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Title: The Gibson Les Paul Book: A Complete History of Les Paul Guitars by Tony Bacon, Paul Day, Les Paul ISBN: 0-87930-289-5 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: So So Guide To Les Paul
Comment: Depending upon your degree of knowledge about vintage guitars and Les Pauls in particular you may find this book a helpful and informative resource or a complete waste of time.
Tony Bacon has written a lot of books on vintage guitars and guitar collecting. I like his stuff, but he very often gets things just plain wrong. I am certain it has more to do with mistakes in the editing process than anything, but there are some nit-picky errors in this book.
The best treatment of Les Pauls and vintage Gibson electrics that I have seen is A.R. Duchossior's excellent and exhaustively researched book "Gibson Electrics - The Classic Years" (published by Hal Leonard).
This little book is a good introduction to the history of this important model and it has some nice photographs of various iterations of the Les Paul model from 1952 to the date of publication in the late 1990s, but if you're looking for a completely comprehensive guide/history to the Les Paul guitar that is 100% accurate this is not it. Still, if you're a guitar nut (like me) it's a nice little book to have.
Rating: 3
Summary: Decent book for guitar "anoraks".
Comment: The book is rather small and thin -- despite that it contains quite a lot of information but unfortunately much of it is in a dry tabular form. That said, what text there is inside is quite enjoyable. The story of the magical 1959 Les Paul is insightful. They varied tremedously as they were hand made by old ladies for the most part -- so the whole concept of a 1959 specification and 1959 is really somewhat flawed. I also like the pictures: 2 of Jimmy Page's Les Pauls and Gary Moore's "Peter Green Les Paul" (yes that Les Paul, the one with the reversed magnetic in the neck pick-up). Some of these guitars have passed into guitar folklore -- they have become well known characters over the last 43 years or so of their existance. Pity they didn't have an image of Eric Clapton's Les Paul -- the one used on the seminal Beano album -- as it was stolen back in the 60's. [There was a rumor recently -- in Guitar Techniques magazine -- that another London professional, Bernie Marsden, is currently playing that guitar but who knows.]. The book should be brought up to date and some holes filled in - hence only 3-stars (actually more like 3.5) but if you like Les Pauls, I mean really like Les Pauls - then you will probably want to take a look at this.
Rating: 3
Summary: Decent book for guitar "anoraks".
Comment: The book is rather small and thin -- despite that it contains quite a lot of information but unfortunately much of it is in a dry tabular form. That said, what text there is inside is quite enjoyable. The story of the magical 1959 Les Paul is insightful. They varied tremedously as they were hand made by old ladies for the most part -- so the whole concept of a 1959 specification and 1959 is really somewhat flawed. I also like the pictures: 2 of Jimmy Page's Les Pauls and Gary Moore's "Peter Green Les Paul" (yes that Les Paul, the one with the reversed magnetic in the neck pick-up). Some of these guitars have passed into guitar folklore -- they have become well known characters over the last 43 years or so of their existance. Pity they didn't have an image of Eric Clapton's Les Paul -- the one used on the seminal Beano album -- as it was stolen back in the 60's. [There was a rumor recently -- in Guitar Techniques magazine -- that another London professional, Bernie Marsden, is currently playing that guitar but who knows.]. The book should be brought up to date and some holes filled in - hence only 4-stars (actually more like 3.5) but if you like Les Pauls, I mean really like Les Pauls - then you will probably want to take a look at this.
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Title: 50 Years of the Gibson Les Paul: Half a Century of the Greatest Electric Guitars by Tony Bacon ISBN: 0879307110 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 26 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Beauty of the 'Burst: Gibson Sunburst Les Pauls from '58 to '60 by Yasuhiko Iwanade ISBN: 0793573742 Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 31 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: How to Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great!: The Electric Guitar Owner's Manual (Guitar Player Book) by Dan Erlewine ISBN: 0879306017 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Gibson Guitars 100 Years of an American Icon by Walter Carter ISBN: 0972751017 Publisher: Gibson Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Fender Book: A Complete History of Fender Electric Guitars (2nd Ed) by Tony Bacon, Paul Day ISBN: 0879305541 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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