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Adam Jones has teamed up with Epiphone for the Les Paul Custom Art Collection. The latest guitar in the collection features artwork by the Tool guitarist’s wife, Korin Faught. Faught’s origina ...
Fans and collectors alike might have trouble keeping their mitts off such a playable guitar ... Les Paul Standard. Thankfully, Epiphone and Jones haven’t forgotten the common person, which brings us ...
Music legend Les Paul has died, succumbing to complications from pneumonia a week after his 94th birthday. Best-known today for the electric guitar that ... "When I heard Art Tatum; when I heard ...
The guitar that helped revolutionize rock ‘n’ roll is going up for auction this fall. In October, Christie’s will auction off the first Gibson Les Paul Goldtop. Dubbed “Number One,” the ...
Will you ever be able to play guitar as well as Paul McCartney? Probably not, but you can at least noodle around on a Les Paul that was custom made for him. A 1988 Gibson Les Paul that the former ...
Say the name "Les Paul" to anybody born after 1960, and they'll probably think you're talking about an electric guitar ... "When I heard Art Tatum, when I heard Fats Waller, I knew that jazz ...
As word spread of the death of guitar pioneer Les Paul today, many of those he influenced ... his brilliance and devotion to music and the art of sound. It was a privilege to have met him.
As Les Paul tells it, he was originally a pianist with a trio and determined to be exceptional. Until his friend played him a record by Art Tatum. Paul says he stopped playing piano and switched to ...
Still, the rock demi-gods of the 1960s and ‘70s adored Paul for what he handed them, the Gibson Les Paul electric guitar ... to sit in with greats such as Art Tatum and Charlie Christian.
I purchased a vintage Les Paul guitar in 1968, while in high school. The $250 price was a fortune for me at the time. It was 1952 Gold Top, the first Les Paul model introduced by the Gibson Guitar ...