Marshall Paul

Out Of The Blue - The Angels

Moonlight Swim - Elvis Presley

Moonlighting - Leo Sayer

The Who..."Behind Blue Eyes".

La Luna - Sarah Brightman

Shadow Hand - Bruce Hornsby & The Range

Shadow Boxer - The Angels

Your point of this type of guitar "enhancing your options" is probably the best way to describe where it fits in the bigger scheme of things. It's not really supposed to be your main 'go to', it's there to 'add to'. And if you have the opportunity to aquire and keep one in your arsenal, then so much the better I think. It's like me having the mandolin and autoharp. Without them, there would be some songs we wouldn't be able to do. Same as the 1275's. Any clearer now? (as mud! lol).

G'day Mate, how are you. Love your forum name, sounds like the name of a radio station! " and, welcome back to WVN Les Paul on 89 FM on your dial, where the hit's just keep on comming...!"). I own two 1275's and love both. I have a white Gibson EDS-1275, and a cherry Epi G-1275. Both excellent. The Gibby I have modified to the Don Felder way. I had one of the tone pots removed and a stereo 1/4 jack installed there. That's wired for the upper neck. The lower mono 1/4 jack controlls the lower neck. The remaining tone pot is now the Master Tone for all. The vols remain the same. The upper pups are nickel/chrome covered 490R/498T's (standard alnico sisters fit). The lower pups are double black open coil 490R/498T's. Claw distance is normal factory standard. The tuners I changed out to Schallers, upper and lower. Reason being is I used to find it hard to grip a Kluson tuner for say high E/B/G on the upper without my fingers bumping the tuners on low E/A/D on the lower neck and knocking them out of tune by accident. A real pain, so I changed them to something a little more managable. I keep this git both upper and lower in standard 440. The hardware I changed out to all chrome (purely astetic reason. Don't like gold). The Epi I have also had changed to the Felder way, same as above. Even the pups. Differences are, first off, the claw distance. This one is longer, the Jimmy Page way. Came that way in fact. Pagey swears it increases the sustain. He's Pagey, who am I to argue (lol). And the tuning is different. The upper I keep 440 but the lower I keep in EADADE. Except when I play "The Rain Song", then it's DGCGCD. And any weird or one of de-tunings that are required, I use this cherry. Like "Gold Dust Woman", DADGBD (double drop D). The kind of music I use these for is basically 70's style Classic Rock. The usual suspects are in the set-lists. "Hotel California", "Stairway To Heaven", Gold Dust Woman" etc (eagles, zep, mac). As far as being neck heavy and all, I'm afraid there's not a whole lot you can do about that, nature of the beast. You'll notice when Don and Jimmy play theirs, they tend to raise the neck a little more than their normal 6 strings. That sort of helps a bit, makes it a bit more managable. After a while, you don't really notice it that much. I run two leads out of both of mine too and that does have a tendancy to bring the weight back a bit too. Also, the Epi is a little lighter than the Gibby by about 1.5lb. Don't know how. And lastly, dislikes. Well, I really struggle to think of anything I actually disilike about them. It's an exceptional design, both very well made, they sound as expected (beautiful), the only bummer being obviously the weight. But, like I said, you do get used to that. And the upper/lower selector switch. Keep an eye on it. It sits right about where your right elbow is and you can accidently knock it from one neck to the other without realising it, or it's too late. And also, the first point that rct made is very true too. Not much more I can add to that except I hope that helps some. Like I said before, I just love mine, I wouldn't be without them anymore. They're worth having. I think your going to love yours too! And, patience is a virtue. Makes it all that much sweeter when it finally arrives! lol I think you've made a good choice mate. Oh God, I hate being serious! (lol)

Preacher In The Ring (pt. 1&2) - Bruce Hornsby & The Range

Goin' Down To Mexico - ZZ Top

Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac

Willie The Wimp (and his cadillac coffin) - SRV

Waitin' For The Bus-Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top

Closer To Heaven - APP (sorry, having an Allan day today! lol).

Time - App

Some Other Time - APP

Old Flame - Thin Lizzy

This Old Heart Of Mine - Rod Stewart

Dance Sister Dance - Santana

Come On And Dance - Steve Miller Band

I'm not letting Sarah read this one, she already has too many ideas as is! LOL!

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ("now all the vampires, walking through the valley")

One Day I'll Fly Away - Randy Crawford

Gone Surfin' - Gary Hoey