Gibson Les Paul: A Financial Investment?
Written by vintage on August 25, 2009 – 3:41 am -By Jonathan Starkey Washington Post Staff Writer Gil Hembree was 20 years old and working the counter at Kitt's Music on G Street NW when he spotted a 1962 Gibson catalogue featuring the music-making duo of Les Paul and Mary Ford. It wasn't the couple that caught his attention but rather the guitar slung over Paul's shoulder: an original-style, single-cutaway Gibson Les Paul model with a gold finish. That was 1966. Soon after, Hembree saw an Evening Star classified ad for a 1952 Gibson Goldtop Les Paul. He paid $100 to a country-music fan in the Maryland suburbs. Hembree later sold it to a musician for $400, booking a profit he used to help cover tuition at American University, where he studied accounting. "He had no idea, and I didn't really... more
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Les Paul has died at 94
Written by vintage on August 14, 2009 – 1:16 am -Inventor changed course of music with electric guitar, multitrack recording NEW YORK - Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock ’n’ roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94. According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side. As an inventor, Paul also helped bring about the rise of rock ’n’ roll with multitrack recording, which enables artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves, and then carefully balance the tracks in the finished recording. The use of electric guitar gained popularity in the mid-to-late 1940s, and then exploded with the advent of rock in the mid-’50s. “Suddenly,... more
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GIBSON CUSTOM 1958 LES PAUL STANDARD VINTAGE ORIGINAL SPEC SERIES
Written by vintage on June 5, 2009 – 1:18 pm -There are some guitars that stand out from the bunch, and Gibson Custom worked out a way to produce just that kind of instrument. 1958 Les Paul Standard Vintage Original Spec Series is truly an amazing guitar that performs well and sounds terrific. You may safely head over to online music store and grab yourself one of these without ever trying it, if you believe your fellow musicians who gave this instrument highest grades. 1958 Les Paul Standard Vintage Original Spec Series really deserves those, and will surely make you a happy guitar player! 1958 Les Paul Standard Vintage Original Spec Series features: Mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard pickups: BurstBucker Gibson Custom took time and with it's accumulated experience made a 1958 Les Paul... more
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