LP Standard Negative Comments

[drmmrr55]

First off apologies if this is the wrong area.

At seventy I just started playing guitar. I was invited to join a group of guys that jam. I see these guys on a daily basis so they aren't actually strangers. I show up to and they start asking about my guitar. I tell them it's a Gibson Les Paul Standard and It's a lefty. The reaction I got I didn't expect.

Why did you buy this thing? Why didn't you get the Traditional? A lefty? What the hell?

I don't understand. This guitar(to me) is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. To my ears it sounds perfect.

What am I missing?

I'd say anyone who talks to you about your guitar that way needs an a** kicking. Same thing with people who think they know what your tone should sound like, or what pickups you should have in it. It's snobbery, and you should be proud of your LP, no matter what year it was made, or the particular model.

I have a 2016 Standard T, with the pcb electronics, and it sounds/looks/plays incredible, and yet some of my guitarist "friends", insist I need to rip out the circuit board and put in point to point wiring. I just tell them to f*** off, it's my guitar, and I think it sounds awesome the way it is, or I would not have purchased it!

One observation: if you are just starting out, getting a lefty is not a bad thing, because there's not too many people around who will ask if they can play your guitar. I field a lot of requests to play my LP because it's right handed. Of course, the answer is always no, in case it gets broken or damaged. I have enough money invested in it that if it gets damaged, it will be me doing the damage...LOL!

 

[Phil W]

Did you and your guitar and amp produce music that matched their requirements?
If so then job done and you have a FINE guitar so ignore those losers.

 

[timgman]

Let the guitar and your hands do the talking.

 

[PermissionToLand]

Those sound like people I would not want to be involved with. Big red flag for judgmental idiots.

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

Welcome to the Forum!

 

[Heppe]

Sounds like a bunch of jealous a**holes

Congrats to your nice Les Paul, it will serve you very well

 

[JCM900MkIII]

But.. but.. but.. It is "only/just" a standard.
I got similar results when I tried to sell my 2001 Standard after a hand injury.

(In The Netherlands "standaard" means bottom of the pile....)

 

[drmmrr55]

But.. but.. but.. It is "only/just" a standard.
I got similar results when I tried to sell my 2001 Standard after a hand injury.

(In The Netherlands "standaard" means bottom of the pile....)

In the U.S., the Standard is the top of the heap, except for the HP, LP custom, or a custom shop LP r series. Some people here do look down on anything that's not vintage, or has modern electronics in it though, including the LP Standard. It doesn't matter what it looks like, or how it may sound or play...

 

[2manyGuitars]

I would have said "sorry, but when my dad bought it for me in 1959, it was the only model available".

 

[StubbyJ]

Have not read the entire threat, but provided you're left handed it makes perfect sense that you purchased a left handed guitar. Any reasonable human being with .005 of a brain would realize this. If you are right handed and bought the guitar for its looks despite it being a lefty...you may have made better choice. But as mentioned if these guys gave you crap for being a lefty, or the guitar being lefty you may want to move on.

 

[Rockhard]

Strange acquaintances those . As in other fields some ' musicians ' can be very weird . Well just knobs

Nice guitar , go make noise .

 

[freak]

That's a nice guitar.
Your friends suck.

 

[Scozz]

(In The Netherlands "standaard" means bottom of the pile....)

Well apparently they can’t even spell “Standard” properly in the Netherlands,....let alone know what it stands for!!

 

[afireinside]

Love my new standard. And the compound radius neck is amazing! Wish i never sold my 14 standard ocean water......

 

[lpfan1980]

I’m just having a bit of fun this morning @Fillmore!

To the MLP Forum! You’re gonna find a great bunch of guys here who have a plethora of information,.....and we like to occasionally take a jab at each other now and then!

BTW,...what kind of guitars do these fellows have that they feel free to bash Gibson LP Standards?!

Tell those losers this isnt High School or say that you traded in the Gibson for 49 First Act Electrics thatll shut those dweebs up oh and

 

[John Vasco]

OP,
As a lefty, you are part of an elite lefty club that includes Orville Gibson, Jimi Hendrix and Paul McCartney. It is a small, exclusive, club, rather than a club of billions!
(OK, piss-taking on those rightys you jammed with over)

You have a fine lefty.
Being very modest myself, I have some fuckin' superb leftys!
2009 '08 Standard:

1991 Custom:

2009 Custom Shop '57 VOS Junior:

2014 Custom Shop SG/LP Standard:

1976 all-original Deluxe:

So, if anyone says to you: 'Your guitar is the wrong way around', just say to them: 'Wow, I've never heard that said before. Honestly. I've never heard that before'. If they still don't get the irony, tell them to go piss up a rope!

 

[SoManyGuitars]

I’m not sure f this was already posted, but what were THE OTHER GUYS playing?
We’re they sporting 59 bursts or similar?

Just saying they must have had some pretty fine instruments to be dismissive of an LP Standard....

 

[zombiwoof]

I think a lot of LP purists are dismissive of the "modern" quirks of the '08 style Standard, with the different neck profile and all the push-pull stuff and such. That is the only thing I can think of behind the remarks made by his fellow musicians.
Al

 

[Magnets And Melodies]

But.. but.. but.. It is "only/just" a standard.
I got similar results when I tried to sell my 2001 Standard after a hand injury.

(In The Netherlands "standaard" means bottom of the pile....)

2001 Standard's are awesome (I just bought one myself). Whoever was giving you crap for having a 2001 Standard obviously doesn't know anything about Les Paul's. The 2001 and 2002's are pretty sought after.

 

[DarrellV]

That's a nice guitar.
Your friends suck.

Subtle, frank, to the point!

That's what I like about you!