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Were there factory SGs that had Les Paul silkscreened on the headstock? How many went out like that? I thought once Gibson switched over to the SG shape, Les’s name was only on the truss rod cover, before it eventually vanished completely.
My '83 Custom had the little "PAF" stickers on the pickup rings to spotlight the Tim Shaw-designed PAF clones which were pretty good-sounding pickups, the diamond-shaped strap pegs, and the gold-plated tuning pegs with the little crank handles that pop out. Here are the photos of my black '83...
Early in the Mick Taylor era, before Keith became a Telecaster obsessive, Les Pauls and SGs also coexisted quite nicely:
(In this clip from the Maysles Brothers' legendary 1970 Gimme Shelter documentary, Keith magically changes guitar from his Black Beauty Custom to a clear Dan Armstrong...
Quick update: Becoming Led Zeppelin is now available for rental or purchase on Amazon Prime Video, and possibly other platforms as well, for those who want to watch at home.
I think that's entirely likely. In Barney Hoskyns' 2012 book, Led Zeppelin: The Oral History of the World's Greatest Rock Band, Danny Goldberg, the “US press officer for Zeppelin, president of Swan Song in the US,“ was quoted as saying, “In the United States, there was a tremendous shift once...
The interview with Gibbons’ tech, discussing how they EQ all of his stage guitars to sound as close to Pearly was a riot. Most guitarists want their guitars to sound as differently as possible, when they switch between a Les Paul, a Strat, a Tele, etc. Gibbons has all sorts of wild-looking stage...
I don't know how authentic they were to the originals, but they were such cool looking guitars. Here's the advertisement that Gibson created back then:
It looks awfully light in the photo above to be ebony. According to Gearspace, in what sounds like Gibson's press release, it's "a rosewood fretboard with agoya shell 8-point star inlays."
My wife and I saw Becoming Led Zeppelin yesterday afternoon in a packed Imax theater in Dallas. If you’re a Zeppelin fan, you owe it to yourself to see this while it’s in theaters. It’s effectively two movies: a look at the future members of the band as they scuffled through their early days as...