GPOTD 5.7.18

[Help!I'maRock!]

Last week's inevitable news about Gibson got me thinking about the GPOTD. And I think I'd like to move towards week long profiles of companies, at least for a while. We'll run out of companies pretty quickly anyway.

I thought I would start with my favorite Gibson, the Les Paul Recording. This guitar is completely misunderstood. It's the guitar Les actually played until his death, and they sound spectacular. Gibson even reissued it after Les died. This example is, unfortunately, sans-poop knife. But it had the best pics. So here it is, in all of its 70's brown glory.

Gibson Les Paul Recording 1971

• Body: Mahogany
• Neck: 1-piece mahogany
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Frets: 22
• Inlays: Trapezoid
• Scale: 629mm (24,75")
• Bridge: Tune O-matic
• Nut: Bone
• Tuners: Grover "Star"
• Pickups: Low impedance Oblong pickups
• Controls: Volumen, decade, bass, treble, 3 way-switch selector, 1x phase slide and 1x tone slide
• Finish: High gloss natural lacker finish
• Built-in impedance matching transformer
• Hardcase included
• Year: 1971

https://reverb.com/item/10583671-gibson-les-paul-recording-1971

 

[Gorgon90]

Would love to try one but there's too many controls on it for me, at least for live use.

 

[CBHScott]

Thank goodness - back to normal.

These have always been some of the fugliest guitars Gibson ever made.

 

[wok]

Will it do teh brootz?

 

[mongooz]

i've never played one, but i'd like to, just to see what all the gizmos do.

also, what's with the extra "piece" on the control cover, over the second output jack? is that some kind of "repair"?

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

The original Dusk Tiger.

Hard pass.

 

[jelloman]

Were I to buy an actual Gibson Les Paul it would be that one...sans poop knife preferred...

 

[Chad]

meh

 

[Chad]

Thank goodness - back to normal.

Since when has the GPOTD been normal?

Glad to see I was successful last week. 5 guitars everyone would hate

 

[mongooz]

Since when has the GPOTD been normal?

Glad to see I was successful last week. 5 guitars everyone would hate

oh.....is that the objective for GPOTD?

 

[reverend1]

Needs more knobs and switches.

 

[Chad]

oh.....is that the objective for GPOTD?

It was for last week.

 

[mongooz]

It was for last week.

maybe for a lot longer than a week.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

oh.....is that the objective for GPOTD?

The objective for the GPOTD is to show you something ranging from unusual to outlandish. Hopefully with a detailed explanation. If a guitar isn't boring enough for you, well, stop being boring.

 

[bsman]

Give it a hippie sandwich neck, and it would look right in Jerry's hands...

 

[Aahzz]

I understand that the LP Recording was Les's preferred guitar, and they sound great, but they are FUGLY.

 

[wok]

Since when has the GPOTD been normal?

Glad to see I was successful last week. 5 guitars everyone would hate

That’s easy. I think you’d find it much more difficult to find 5 guitars everyone likes cop0

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

That’s easy. I think you’d find it much more difficult to find 5 guitars everyone likes cop0

There is no single guitar everyone likes.

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

There is no single guitar everyone likes.

Au contraire!

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Au contraire!

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1. Butterscotch looks like someone peed on a perfectly good trans white guitar.
2. #needs tort
3. toan is in the 3 barrel bridge.
4. a real tele would have a body mounted neck pickup
5. a real tele would have a truss rod adjustment at the heel