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I ordered both the latest Tears For Fears CD, The Tipping Point, and a much older solo record by Roland Orzabal, Tomcats Screaming Outside last year. Gave them both a good listen recently. Roland is a unique songwriter and musician. His solo work features left and right limits that are far outside the pop sensibilities of Tears For Fears. Good stuff, no matter what. Last year's Tears For Fears record was brilliant. And much of it could have easily sold and found airplay in 1992 or 1995. If you hate deeply personal, introspective, intelligent power-pop, please do not listen to either of these gems. 😗

Welcome, pertietblues. We sure would love to see photos of your good-smelling, 11 year old Les Paul. 🙂

Johnny Cash released American IV: The Man Comes Around in 2002, the year before he died at 71. It was produced by Rick Rubin, and was considered some of his finest work.

IanHenry, Your 2014 Traditional may have the Quick Connect wiring. If so, you can order the spare Quick Connect wire sets from Amazon or Sweetwater, and avoid any soldering on the pots. You'll still have to solder the new Quick Connect harness mid-stream of the wires that come with the Greenie pickup, but that a lot easier to do outside of the guitar, and on your work bench. After that it's plug-and-play. Check and see if your guitar is so equipped. 🙂

Oh man. Rest in peace, guitar player extraordinaire. 🥲

I own exactly two Rolling Stones albums. Sticky Fingers Some Girls That's enough I reckon. And over the years, I have performed certain Stones songs, and on a fairly frequent basis at that. Angie 2000 Man Satisfaction Wild Horses I respect the history and legacy of the Rolling Stones, really I do. I hope the new album is a smashing success, really I do. But I'll wait awhile to see if any of the songs rise to the level of the three listed above. Paul McCartney. KISS. The Rolling Stones. AC DC. Even Neil Finn. All have had every opportunity to knock me out with new releases in recent decades. None have delivered. 🤔

I do like the sparkly burgundy finish on the Rick Beato Special, which is weird for me. (I'm not normally a fan of maroon or reddish finishes.) And I'm in the minority I guess, in that I actually like Rick Beato, and I enjoy most of his videos. But still. Two thousand bones for his signature guitar. Not happening. 😐

I like my 2015 Special a whole lot better. Reasons? * Paid for already * Just one Volume knob and one Tone knob * More attractive finish * No pick-guard * Hipshot locking tuners * No weird names on the truss rod cover The 'Les Paul 100' on the headstock is growing on me. Owning a 2015 Gibson is kind of like owning a 1974 Ford Pinto, and rocking it proud, clean, and shiny. 🙂

No sir. I just dragged a generic image off the interwebs for that photo. I hung up my flying spurs many months ago, and gladly. Here's another generic shot, with a ppt. arrow to show where Beth and I sat yesterday evening. 🙂

Just got home from his make-up show, here at The Orion Amphitheater. A wonderful concert. Great venue, expensive food and drink, and James and his band were really, really great. He's not 100% as far as his vocal powers, but the man is 75 years old. The crowd loved it. Everybody sang along, to nearly every song. 🙂

Good God. Those are not the OEM pickups. One of them (the neck pickup) looks like it was lifted out of a pawn shop Dean. Run away from that guitar. 😐

gerv, There are people on here with a lot more experience with that year and model of Les Paul. Please allow them to respond before you make any hard decisions. I'm just going off of Blue Book values of your guitar versus the Blue Book and Reverb prices on that year and model of Les Paul. Your guitar is much more valuable, in all likelihood. I don't want to see you taking a bath on such a deal is all. 🤔

gerv, Your Larrivée L09 is worth a lot more than the Gibson Les Paul Classic Antique, especially if the Les Paul is a player with some wear. Unless the L09 is the player with wear, and the Gibson is pristine. In which case it's a good trade. 🤔

gerv, Do you live in Europe, the UK, the US, or somewhere else? The resale question comes with a certain number of variables, not the least of which is market/location. 🙂

A very exciting visual feast, that video! But I'm with you on the song. It did not grab me. 😐

I looked up quite a few 1976 Gibson Explorers while researching this question. It seems that Gibson manufactured somewhere in then neighborhood of 1,800 or more Explorers that year. In Black, Natural, and White finishes. About half of those were Limited Edition Explorers. The Limited Edition ones had thick, baseball bat necks, but otherwise nothing special about them. And I cannot find a single one that had numbers pressed into the fingerboard above the 22nd fret. Which leads me to another possibility; Did Gibson allow factory 'seconds' to go out, with sales strictly to trusted vendors, employees and families? If so, maybe those guitars that failed QC might have been numbered like that. I don't know. Maybe I'm just blowing smoke rings here. 🤔

Darned termites. 😔

Q Branch just called. They want their bloody guitar back. 😔

A fantastic and lovely acquisition! Congratulations, good sir. 😀

I just wire orange Skittles in there. Pure, sweet tone. 🙂

Interesting how the two of us could be at polar opposites when it comes to those two songs from the Anthology albums. Me personally, I am quite fond of them. A lot of reasons for that; They include John's actual voice, singing the songs he wrote himself. (Or was nearly finished writing.) The other 3 Beatles played and sang on them to help finish the songs. Were there ELO tinges to the songs? Of course. But it's Jeff Lynne, man. And he admittedly put a lot of work into producing those two songs. We're talking about the days before Pro Tools. Jeff was cutting tape, slowing down and speeding up tape machines, and using old school EQ and sliders to filter out the cassette tape hiss, while preserving the clarity of John's voice. So, on one hand I am adamantly against AI-created 'music'. But I respect the work that goes into producing, playing, and singing actual human music, even if it uses voices recorded many years prior. Here's a question; How did you like (or dislike) Natalie Cole's duet with her father on Unforgettable? 🫠

Great looking tele-shaped strat!! I love the dark natural wood finish too. 🙂

I have a policy of never clicking on a link to anything related to AI. Especially links to AI-created music. I agree with IanHenry that 'creating' new music by computer-simulating John Lennon's voice is an abomination. A heresy. 🙁

Hmmm... It appears that Mr. Bond approves. 🙂