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Warren Haynes on his 12-string Les Paul and playing the iconic guitars of Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman

The Gibson Les Paul has been a mainstay of Warren Haynes’ guitar arsenal since his days as a fledgling player in his native ...
Business Insider

When innovation takes a sound of its own: Leo Fender and Les Paul's legendary electric guitars and rethinking the process of invention

Innovation is about more than the people who create a product, or the companies that back them. The history of the electric guitar shows that the musicians who worked the instrument were as much a ...
MusicRadar

Does the Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Les Paul Custom Shop model sound that much better than the standard version? These demos may have the answer

Epiphone has taken a fair amount of flak for its $1000+ Inspired By Gibson Custom Shop versions of established electric guitar classics like the Les Paul – especially its signature models. Some ...
The Washington Post

The Holy Grail of electric guitars? Auction of a Les Paul ax has split six-string circles.

Les Paul was a musician, inventor and obsessive tinkerer. His signature six-string became the instrument of choice for a Mount Rushmore of guitar heroes: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. But ...
MusicRadar

“From scorching lead guitar to his own line of hot sauces, Billy Gibbons has never been afraid of a little extra heat”: Seymour Duncan and the ZZ Top frontman team up for ...

There's a hotter-than-hell Hades humbucker set to soup-up your own Pearly Gates at home, and the Red Devil single-coil sized 'bucker for dropping into your Tele's bridge position When you purchase ...
Chicago Tribune

Les Paul guitars, items fetch $5 million at auction

The guitar, a rare 1982 Gibson Les Paul prototype recording model ... He was best known in the music community as an inventor of guitars and a pioneer of recording techniques. He died in 2009 at age ...