Introduccion
We are going to talk about the les paul guitars some of the best guitars in the market.These guitars beacame one of the most popular guitars between the artists due to its unique sound.Since the first Les Paul went out to the market many other electric guitars appear but none as these excelent guitar
History
It was first sold in1952 along with the Fender telecaster when electric guitars became a public craze.
In 1951, the initial rejection became design collaboration between the Gibson Guitar Corporation and Les Paul. It was agreed that the new Les Paul guitar was to be an expensive, well-made instrument in Gibson's tradition. Although recollections differ regarding who contributed what to the Les Paul design, it was far from a market replica of Fender models. Since the 1930s, Gibson had offered electric hollow-body guitars, such as the ES-150; at minimum, these hollow-body electric models provided a set of basic design cues to the new Gibson solid-body, including a more traditionally curved body shape than offered by competitor Fender, and a glued-in ("set-in") neck, in contrast to Fender's bolt-on neck joint design.
The importance of Les Paul's contributions to his Gibson guitar design remains controversial. The book "50 Years of the Gibson Les Paul" limits Paul's contributions to two: attention on the trapeze tailpiece, and a preference for color. Paul preferred gold because it looks expensive, and a second choice of black because it makes your fingers seem to move faster on the box, and makes you look classy.
Models and variations
Originally there were two models of Les Paul guitar: the regular model (nicknamed the Gold top), and the custom model which offered upgraded hardware and a more formal black finish.
The Gibson also features a variety of colors, such as Wine Red, Ebony, Classic White, Fire Burst, and Alpine White.
Famous Les Paul guitar players
Slash: Guns N’ Roses’ former guitarist Slash is probably best known for three things: his messy curly black hair, signature hat and sunburst Gibson Les Pauls. In fact his Les-Paul is responsible for some of the most popular guitar riffs of all-time: “Welcome To The Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine,”
Jimmy Page: Led Zeppelin’s Page has created so many classic rock riffs that it’s hard to even know where to start with the guitarist’s list of accomplishments. However he couldn’t have done it alone without the sound of his Les Paul, with it he crated songs like “Whole Lotta Love” and “Black Dog” and helped add a welcome dose of heaviness to the classic rock formula.
Randy Rhoads: As the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne, Rhoads was the first guitarist to mix classical guitar with a heavy metal sensibility to create a unique fusion of music that still sounds groundbreaking today.
Eric Clapton: Clapton experimented with different styles of guitars through his four-decade career, his time with John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and the Yardbirds were both defined by his use of the Les Paul. It’s remarkable how many tones he was able to take of his favorite instrument as he channeled the ghosts of classic delta Blues acts and played them into a rock context.
Joe Perry: His most recognizable characteristic is the Les Paul that hangs around his neck when he performs with Aerosmith. Perry is such a Les Paul enthusiast that in addition to have played nearly every variation of the axe for the past 30 years he also has his own Custom model. He has a collection of over 600 guitars.
Peter Green: When you have a musical superstar like B.B. King saying things like “He has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats,” you know you’re doing something right. King was talking about Fleetwood Mac guitarist Green whose axe of choice was incidentally a 1959 Les Paul. The secret to Green’s tone was the fact that a magnet of his neck pickup was reversed, creating a unique effect. However, if Green wasn’t such an inventive and original player we highly doubt he would be as celebrated as he is today.
Bob Marley: Marley is unquestionably the most influential reggae player ever and it’s no secret that he often utilized the Gibson Les Paul to help craft his sound. While most of the other guitarists in this list used walls of distortion to bring out Les Paul’s inner beast, Marley utilized clean tones and upstrokes to develop his own signature sound and proved that the Les Paul isn’t just one of the heaviest-sounding guitars in existence but it’s also one of the most versatile.
Steve Jones: As guitarist for the Sex Pistols, he is responsible for presumably the greatest punk album of all-time, “Never Mind The Bollocks”. His aggressive guitar sound gave birth to a whole new era of music — and out of all the guitars in the world, Jones decided that the Gibson Les Paul would be the best way to accomplish his pioneering new sound. Now days this former icon is just one of many influential guitar players to have his own version of the Les Paul, which will hopefully motivate new players to impose their own musical wave.
