bought new in February of 1959 came with Kluson waffle backs and an aluminum finish Bigsby, not gold plated.

I stupidly sold it in 1996 for a good price then. I kick myself a lot since then. The S/N is 0 0476

Thanks for that info. Were they metal tulips or plastic?

 

[JJ Blair]

Are there even amps made that could contain all that guitar awesomeness?

Yes.

 

[bigsby'd]

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[Kalamazookeeper]

That guitar/amp combo is off the charts in its degree of cool. Sub-zero, I'd say.
I'm a fingerpicker, who mostly plays over the neck pickup, so... bring on the triple-hums.
Plus, they look infinitely cooler than the two-pickup Customs.

I remember seeing those equally awesome tuners on a LPC that someone on The Gear Page found at a neighbor's house. Obviously, Gibson just modified the Epiphone "E". I'd love a set of those.

As for the amp... unspeakably crocodelicious. I saw Michael Lockwood playing through a pair of those Emerald-eyed cyclopses, when he was playing with Aimee Mann, in the nineties. As British amp eye candy goes, there are none slicker.

 

[JJ Blair]

Re: The Selmer - Black Market Music had scored a pile of them around '94. I was the first guy in town to buy one. I went in looking for an AC30 the week they arrived, and couldn't get away from how awesome these were. Then Jon Brion bought one, which is probably how Lockwood got turned onto it, as Jon was producing Aimee.

Jon used to live with me, and I had copped many gear ideas from him, but this might have been the first time I beat Jon to a tone! If only I could play guitar like him. I did let him borrow my Black Beauty for a Seal record, though, in the early '90s.

 

[Kalamazookeeper]

Funny that you should mention (and formerly live with) Jon Brion.
I was just listening to meaningless, repeatedly, this past week.
If I have "idols", Jon is definitely very high on that list. I absolutely love his solo songs, as well as all his work with Aimee, Fiona, The Grays, etc..

I wish that I could see him play in LA, but I saw all three of his shows when he played in NYC in '05 (with his 'bursted (and recently busted) '52(?) LP). When I met him, he did not disappoint, as he was very friendly.

I wish that I could play anything as well as he plays it! Living with him, and being confronted with his freakish talent, on a daily basis, would probably depress me beyond words, though. Anyway, you opened up a huge can o' worms when you mentioned Jon Brion. So I'll stop with the gushing.

 

[Tom Wittrock]

Tom, I respectfully submit an edit for your vast LP knowledge bank.

Interesting! Obviously they are E tuners altered to a G. :hmm

 

[JJ Blair]

Interesting! Obviously they are E tuners altered to a G. :hmm

That's exactly what they seem to be. Pretty damned cool, if you ask me! Just goes to show how it seemed anything went in those days!

 

[JJ Blair]

Funny that you should mention (and formerly live with) Jon Brion.
I was just listening to meaningless, repeatedly, this past week.
If I have "idols", Jon is definitely very high on that list. I absolutely love his solo songs, as well as all his work with Aimee, Fiona, The Grays, etc..

I wish that I could see him play in LA, but I saw all three of his shows when he played in NYC in '05 (with his 'bursted (and recently busted) '52(?) LP). When I met him, he did not disappoint, as he was very friendly.

I wish that I could play anything as well as he plays it! Living with him, and being confronted with his freakish talent, on a daily basis, would probably depress me beyond words, though. Anyway, you opened up a huge can o' worms when you mentioned Jon Brion. So I'll stop with the gushing.

Jon is an instrumental and musical genius of the highest order, and I don't hand out that compliment to just anybody. He and I no longer hang out, but I will pay him that compliment any day of the week. I also learned SO much from him. It didn't depress me. It just made me want to hone my ears, so that I can pull songs out of my ass on the fly, like he does. Mind you, I don't do it anywhere near as well as he does.

That's my '60 Epiphone Rivoli bass on the Grays record. 36kΩ resistance on the pickup. Insane!

Jason Falkner and I are still good buddies. Another ridiculously talented genius. He keeps trying to get the Selmer off of me.

 

[Kalamazookeeper]

That's my '60 Epiphone Rivoli bass on the Grays record.
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And in the booklet!
I'm an equally big fan of Jason's. Can't wait for All Quiet on the Noisefloor to be released in the US.

Please tell him to play a show in NYC! And to bring Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. along for good measure.

 

[JJ Blair]

Not to keep taking this thread further off topic, but I engineered the TV Eyes record they did together. Really great fun.

 

[27sauce]

That's exactly what they seem to be. Pretty damned cool, if you ask me! Just goes to show how it seemed anything went in those days!

I've seen a Firebird with an Epiphone vibrola (you know the one with the E inlaid in wood) with a modified E in to a G.

 

[Rev.WillieVK]

Back in Black... :biggrin:

The owner of this '59 couldn't deal with the middle pickup so he lowered it as far as possible in the ring and he played the neck or bridge by themselves. The resulting middle position was weak/nasal/quacky but potentially usable...

BTW the bridge pickup on this one is god-like and will blow any guitar-lover away! :dude: