jimmy lee

as i purchased mine in new 1990, pre-Musicians Friend as far as i am aware, and at a Sam Ash, it might be that they did runs of them periodically. all i can say is i've not seen another in person, and this is the first i have heard of others. have a sense they are not terribly common...

also just found this: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/88227-1990-gibson-les-paul-standard-with-gold while the statement that it was a custom order seems inaccurate, this was what the guitar looked like, stock, when i purchased it. pax, jimmy

just popped your serial number into that guitar dater i wrote about. here's what came back: Your guitar was made at the Nashville Plant, TN, USA June 26th, 1990 Production Number: 121 so, exactly 2 weeks younger than mine. enjoy it... pax, JL

also just remembered that there are two clips on YouTube from about 16 months ago where i'm playing it. improvs with one of my very favorite partners in crime, the estimable m Miss Mazz Swift, filmed at Hoboken Recorders by Jolil Ula. this was with the SD '59 in the neck and the SD Custom Custom in the bridge, as well as prior to the electronics upgrade: pax

hello all. i also have one of these, serial #91630451, and this is the first i've heard/seen of another. found this page: http://www.guitardaterproject.org/gibson.aspx . dated it to June 12, 1990, 151st guitar made in Nashville that day. i bought it at Sam Ash on route 110 in Huntington, NY in, i believe, August 1990. gold hardware, cream pickguard, cream rings, double cream coils. i've had it since. have had lots of different PUPs in it (SD '59 in the neck, PRS Deep Dish 2 & SD Custom Custom in the bridge), now having settled on SD Antiquities in both positions, as well as upgraded electronics. no longer possess the pickguard, the rings or the original PUPs. a few months after i acquired it i tracked two cuts on Freedy Johnston's album "Can You Fly" with it: "Sincere" & "We Will Shine". on "Sincere" it's the main hooky, riffy part, on "We Will Shine" the only electric. don't remember if i'd swapped out the PUPs by then or not. pretty sure i was straight into some form of Blackface at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ. as i wrote above, this is the first i've heard of another one. it's the guitar i've had the longest and i remain very fond of it. it's a fine instrument and i'm happy to know someone else is enjoying it's sibling. now, i'm gonna go play it! pax...