72' Recording.....

[Murph]

This new case of Gibson gas I've aquired has reminded me of the 72' Recording Les Paul I gigged with from about 1981 until about 1995.

 

Mesa, Phoenix, Tempe, Apache Jct. Those were the days. Then to Lake Charles Louisiana, and then to Illinois.

 

Wore the frets off, hooked up with a Country band, and swapped it off.

 

Did the "DOUBLE AUGHT" cd, (cdbaby.com) with the 79 SG and the Strat. Sold the Strat.

 

My 72' Recording had a regular 1/4" jack. People say they had loZ pickups, but mine was like normal. Had the decade, attenuation, 1/2 fret, ect, but the pickups seemed normal to me. Wish I could do pictures but can't, and haven't owned the guitar since before digital.

 

Funny those dudes have like a zero following, when I saw Les Paul himself playing one once.

 

Best of luck.

 

Murph.

[cudamax2343]

LOOK WHAT I FOUND FOR SALE.http://used.guitarcenter.com/usedgear/details.cfm?listId=104753220

[Murph]

Yep. That's it. I'm not at all sure mine was a 72'. Someone just told me it was. I traded a Tangent mixer and some $ for it in Tempe Az around 80'/81'. Mine had the stock tailpiece. In/out phase, high low output, decade. Pretty cool rig.

 

Thanks for the memories!

 

Murph.

[cudamax2343]

You bet-cha and those are real sweet.

[stunr55]

OMG!!!! A 72 ft. Les Paul ... if it ever fell over it could kill us all!!!!

[surfpup]

LOL - reminds me of the 18 inch Stonehenge in Spinal Tap.

[retrosurfer1959]

any particular bars or bands you played induring those years, Theres a few AZ players here that were probably bouncing around those same years playing places like Minder Binder, Froggy Bottoms, the Outpost, Unkle Monkeys....

[stunr55]

OP must have a 130 ft. arm span to play that thing!!!

[Tim Plains]

I saw a guy play a LP Recording once...

 

[Murph]

Hey retro, one of my best friends Dad built Minder Binders. He was the contractor, and when he finished up, he stood on his head on that "dog house" on the top. He was a total nut and a helluva good guy.

 

Man, I lived in East Mesa, meaning Apache Jct., and played all those clubs during the mid 70's to early 80's. Lucky Nugget (it burned down after I moved to Louisiana), Johnny Below Zeros, The Rib Eye, which later became the Cactus Club, The Brass Bell, The Cotten Ball in Queen Creek, I remember playing a club called Harry O's around 20th/21st, whatever and Van Buren and the hookers would actually come in and work the club.

 

I remember a band in those days called "Loosely Tight", which I alway thought was a great name, and they were damned good as I recall. I think they started out being called Ched, and put it together in a storage rental place.

 

KDKB had a morning dj in the 70's called Toad Hall, and it was an album music station back then. Later sold out. I think Bill Compton started the business on a shoestring and ended up getting things named after him.

 

There was a guy named Willie G Carmichael working at Milanos Music in Mesa when they took on Peavey, and all became millionaires.

 

I need a beer.

 

Murph.

[retrosurfer1959]

yep I remember most of those places. Minders was a hoot full of hippies and co-ed my kind of place used to bounce between sets while going t ASU, I played a biker bar in AJ called "the office" i think gettin old now and it was the 70's rough bar if you took a break you had to carry our gear off or they'd throw bottles at it. Only place generally rougher was some of the Camp Verde and Prescott bars during the 4th of July and summer weekend those places didn't even call it a bar fight unless guns were involved.

[cudamax2343]

THAT'S STILL A GOOD AREA TO PICK-UP NICE HOOKER'S.

[retrosurfer1959]

Well Hookers at least no so sure about nice Hookers!

 

Loosely Tight boy thats a name out of the past that was the Livingston brothers if I remember correctly Danny and Dino or something close to that, cut a few songs in heavy rotation then cut one album that dropped to pretty good local sales and big on KDKB radio than they kind of faded away

[Murph]

Yep. I think it was Dino. "The Office" was next to "The Motorcycle Shop" as I recall, and it was A Bandito hangout. I was raised with those Banditos, they were friends and family. Used to be massage parlors all over East Mesa back then. I left in 82, then went back for a few days in 89 for a funeral. Haven't been back since.

 

Best of luck.

 

Murph.