peterleroux wrote:
Last I saw him he still had it, and knew exactly how much it was worth. It had been re-finished at some point, so that might knock a few k off the value, but he wasn't looking to part with it.
It'll be worth a lot. Especially restored to near original condition. There are so few for sale that even modded guitars are worth a lot. I don't think you can get a 'burst of any kind for under $100K.
Chocklit_Thunda wrote:
Ah I follow Gil avidly on the Tele forum! What a master!
It's pretty much impossible to argue that there is any difference at all between Gil's LPs and the originals. There'd be as much difference between two '59 LPs as there is between his and a '59 LP. Still, it's diminishing returns, of course. There are still a lot of factory LPs - Gibson Historics and Asian clones - that have all of the sonic characteristics when paired with the right pickups. And you buy a couple of them for the price of one of his.
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
Great vid! Thanks. Damn! That neck pickup is sweet.
Pete's great in that he can play, knows what he's talking about and can articulate it. Most other demoers only get two of the three. I usually find myself nodding my head a lot to his clips. And smiling. ?
Yeah. He hit the nail on the head. There's this thing about these early PAFs and very accurate copies. I refer to it as a "squeakiness." A kind of grit on the high-end. A lot of great pickups don't have it. Gibson '57 classics are great, but they don't have that. Bareknuckles have that, as do a number of other maker's PAFs.
