6/1/2023 0 Comments Gibson les paul famous playersPete Townshend of “The Who” also picked up a Les Paul and made it sing for you.įender-fabulous Jimi Hendrix played a Gibson Les Paul in performance. Here’s Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones wielding a Les Paul.ĭo you recognize a young and vibrant Keith Richards playing his Les Paul during a Rolling Stones recording session? You have a whammy bar on a Stratocaster - which does make things more tonally tougher. Jeff has recently tried to recant his Les Paul years - by calling it a “sissy” guitar - but I think he was making a joke because a Les Paul is much easier, and much less complicated, to play than a Fender. Jeff is also owned by Fender today, with his own namesake guitar, but Jeff built his reputation on the back of Gibson mahogany. ![]() Here’s Jeff Beck playing, in the early years, his famous “Oxblood” Les Paul. ![]() Today, he plays a Fender Stratocaster with his name on it, but he owes his early recording fame to Gibson and a Les Paul fingerboard. The seminal year for the Gibson Les Paul - then and now - is the 1959 version.Įric Clapton played his Les Paul in all of his early groups. I argue today, that the greatest guitarists of our time started off their careers playing the Gibson Les Paul - even though Fender and the Stratocaster and Telecaster were cheaper and beat the Les Paul to market. ![]() If you want to know what guitar a great guitarist really plays - you need to look beyond what they are playing now - and hearken back to what guitar they were playing when they were poor, unknown, and hungering for fame.
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