gibson

First off, welcome! Second, my favorite guitar is a Les Paul. I have a Gibson Les Paul that I payed about $700 american for it. I've never been a fan of Epiphone, but if you like the way it sounds, that's what really matters.

I think the Epiphone LP is a great guitar for the money. I was talking once to a luthier who was a self-proclaimed Gibson expert, and he said the only real difference is in the pickups. i.e., install Gibson p'ups in the Epi and you've got just as good an axe as a Gibson. I would think overall finish has got to be better with the Gib, and probably wood and material quality, but I've never seen an Epi that wasn't perfect. But then again, I haven't handled but a very few Epis.

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stratman I think you are right because I have played with gibson and there wasn't any difference in matter of playing!The difference was in sound but I think this is something that will be fixed with gibson pick-ups

paranoid android:you bought a new one or second hand?From where ?

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$700US is a helluva deal for a Gibson LP. P A must have got it from some desperate starving musician. Mine cost $1400US.

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Taking away from you for the greater good. (The Audacity of Socialism).

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".-- Winston Churchill

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant" - Omar Ahmad (founder, C.A.I.R.)

If you want to recreate Gilmours sound, good luck with using a humbucker.

If you want to recreat his sounds you really do need single coil pickups.

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I bought my guitar at Guitar Center. It's a very bare bones LP. It's not shiny, and it doesn't have a round top. But it sounds and feels amazing.

Where's Fulghy? Didn't we just do a Les Paul thread recently? About low-cost Epiphones, even?

I have this strong sense of deja vu...

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Activist != Expert.

I think he's at his house. But you're thinking of the thread where he told us he was buying an Epiphone

(i don't hate you why do you hate me)

Don't get me wrong, I love the Les Paul as much as the next guy, but if you want to emulate the Gilmour sound you'd be much better off with a strat (a Fender, not a Mender)

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Mender?
wait, do you mean a mexican?

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Indeed.

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