Why buy a Les Paul?

[iwanarok]

You're all right, to one degree or another! Although, the big family welcome hasn't hit me yet! I can't even get anyone to help me post a pic by my name! I've owned a few Les Paul's over the years, and the GREAT feeling of the conquest never changes! Not from $500.00 to $5,000.00! It's always great! I just bought a 1991 Classic in Vintage Sunburst for $1,300.00! Did I do alright? LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL!!! Seriously! Thanx!

P.S How do I enter a picture by my name?

 

[FrankieOliver]

You're all right, to one degree or another! Although, the big family welcome hasn't hit me yet! I can't even get anyone to help me post a pic by my name! I've owned a few Les Paul's over the years, and the GREAT feeling of the conquest never changes! Not from $500.00 to $5,000.00! It's always great! I just bought a 1991 Classic in Vintage Sunburst for $1,300.00! Did I do alright? LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL!!! Seriously! Thanx!

P.S How do I enter a picture by my name?

First there's a Front Desk with a Rather large Help thread so there's help aplenty for you. Because you're obviously rather too lazy to make the effort to search a little, really not much at all, and because I can identify with your laziness on some level, small, but true, I'll throw you a little spoiler (I don't want to spoil your fun though). Go into your user profile (you -click on your user name at the top right of the page directly in front of your lazy ass self) and then somewhere closer to the west on top of that page that comes up is a tab that says UserCP. Click on that and that's all I'm going to give you...well because I just don't feel like doing this anymore.


And my regrets to the OP for this digression, but this is a great topic and I really appreciated your original comments. That is precisely how I felt when I received Jomo's '07 R9 Lemonburst a few months back. I'd wanted an LP since the mid-seventies, but could never afford one. So thirty plus years later...wow! Indeed, that day when I got that axe, was incredible, surreal, but absolutely wonderful! Thanks.

 

[wumms]

P.S How do I enter a picture by my name?

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[iwanarok]

Aaaahhhhh! I feel welcome now! You crazy teenagers! Hahahaha! Lazy? Heeheee! I just wanted someone to hold my hand! Now I know why you live in the Stratoswherever! You're not able to get along with intelligent human life! I know, I know! You can't get chicks either! I'm having too much fun! Someone stop me, NOW! Just kidding! thanx for the help! Cheers!

 

[iwanarok]

Thanx wumms! Great pic by the way! I made a visit to his graveside back in 2007! Very moving! user cp-avatar! Genuis! Cheers!

 

[iwanarok]

Thanx!

 

[FrankieOliver]

Aaaahhhhh! I feel welcome now! You crazy teenagers! Hahahaha! Lazy? Heeheee! I just wanted someone to hold my hand! Now I know why you live in the Stratoswherever! You're not able to get along with intelligent human life! I know, I know! You can't get chicks either! I'm having too much fun! Someone stop me, NOW! Just kidding! thanx for the help! Cheers!

Your welcome and I'm sorry you can't read because I was being helpful and I won't respond further to you lack of appreciation and respect. You'll get along just fine here...ha ha.

 

[Bing17]

hey u dousch, if u here asking that, then y shouldu buy one, the fact is that i love les paul's and i love les paul, read up and you'll find that without les paul there would be no fender fukin strat, play and find if u like single coil or humbucking pickup for what music you like!!

im wondering since you are here on mlp that you want a lp. so dont spend a fortune if you are not sure, music is music, a friend there when you have no others. a guitar is the one thing that can make you happy when any thing else is too far away. i personlally would recommend a lp. i love them. but \idk you . pick for yourself and your style, create and control.., fuking rock my freind.

Who are you calling dousch [sic]? Obviously you didn't read the post, only the title. I have a few Les Pauls, as noted in my signature. I wasn't asking why I should buy one.

Based on your comment, I'm going to guess you're cross-eyed and toothless so I'll make considerations, give you the benefit of the doubt that you can't read.

 

[X–Ray]

Sorry to quote myself, but the below partly answers the thread's question:
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"At first it was Beck during his Les Paul days, then it was Page.

Honestly, they could have been playing broom sticks and I would have gotten one of those (with the exact number of bristles).

Now, after probably 15+ of them (not broom sticks) over the span of 45 years, it is for the love of them...

By-in-large, my ear loves a Les Paul, they feel "right" in my hands, and the way they hang off of my shoulder feels natural. Weight never an issue for me.

Concurrently, over the years, lots of Telecasters, SGs, Travis Beans, and a Kramer Barretta passed through my hands and wallet.

Had at least 10 Strats – always like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole though.

I would buy one (or two), try to force myself to find the same characteristics as described above about a LP, but never clicked with a Strat for more than a couple months at a time. When desparate to pay the rent – a Strat fir st to be sold...

After a "fire–sale" – I would then go buy another one thinking it would be, "The One" – only it never was.

However, just out of plain hero–worship, I bought a "Jeff Beck" Signature Series Strat about six years ago – finally found, "The One."

Since then, I have been fine-tuning the JB along the way (e.g., hi-pass filter capacitor on the volume control, Graph Tech FerraGlide String Saver Offset Saddles, Goldo Back Stop Tremelo Stabilizer, replaced the "Vintage" Noiseless pups with Suhr Fletcher-Landau Standards with back plate, and most recently, switched over to Fender "Hot" Noiseless – no need to change pups again)...

It took me about nine Strats to find my way to MY Strat.

Now, I feel like a happily married poligamist.

Equally great – but different. Why feel compelled to pick one or the other – pick both if you want. That is like saying you can only have an electric or an acoustic guitar – but not both.

If it is a choice between a Les Paul and a Strat - LP every time.

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But, if is a choice between MY Les Paul and My JB Strat – MY head would explode...

Over the years, the Les Paul itself has inspired me to, "'Bring it on home...'"
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Regardless of being broke, broker, brokest, broke to the point of having to sell a Les Paul or two to make ends meet, or, being fortunate enough to be squared away financially, when it comes to purchasing a Les Paul which feels like "home" to me, price has never been an issue when the value is greater than the cost.

Investment? Never crossed my mind. Re-sale, only in dire-straights. Everything costs too much – that is capitalism.

Why buy a Gibson Les Paul? For many of us, clearly a rhetorical question.