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Les Paul Collector Tom Wittrock tells the wonderful story how he bought his first Burst, a 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard, for $2000. Everybody called him “the crazy guy who paid $2000 for a used guitar”! In 1972 he met with Billy Gibbons and got infected by the Vintage “Burst” virus. Due to their beautiful sunburst finish, these rare guitars are referred to as “Bursts”. Prices for these Gibson Les Pauls exceed $ 500.000 Enjoy the beauty of “Curly” in close-up shots. Extremely rare interview with the man who knows them all.

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This is a trailer for “The 1959 Burst”, a documentary film from MAXFILMCO. Winner of ‘Best Documentary Film’ at Hollywood FAME Awards and Phoenix Music Awards. Produced by Cynthia Huffman.

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Les Paul Collector Tom Wittrock explains the differences of the Gibson Les Paul Standard 1958, 1959 and 1960. Due to their beautiful sunburst finish, these rare guitars are referred to as “Bursts”. Prices for these Gibson Les Pauls exceed $ 500.000 Enjoy the beauty of “Curly”, “Sandy” and “The Other Woman”. Extremely rare interview with the man who knows them all.

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Great guitar, great pickups, budget bedroom amp.. decent clean tone. Cheers to Tim at Bare Knuckle for my Pups! Update - lots of people are asking my why I use a Marshall MGFX amp, well I only used it in this clip because I had just sold my BluesBreaker and had not got my Fender yet.. I wanted a bedroom amp really cheap and this little Marshall did the job..I will say that I have taken the back off so the speaker can shift air better…

Update May 2009: Gregor Hilden now owns this Les Paul and I gave the amp to my mate

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1959 Gibson Les Paul 00976 Rosie Lea
Santa Monica Guitar Show Phil X Plays a little Randy Rhoads and some Sabbath

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This ex-celebrity owned forty-nine year old Les Paul Standard weighs 9.30 lbs. and has a fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body with a ‘nicely-flamed solid carved maple top. One-piece mahogany neck with a typically thin early ‘60 profile. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 medium jumbo frets. Inlaid pearl trapezoid position markers. Two PAF humbucker pickups with outputs of 7.60k and 9.14k. Original Gibson four-latch brown hardshell case with pink plush lining (8.50). The top has uniformly faded-out to a lovely lemon color and is strikingly unique with the grain being a combination of quarter and flat sawn and a distinctive ‘eye’ on the left-side, yet still having that characteristic fine wavy interlocking figuring across the face. A 100% original example. Ex Howard Leese of Heart and Bad Company.

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http://www.myoldguitars.com 1959 Gibson Les Paul Burst vs 1960 Gibson Les Paul Burst. Rhythm provided by 2006 chambered gold top 57 reissue.

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This ex-celebrity owned forty-nine year old Les Paul Standard weighs 9.30 lbs. and has a fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches and a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Solid mahogany body with a ‘nicely-flamed solid carved maple top. One-piece mahogany neck with a typically thin early ‘60 profile. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 medium jumbo frets. Inlaid pearl trapezoid position markers. Two PAF humbucker pickups with outputs of 7.60k and 9.14k. Original Gibson four-latch brown hardshell case with pink plush lining (8.50). The top has uniformly faded-out to a lovely lemon color and is strikingly unique with the grain being a combination of quarter and flat sawn and a distinctive ‘eye’ on the left-side, yet still having that characteristic fine wavy interlocking figuring across the face. A 100% original example. Ex Howard Leese of Heart and Bad Company.

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Another video just me playing one of my Gibsons instead of my trusted Strat.
Hope you will enjoy this one.
Regards
Henrik

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Original ‘59 Gibson Les Paul, ‘89 Trainwreck Express, ‘68 Marshall 4×12 slant w/G12M 25s. Talking shop with Glen Kuykendall in the recording studio.

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