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The first model, simply called the "Gibson Les Paul", was released in 1952. This style has since been retroactively named "The Goldtop", as the model came only in one finish: an old gold solid paint, with two P-90 pickups and nickel plated hardware. In 1954, the Gibson Les Paul Custom was added to the model line. The Custom featured a solid ...
Freddie King used a Goldtop Les Paul with P-90 pickups. Also used an ES-355 in some live performances. [79] Guy King Plays a 1982 Gibson ES-335TD Natural and a 1982 Gibson ES-335TD Sunburst. Mark Knopfler Played a 1979 Gibson Les Paul Standard Reissue '59 on the Dire Straits song 'Money for Nothing'. He also owns a 1985 Gibson Les Paul Standard ...
The 1952 Gibson Les Paul was originally made with a mahogany body, a mahogany neck with a rosewood fretboard, two P-90 single coil pickups, and a one-piece, 'trapeze'-style bridge/tailpiece with strings fitted under (instead of over) a steel stop-bar, [note 1] and available only with a gold-finished top, giving rise to the moniker "Gold-Top".
A friend of Buchanan's, however, said that Buchanan was playing a Gibson Les Paul at the time, and traded it for the '53 Tele. [21] One of Buchanan's Telecasters was later owned by Danny Gatton and Mike Stern, who lost it in a robbery. [22] He was reported using a 1956 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Reissue for some time.
1956 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (with 'Soapbar' pickups) 1959 Gibson Les Paul Flametop (with PAF pickups) 1962 Fender Stratocaster (Fiesta Red) 1962 Gibson SG; Matsumoto is also an avid collector of older guitar amplifiers, as well as an accomplished bass player.
Gibson began switching from P-90s to PAFs first on the company's lap steel guitars in 1956, and then on electric guitars debuted at the NAMM Convention in 1957. [1] [6] Les Paul Goldtops and Customs were the first solid-body electric guitars to receive PAF humbuckers, and Gibson's ES Series were the first hollow/semi-hollow designs to receive ...