les paul recording

[nikko18]

so i was looking at Gibson's post about les paul, and i thought his guitar was pretty freaking cool. so i looked it up and found out it's a les paul recording. the look pretty cool and are supposed to sound really good too. does any one else think Gibson should make a reissue of them or something, maybe a les paul signature les paul

 

-edit- they also seem to have those weird pickups, but i noticed in the pictures in the Gibson news thin les paul's one has regular humbuckers and different pick guard.

 

-edit- wait it does have the other type of pickups, just a weird pick guard.

[clance]

I read a webpage about one of those. Looks pretty cool, and to me it's looking like Gibson is going back in that direction again with the Robot guitars and Dark Fire.

 

http://www.ntw.net/~w0ui/family_webpage/linkpages/music/music_lespaulrecording.htm

 

Looks like you could get a huge range of tone from a guitar like that.

[SRV-Zeppelin]

As cool as the Robots and Dark Fire are, I'll take a "normal" LP any day... whatever works for you, though.

 

I know I'm a purist. So sue me.

[Murph]

I bought a '72 Les Paul Recording around 1980 in Mesa Arizona. I was playing in a bunch of Country bands, and remember making $90.00 a night, 4 nights a week in Tempe (in 1981) right before I left the Valley of the Sun. I moved to Lake Charles La., and continued playing that guitar. Formed a Band called Double Aught.

 

Moved to Illinois around '94 and at that point (14 years of me gigging) the frets, and finish were gone. Got in a pickle and swapped it off. Wish I had it back, Les himself prefered them, mine was the bomb. I think a reissue is a brilliant idea, but Les had several designs, so I don't know that he would allow it, or how that works.

 

I started a thread months ago about that guitar, and somebody who knows how to do pictures did some.

 

They were really cool though.

 

Best of luck.

 

Murph.

[nikko18]

ahh thats to bad you had to get rid of it D: if i could get on i totally would, im normally a purist kinda guy. i dont really like the robots or darkfail. but the recordins just seem cool. and they dont look like theyre a robot guitar the look like a les paul with a brown finsih, different pickups and control panel. by the way what do the controls do exactly? and what do those special pickups sound like murph?

[Ian Martin]

Meh.

 

I'd RATHER have a Les Paul Signature.

 

Suck it.

 

[Murph]

It had hi/low output, in/out phase, decade (ten notch switch) and that is all I remember. People would say it had low Z but mine didn't. It was a normal guitar with more options. I'm too old to know how to do all the pictures you guys do. Tone wise, it was a Les Paul.

 

I win.

 

God Bless.

 

Murph.

[Murph]

Wait, I remember one more thing. A half fret.

 

Murph.

[SRV-Zeppelin]

I'm too old to know how to do all the pictures you guys do.

 

Well Murph, as long as you can stay young enough to keep posting on these forums, that's good enough for me.

 

Keep up the entertaining thoughts.

 

SRV-Zeppelin

[nikko18]

whats a decade switch do? same with the low z? and what was the deal with those pickups, what was different about them? sorry for all the questions but im curious about them, and i want on.

 

oh and that guitar in the pic ian posted is pretty sweet too. i like how the horns look.

[Craig10119]

whats a decade switch do? same with the low z? and what was the deal with those pickups' date=' what was different about them? sorry for all the questions but im curious about them, and i want on.

 

oh and that guitar in the pic ian posted is pretty sweet too. i like how the horns look.[/quote']

 

I think a decade switch is simply a ten way switch (as opposed to the 3 way switch most les pauls have.

 

A friend of mine used to own one. He liked it, but same as myself, he just preferred the no frills les paul standard, so he traded it for one.

[Eracer_Team]

You CAN have one; it's on flea bay right now. Item number: 180306666747

 

And here's your info on it: http://www.ntw.net/~w0ui/family_webpage/linkpages/music/music_lespaulrecording.htm

[stymye]

I owned a white one back in the late 70's, it was so freakin heavy! but played great.

[lowb5str]

If anyone wants, and if I can find my brochure from the early '70's, I'll try to scan in the LP Recording image and get permission to post it. IIRC, there were two versions, one Low-Z and one Hi-Z.