Les Paul Electric Guitars

Les Paul Electric Guitars are an American icon.

Les Paul Electric Guitars are one of the most popular electric guitars in the world. Not only is it a pristine musical instrument, it has played a major role in creating some of the major icons of our culture. It’s hard to picture Jimmy Page without his trademark cherry burst… which has that, thing, below the b string, under the bridge, more on that later. Slash; copying Jimmy Page with the guitar down to his knees, hair in eyes, cigarette, OH, he has a hat so he’s different. Still, there are not a lot of people who have achieved icon status and Slash has certainly accomplished that. Zak Wylde’s target Les Paul is definitely one of the most recognizable guitars in the world of rock, possibly passing Prince’s swirly telecaster but not surpassing the ever-original Van Halen stripe. For me it’s the three-pickup black Les Paul Custom.

	1982 GIBSON LES PAUL SILVER STREAK		$1,200.00
	1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard Sunburst		$108,000.00
	Epiphone Les Paul Zak Wylde Buzzsaw Black Label Guitar		$450.00
	2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard Faded Finish 60s neck		$1,799.00
	Gibson Music Rising Les Paul - #137 of 300 - Mint		$2,950.00 $3,500.00
	2008 GIBSON LES PAUL ROBOT LIMITED EDITION-MINT!		$1,175.00
	1976 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Tobacco Sunburst Excellent		$3,199.99
	LES PAUL CUSTOM		$500.00 $800.00
	Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Guitar!! ENCZCMGH1		$649.00
	Gibson Epi Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Guitar Nice!!		$600.00

I have owned several Les Paul Electric Guitars and played many of these most excellent electric guitars. My first and favorite was a three pickup black Les Paul Custom. My brother bought it for me in the summer of ’77. The year before, “Frampton Comes Alive” came out and destroyed the rock charts, I loved that album and of course the three-pickup black Les Paul Custom Peter was playing on the fold out cover. That summer I mastered bar chords, got the dom9 jazz/blues chord down and could do a little pentatonic soloing which landed me in the high school stage band the next year. I had a ton of hair and a couple of solos where I (inappropriately) did the ultra-new Van Halen hammer-on speed lick. Jazz director scowled, kids loved it, called me Eddie Van Frampton. It was cool for me to be associated to a popular artist via an instrument, I suppose the hair added to the overall effect as well but the Frampton part was strictly the guitar.