RaysEpiphone Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I stumbled across this video today and don't know if this guitar player is playing a Les Paul or what. The body shape looks sorta different to me. Or is it just a trick of the light? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDW9b_ejfI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADjOrudSntk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trvlr Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 not sure about the guitar but great video - I now know where Latka of Taxi fame got his bit but looks like an LP to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Jan Akkerman played a Les Paul Personal, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Jan Akkerman played a Les Paul Personal, I believe. Yes - the guitar in the vid is his modded LP Personal. He later had a Framus Jan Akkerman model but it never quite worked - story here: http://www.tdpri.com/forum/other-guitars-other-instruments/228893-when-signature-models-go-wrong-framus-jan-akkerman-model.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveg Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Jan bought a NEW Les Paul Personal back in the early 70's and used it for a while in its original Low Impedance form. There is a video which shows the guitar and its original lead/transformer with the amp he was using at the time. Over the years it acquired a new body cap and firstly two then three humbuckers. It lay idle for long periods between modifications. The last I heard of it the neck had been broken in an accident. LP Low Impedances Users Pics Scroll down DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaysEpiphone Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 Ah, so its a special made Les Paul then. I knew the body was different, wounder how it plays? Gibson still make them I wounder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buliwyf Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 Wow what a serious wicked flashback,Iv'e never seen Focus play anything live.Big time thanks RaysEpiphone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Have heard this tune a million times. Strangely enough, I have never seen it performed. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks Ray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 What the MF was that?! He yodled but...it was awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveg Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 Ah, so its a special made Les Paul then. I knew the body was different, wounder how it plays? Gibson still make them I wounder? See this thread, particularly the last page. http://forum.gibson.com/index.php?/topic/99362-gibson-low-impedance-guitars-club/ DG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaysEpiphone Posted May 20, 2013 Author Share Posted May 20, 2013 What the MF was that?! He yodled but...it was awesome! I think this was about what I was thinking the first time I heard it back in the mid 1970's. Some one I knew had the LP and didn't like it much as the rest of the song's are quite tame and odd, I was 13 in 76 so it may have been the first time I really listened to a full album that wasn't popular main-stream stuff. And your welcome quapman and buliwyf, I alway's dug these weird songs from the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVIL Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 What the MF was that?! He yodled but...it was awesome! Made me want to sniff cocaine from a clog! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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