One of the things I genuinely love about Les Pauls is that there are separate volume and tone controls for each pickup, and a toggle switch so you can choose between either or both, really cool if one is turned down completely.
So….
What happens to that wiring, that control, when a third pickup is added to the mix, apparently just because ‘it’s one better, innit’ is that middile pickup paired with bridge, neck, always on?
Yngwie Malmsteen inadvertently demonstrating how it doesn't matter what you sound like. It's the amp and the speakers.
Les Paul Said He Gave Gibson All of His Secrets for This Guitar, but Why Didn’t It Sell?! | GuitarPlayer https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/gibson-les-paul-recording
It Was Just a Matter of Time
May 8, 2021. The musical nerd moment I lived today has been inevitable since May 8, 2021. On that day, my 50th birthday, my beloved bride bought me the best birthday present ever. A new guitar. A Gibson Les Paul Standard 50’s. Since that day I have been living the life of a glutton who owns two, that’s right, two Gibson Les Pauls. I’ve had a Les Paul Custom since 1990, and now I have two. From that day on it has been inevitable that I was going to be a total nerd and record some music with the guitar parts doubled using both Les Pauls together.
Today became that day, of course. I put rhythm guitars onto five RPM Challenge songs. In each case, the guitar coming out of the left speaker is my Les Paul Custom and the guitar coming out of the right speaker is my Les Paul Standard.
Yeah… nerd.
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Saw that Bob Dylan posted this Eddie Van Halen Les Paul Tribute over on IG. Eddie would've been 70 years old. 
Hadn't ever seen this performance. Exciting to see Eddie play with a different band. Keytar from Miami Vice Theme writer Jan Hammer and bass from the great Tony Levin (of Peter Gabriel and John Lennon fame). This rocks.
El TO-DO de hoy, poner a funcionar el setup de grabacion de #audio en #linux, juntando reyes de tres años. Despues de muchos intentos al final m'ha salio. Pero la cancioncita de probar se me ha quedao metia en la chirimoya XD ...y por eso el universo me habia encerrado esta mañana las cosas de hacer ruido en el armario.
Friday
It’s Friday. One week from today I am going to be writing about how I only have an eight hour work day standing between me and a full week’s vacation. I am already hyper focusing on it. Crazy.
I just watched the season two finale of Silo. It was very good. I sort of screwed things up though. The show is based on a series of books. A few weeks ago I got tired of waiting to see what was going to happen on the show so I started reading. I’m going to finish the third and final book probably this weekend. When the super confusing twist happened in today’s episode I knew what it was and I knew it was coming. I spoiled myself. I don’t care though because the books are good, the show is good, and the books and the show are just different enough that I can still feel engaged with both.
This week I also watched the season (series?) finale of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew and I am down to the second season (series?) finale of The Alienist which I am enjoying a lot even though it’s creepy as hell. Fortunately season two of Severance came out today. I’ll watch that tonight before bed, I think. Silo is over, but I still have a Friday show to watch out for. That’s nice.
Last night I watched a video on the youtubes. Five Watt World’s Short History of the Les Paul Deluxe. My first “real” guitar was a Les Paul Deluxe. I didn’t learn how to figure out the date on a Les Paul until years later so I have no idea what year it was made. I think it was very late 70’s or very early 80’s. I bought it in 1988 at Russo’s Music in Lowell, MA. All of the knobs had cracked off of it and I never replaced them. I was a kid. I didn’t have the money or even the know how of how to get replacements that would fit. It also had a nasty gash in one of the frets, and I seem to remember that one of the inlays was coming unglued. I didn’t care. I loved that guitar. I adored that guitar.
On a Sunday night/Monday morning in November or December (pretty sure it was December) of 1990 it was stolen out of my car. That was pretty much the end of the world for me. I have never really recovered from the violation of it all. I bought my Les Paul Custom a short time later and that is still my number one guitar… but some days I really find myself missing that Deluxe. I would have loved to have taken it to a good shop and had all of the negatives fixed up. It would have been epic, mini-humbuckers and all.
Watching this video made me feel all the feels. Steve Hackett, Pete Townsend, and me. All of us, Les Paul Deluxe veterans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWhGc6jxaw
Okay. Time to stop farting around and get ready for work. Happy Friday, everyone. The weekend awaits.
My collection of three guitars is complete: Les Paul, Stratocaster, and SG. They were built entirely from scrap wood left over from previous projects.
I hope you like it.
cc: @diy @makershour
It's done now! To create better contrast, I decided to paint the background. It was important to me to preserve the wood's texture.
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For this accessory, I wanted something old and worn. I still had an old vegetable box, which I’ll use as the background.
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What should I do with all the small pieces of scrap wood? Build a small accessory .
Scale: 1:4
Next step: I will build a frame and add background lights 
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For #KDE / ( #Wayland ? i dunno what i'm talking about half the time... whatever this is.. . it's not #Plasma i don't think )
It's a Gibson, but it's not a #LesPaul @jloc0@sdf.org i dunno! you got any ideas? LOL.
But yea @zombiewarrior told me to use Flameshot -- which is INDEED awesome. sits there in the tray, like a good boy should.
Then, pop the clipboard into this one, Kolour Paint - which seems suspiciously like a #KDE named app, but this is #Cinnamon -
Oh? I'm just playing! I know that much. ..
don't it?
tee hee...
@jloco
Honestly? The entire effort is REW EEENED now. like stewie?
'cause i was just trying to share w/ everyone that even I find my insanity ... at least makes me grin, as i shake my head in disbelief.
:ahem:
"How to Guides:
Is you makin' movies?"
i swear i talk to myself. Hey. #COVIDtimes make me crayzeee ... like #FlapJack told #captainknuckles after he'd been drinking sea water.
https://youtu.be/keuY1NP3czk?si=iMGsXrzjIkmwFEOp
Also, for the cartoon lover in you, Happy Holidays, because for some reason i think he likes cartoons. then again...
dain bramage
#gibsunday with a real burst. This is a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, named “Louis.” Easily the lightest LP I’ve ever played. Thx to blackmagicguitars for letting me experience it 
Hear it here 
https://youtu.be/M1fz6aPGEuI
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I put rhythm guitars onto five more songs this morning. My schedule is all topsy turvy and I’m not sure if I will be able to do anything more today, but five songs worth of guitar tracks is a nice haul for the morning.
I am actually out of songs that need rhythm guitars now. I still have two that need leads, but we’ll be getting to those soon enough. I want to write some lyrics tonight so that I can have at least five songs ready for a car vocals in the morning.
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