Jeff beck ox blood les paul

[Matt White]

Finally...GIBSON goes for a CLASSIC

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-Custom/Jeff-Beck-1954-Les-Paul-Oxblood.aspx

http://www.gibson.com/Files/aaFeaturesImages2009/jeff_beck_showroom.jpg

CLASSIC GUITAR

http://www.gibson.com/Files/AllAccess/2009/Feature-Images/jeffbeck2.jpg

"un-potted" pickups...what a concept!

[GAR]

Interesting!

I thought Jeff Beck played a Strat or soemthing..

[jhale667]

VERY NICE! :D

The real shocker....Only 8 grand? :lol:


Interesting!

I thought Jeff Beck played a Strat or soemthing..

Never seen the cover of "Blow by Blow", I take it?

[Seshmeister]

Only $8k...

[GAR]

I posted about this a month ago actually. In Cato's Jeff Beck thread.

[chefcraig]

And roughly everything you said was wrong. :tongue0011:

[Matt White]

It's still 4K cheaper than FENDERS Yngwie Malmsteen PLAY LOUD strat.....

[Coyote]

It's still 4K cheaper than FENDERS Yngwie Malmsteen PLAY LOUD strat.....

And WAAY cheaper than the Frankenstein-replica...

[GAR]

And roughly everything you said was wrong. :tongue0011:

For right or for wrong, I said what I was told and youre one step closer to feeling my left..

[jhale667]

For right or for wrong, I said what I was told and youre one step closer to feeling my left..


No threatening posters in here.
If you got called on some bullshit or incorrect info, deal with it. :fufu:

[Diamondjimi]

No threatening posters in here.
If you got called on some bullshit or incorrect info, deal with it. :fufu:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n259/dedge1/oh-snap.jpg

:biggrin:

[Diamondjimi]

I posted about this a month ago actually. In Cato's Jeff Beck thread.


And roughly everything you said was wrong. :tongue0011:


I remember that thread...

http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1320045#post1320045

[rustoffa]

The angle on that shitty wraparound custom shop bridge makes all the difference. Just ask Jeff when he's not too busy fucking up old Mercurys!!!!

[GAR]

The truth of the story is as I said it: and it completely contradicts what the published story details so I'm calling you're ass out to deal with that ChefHag.


The angle on that shitty wraparound custom shop bridge makes all the difference. Just ask Jeff when he's not too busy fucking up old Mercurys!!!!

I didn't like the looks of it till I put my palm edge down on it, now I kinda like it.

It has intonation sidescrews so it's pretty comfortable. But I dont' think it's a TonePros, considered the best in this type bridge amongst those who benchrace Les Paul TV's and Juniors.

[chefcraig]

The truth of the story is as I said it: and it completely contradicts what the published story details so I'm calling you're ass out to deal with that ChefHag.

Really, and what do you propose, pistols at dawn? I really do not know what to tell you, other than you were misinformed. I named my sources (several published reports), you claim to have met a fellow that told you some information. There is nothing more to be gained by getting into a pissing match, nor does the moderator of this forum want (rightly) to see one.

Enough.

[GAR]

I named my sources (several published reports), you claim to have met a fellow that told you some information.

More than "met a fellow", spoke at length with the guy who built these? Yeah? Right?

[sadaist]

I like Jeff Beck, but that guitar is ugly.

[GAR]

It's a thin coat of brown over gloss black, you're right it is weird.

It's also a color Gibson's never done before.

[Matt White]

Awesome color...very rare...not one of those "day-glow" guitars...


looks like a REAL MAN's guitar..........

[sadaist]

looks like a REAL MAN's guitar..........

That would be one of these then. :)

http://www.deanguitars.com/userpics/lib6/wangcaster.jpg

http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3587374405104706.JPG?0.9318327502435143

[Panamark]

It's all Eddies fault !
He started this trend...

I wonder what mindset the people have who actually buy these
special editions ? Do they think that the artist played each
one personally, or that they will be able to play like the artist if they buy one ??
I dont get it.. You can go to the local printers and get a nice sticker with
a name on it for a few bucks....

Fook that, I'll stick to the (no artist name attached) versions
of the same guitars...

[ELVIS]

Interesting!

I thought Jeff Beck played a Strat or soemthing..

Exactly, he's had and played a signature Strat for years...

This cash-grab Les Paul is most likely a piece of shit as are most Gibsons I pick up these days, Custom shop or not...

Some may play well, but the attention to detail is no better than Epiphone, which in many cases I find Epiphone to be of better quality...

I have a lefty Tony Iommi that plays beautifully, has nearly perfect frets, and the finish, thought not perfect, is pretty damn nice for a $400 guitar...


:elvis:

Forget that overpriced garbage...

[ELVIS]

Sadist, are you obsessed with the cock and balls guitar ??

:barf:

[ELVIS]

And why does everything have to be a relic ??

I want mine shiny and new...

I can't wait until that fad fades away...


:elvis:

[ELVIS]

Taken from the Gibson website...

"The best known and most revered of these is arguably Jeff Beck’s Oxblood Les Paul, a guitar from the heart of tone history."

I've lived and breathed guitars my whole life and this is the first time I hear this...

And while i've never been a big Beck fan, i've always read articles about hin whenever they appeared, but that sales pitch bullshit never came up...


:elvis:

[Diamondjimi]

Sadist, are you obsessed with the cock and balls guitar ??

:barf:

It's called the "Wangcaster"... :lol:

That guitar was made for guys like Y.J.M. ...:biggrin:

[sadaist]

Sadist, are you obsessed with the cock and balls guitar ??

:barf:

One pic does not make an obsession. But since you ask, it was a graduation gift.

http://nicedeb.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/disruptive-penis.jpg

[Panamark]

Taken from the Gibson website...

"The best known and most revered of these is arguably Jeff Beck’s Oxblood Les Paul, a guitar from the heart of tone history."

I've lived and breathed guitars my whole life and this is the first time I hear this...

And while i've never been a big Beck fan, i've always read articles about hin whenever they appeared, but that sales pitch bullshit never came up...


:elvis:

I was going to say the same thing, while I'm no way a huge Jeff Beck
fan, I've always seen him with strats ?? Maybe that will be his 16K
offering ?? (the Beck Strat)

[ELVIS]

Fender has had both custom shop and production models of Jeff Beck Stratocasters since the 80's...

http://www.fender.com/customshop/instruments/prod_images/guitars/0150083805_xl.gif

Jeff Beck Custom Shop (http://www.fender.com/customshop/instruments/search.php?partno=0150083805)


:elvis:

[jhale667]

Fender has had both custom shop and production models of Jeff Beck Stratocasters since the 80's...


...Was glad to see them get away from the Lace-Sensor Pickups...and the neck shape got thinner over the years too. :)

:guitar:

Beck's classic "Blow by Blow"-era tone is also considered one of the greatest in rock, and he used the original version of that Les Paul to achieve it. Me, I'm not into the one-piece (seemingly non-adjustable) bridge/tail-piece.

[GAR]

Sadist, are you obsessed with the cock and balls guitar ??

:barf:

huhuhuhhh.. I noticed that too.

[GAR]

And while i've never been a big Beck fan, i've always read articles about hin whenever they appeared, but that sales pitch bullshit never came up...


Guy told me he had to go to England, where it was refinned by some local guitar tech dude, whom they couldn't find anymore. And no knowledge of the paint used, either. That had to be custom mixed to match.

I was really, really surprised to see that thing: one's distressed in the same places, 150 pieces, all presold at $20,000 list. The others are just like-new finish, but the paint is sort of de-glossed, like a satin finish as if it were aged and all the hardware is new. Otherwise it's stock-looking: $8,000 list on that.

I asked is there gonna be an Epi, he says there's only minor talk about it. That's Gib-speak for "it'll be here in the third year like anything else we do." So, hopefully before the Reptillians arrive with the Wormwood comet in 2012 we'll get an Epi JB Paul.

[jhale667]

I've lived and breathed guitars my whole life and this is the first time I hear this...

And while i've never been a big Beck fan


Which I'm imagining is why you're unfamiliar with the Blow by Blow period of his career...? :hee:

Again, people...look at the frickin' album cover...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M9G9J3R2L.jpg

And a pic of him from the tour in 1975...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/210290877_a15abd49ee_b.jpg


:tongue0011:

[ELVIS]

I've heard the album...

Good tone, boring songs...

But "Jeff Beck’s Oxblood Les Paul, a guitar from the heart of tone history."


Gimme a break...Gibson is trying to cash in on anything they can...

$8,000 ??

I hope they go belly up...

Gibson has made more junk than any big name instrument manufacturer...


:elvis:

[GAR]

Yeah, I am as unfamilliar as you. I had an 8track tape of this but it wouldn't play.

I got it second hand completely worn out by the potsmoking hippies who lived in the back house when I was a kid. So I know the pic, dunno the tunes.

[ELVIS]

Makes me wanna pick up the CD, but the guitar can do exactly what it's gong to do...NOT SELL!

It's a terrible move in this economic climate...


:elvis:

[Diamondjimi]

Gibson has made more junk than any big name instrument manufacturer...


I beg to differ. Fender's turned out more firewood ,(see Mexi+China) and are the KINGS of the done to death "relic" craze...

[ELVIS]

I'm no big relic fan, but I do think some of the higher end items from Mexico such as the players strat, the 50's, 60's and 70's classic series (or whatever they call it now) are of very high quality...

50's Classic Players Strat

http://www.fender.com/products/prod_images/guitars/0141102344_xl.jpg


:elvis:

[ELVIS]

I don't own any mexican guitars, but all three of my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amps (blonde, green and sunburst) are excellent, loud as hell for 40 watts and silent as hell when you want them to be...


:elvis:

[jhale667]

I won't own a Mexican or Import Fender due to the fact the parts aren't easily interchangeable. Useless to me. And I agree with DJ that Gibson has a long way to go in keeping up with Fender on the "firewood" releases...

Again, this is still HOW MUCH cheaper than an EVH relic? ;)

[sadaist]

I just had to post these pics I found, so figured I'd do it here. WOW! These are sweet. Love the back of the neck.

http://www.cloud9guitars.org/Summer%20Jam%2008/GOLDBURSTS.JPG
http://www.cloud9guitars.org/Summer%20Jam%2008/SJ009.JPG
http://www.cloud9guitars.org/Summer%20Jam%2008/back.JPG
http://www.cloud9guitars.org/hot/hot.htm

[jhale667]

Nice, but what do they have to do with the Jeff Beck model? ;)

[sadaist]

Nice, but what do they have to do with the Jeff Beck model? ;)

They show that you can spend far less than $8k for a sweeeeet Les Paul.

[GAR]

Goldburst?

Wow.

[ELVIS]

Just what I thought...


:elvis:

[Diamondjimi]

Just what I thought...


:elvis:

Yeah, Gibson Pwns Fender! ;)

[ELVIS]

Thee's nothing like a well made Stratocaster...

And they still make a few nice new models that play and sound great...


:elvis:

[GAR]

Im in guitlust for that goldburst... droolin, E! I'm droolin..

[jhale667]

They show that you can spend far less than $8k for a sweeeeet Les Paul.


Well played. ;)

That goldburst IS bad-ass. :killer: Some of those other ones from the Cloud 9 page and linked Wildwood pages' Chambered ones are nice, too...around the $6K range, still a bit steep...too bad, still want a LP someday...:pullinghair:

:guitar:

[GAR]

I like how one can cross international borders with cocaine in the chambered guitars as carryon luggage.

Sometimes you can even stow the guitar upfront in the pilot's cabin.. so I've heard. I wouldn't really know.. just sayin'..

[GAR]

Thee's nothing like a well made Stratocaster...

Well that's quite true, and you've really got a point there. However there's also nothing quite like a wellmade neckjoint guitar like a Gibson either, when it's done right.

They're two very distinct tones.

You can throw a pickup in a Strat to sound like a Gibson somewhat, but one thing the Gibsons and other glued-in necks can't do is that acoustical pickguard-cavity effect where the resonant body transfers vibration to the pickups in such a way as to detect certain string/finger nuances.

That's only done with acoustic, semi-acoustics or large chambered body styles like the Strat, its probably got the highest acoustical feedback ratio (if there is such a term) to electrical output characterisic of any guitar.

The larger the pickguard-mounted pickups style guitar, the grater this effect. But I must say my 83 flying V had this effect to a grate degree, the pickguard was huge!

[sadaist]

I like how one can cross international borders with cocaine in the chambered guitars as carryon luggage.

Sometimes you can even stow the guitar upfront in the pilot's cabin.. so I've heard. I wouldn't really know.. just sayin'..


Check this Squire Strat out. Looks normal right? Scroll down to 2nd pic.

http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/omniroma114874442510113246_.jpg

http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/10/cocaine-guitar.jpg

"What on earth would make this Stratocaster clone worth well over a million dollars? As you can see in the pic above, the electric guitar was stuffed with lots of cocaine, that's what. We former musicians are well aware that the gigsters always have the best blow, but this guitar player went overboard when he decided to fly from Costa Rica to Rome with his drastically modified Squier ax in tow. Too bad The Man noticed a bit of telltale powdery residue poking out of a conspicuous spot on this git-box. We have another pic of the guitar before it was dismantled, looking perfectly innocent."

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/musical-instruments/guitar-captured-with-enough-coke-stashed-aboard-to-take-us-all-to-electric-ladyland-315457.php

[Diamondjimi]

:smiley-sniffer: Yowza ,Yowza, Yowza!!! :sleazy-smiley:

[Diamondjimi]

Thee's nothing like a well made Stratocaster...

And they still make a few nice new models that play and sound great...


True. I own a '62 Re-issue Japanese Fender Strat that I'd put up against any USA Strat. Like Gibsons , each one is very different.
This Jap fucker I have sustains for days. I wouldn't trade it for any other Strat.
Story goes... a buddy of mine bought it new in the early 90's . Left it stock ,played it for a few years then only leave it lying around the studio for a few more. I found myself glued to this guitar every time I stopped by to hang out. It was light , sustained like nothing I'd played before and had a warm full tone. After pestering him to sell it he finally caved. Went to the ATM , grabbed $400. and the rest is history...

[sadaist]

Strat bodies to me are like VW Bugs...no matter what color or design you slap on them, they still look cool. Very clean lines, smooth & silky. Les Paul is 2nd on my list, but they have a finer line between beautiful & ugly. No middle ground there really. I HATE all the thorny beast "look how metal I am" guitars....

[jhale667]

:smiley-sniffer: Yowza ,Yowza, Yowza!!! :sleazy-smiley:

:rofl:

And for once I agree with Sadaist...lol You can't really go wrong with a decent Strat or Les Paul.

:guitar: