Slash's Signature Guitar's

hyn-zie

http://www.gibson.com/Slash/Epiphone/SlashLesPaulStandardPlusTop/

Just put off a deposit on the epiphone version, very pricey but i played it and fu@k me it was a good guitar, i'm looking for other views on what people think, they are a limited edtion but i really think the guitar series is good!!! They should keep making them like the Zakk Models

Duff_Man

dunno bout the epi but i played the gibson one and i thought it was muck. frets kept catchin my fingers and the fret buzz sucked. didnt sound the best either! id buy a standard over the slash one any day.

darrenw5094

From 1988 to 2008, Slash’s Les Pauls Through the Years
Although Slash was relying on a battery of Les Pauls by the time he recorded Guns N’ Roses’ monumental debut Appetite for Destruction in 1987, he got his most famous guitars the year after. Just before the band embarked on the two-year tour that made stars of them, Slash contacted Gibson and ordered the pair of Les Pauls that would be his favorites for years to come.

Considering the pedigree of Les Paul players, it’s not surprising that the then-23-year-old chose that particular guitar.

Not sure how true that above statement is from the Gibson website.
Slash's Les Pauls were not even made by Gibson.....replicas, probably better quality.....

hyn-zie

darrenw5094 wrote: »

From 1988 to 2008, Slash’s Les Pauls Through the Years
Although Slash was relying on a battery of Les Pauls by the time he recorded Guns N’ Roses’ monumental debut Appetite for Destruction in 1987, he got his most famous guitars the year after. Just before the band embarked on the two-year tour that made stars of them, Slash contacted Gibson and ordered the pair of Les Pauls that would be his favorites for years to come.

Considering the pedigree of Les Paul players, it’s not surprising that the then-23-year-old chose that particular guitar.

Not sure how true that above statement is from the Gibson website.
Slash's Les Pauls were not even made by Gibson.....replicas, probably better quality.....

It was true . . . . . . . . . he pawmed off his original Les Paul (And His Favourite) for some heroine, he was left with a warlock and a mockinbird in which he couldn't recover his true sound, he ended up gettin a copied version but exact replica's of the Les Paul which went on to be the VOS version if my Memory serve's me right

darrenw5094

There is even a bootleg video of GNR live from about '85 or '86 of Slash with BC Rich Warlock guitars.......disgusting.....;)

hyn-zie

Yeah . . . . . . . . . it was this big fe@king red yoke, don't rate them at all, he ended up getting a model of b.c. rich i don't know if its a signature one or not he use's for "Suker Train Blues" live sometimes,

darrenw5094

That would be the BC Rich Mockingbird.......used on 'You Could Be Mine'
Pretty cool i might say.....

The vid i'm talking about is way back to the mid 80's.....it was definately a Warlock/bottle opener.

Bonzo-Reborn

im not saying this is true but theres a shop in clonmel claiming to have the only slash sig in the country for retail...strange considering hearsay is the owner also owns john palmers in waterford

darrenw5094

Having a '93 Gibson Les Paul Standard and a 2005 model, i am now thinking that the Slash sig model is a savage waste of cash. I am one of the biggest Slash and GNR fans, but i'm not having that price tag. The current crop of standard Les Pauls are just average at best anyway.

Considering that the Gibsons he used were never even made by Gibson, it seems a rip off. I think you would be better buying a good second hand one from the early 90's that has the same colour as Slash. Then you could change the pickups to the exact Seymours that he used.

Red Sleeping Beauty

darrenw5094 wrote: »

Slash's Les Pauls were not even made by Gibson.....replicas, probably better quality.....

WRONG

Slash has 2 Les Pauls (built to '59 specs) which were built in the late 80's when Gibson didnt do replicas. That's all, his main number one guitar for years was a 1987 Gibson LP Standard.

hyn-zie wrote: »

http://www.gibson.com/Slash/Epiphone/SlashLesPaulStandardPlusTop/

Just put off a deposit on the epiphone version, very pricey but i played it and fu@k me it was a good guitar, i'm looking for other views on what people think, they are a limited edtion but i really think the guitar series is good!!! They should keep making them like the Zakk Models

Where are you buying it from and for how much ? They were about 700 ish on Dolphin Music , shops in town were charging a grand.

darrenw5094

His gibsons were hand made by a private luthier in California. Nothing to do with the Gibson company.
Or so he told the world in a recent interview in 'Total Guitar'....

Red Sleeping Beauty

darrenw5094 wrote: »

His gibsons were hand made by a private luthier in California. Nothing to do with the Gibson company.
Or so he told the world in a recent interview in 'Total Guitar'....

2 of his Les Pauls that he used were made by luthiers that weren't employed by gibson but that had the gibson headstock decal on them. one of them was made by Max Derrig and bought by some studio exec and given to slash, i dont know the story of the other one!

However

This does not mean that "Slash plays fake gibsons". It means that 2 of his guitars were not made by Gibson employees , the rest of his guitars came from gibson factories.

darrenw5094

I never used the term 'fake' and also said they were probably better quality.:D

Did Max Derrig wear a balaclava too, or was he human....:D

Red Sleeping Beauty

darrenw5094 wrote: »

I never used the term 'fake' and also said they were probably better quality.:D

Did Max Derrig wear a balaclava too, or was he human....:D

Oh right, fair nuff, sorry , it's late and i'm not with it. I dont know if they'd have been "better quality" but from what I understand they were built to '59 specs (the 59 les paul being one of the most coveted) and at the time Gibson weren't doing anything relic'd or replicated from their older days.

hyn-zie

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Where are you buying it from and for how much ? They were about 700 ish on Dolphin Music , shops in town were charging a grand.

Yeah I got Mine in Goodwins for €849.00, Waltons were selling it for €999.00, rip off merchants!!!

Dord

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

2 of his Les Pauls that he used were made by luthiers that weren't employed by gibson but that had the gibson headstock decal on them. one of them was made by Max Derrig and bought by some studio exec and given to slash, i dont know the story of the other one!

However

This does not mean that "Slash plays fake gibsons". It means that 2 of his guitars were not made by Gibson employees , the rest of his guitars came from gibson factories.

Sorry but you're wrong there. Yes, Slash had two guitars that were made by luthiers yet had Gibson decals. One was made by Peter "Max" Baranet, and one by Chris Derrig. There is no Max Derrig.

subzero12

hyn-zie wrote: »

Yeah I got Mine in Goodwins for €849.00, Waltons were selling it for €999.00, rip off merchants!!!

in fairness even €849.00 is allot for an epi
you could have just gotten http://www.thomann.de/ie/epiphone_lp_standard_plus_vsb.htm
and got the duncan pups and a set of http://www.thomann.de/ie/schaller_st6kn_mechanik.htmthen you have the virtually same guitar.

darrenw5094

If you are going to spend that cash on a Epiphone...this is where you go.
http://www.thomann.de/ie/epiphone_lp_std_plus_elitist_vsb.htm

€900 for a Korean Epiphone is a scandal.....you could nearly get a second hand Gibson Les Paul Standard for not much more second hand...

Karl Hungus

darrenw5094 wrote: »

There is even a bootleg video of GNR live from about '85 or '86 of Slash with BC Rich Warlock guitars.......disgusting.....;)

That it? Definitely have to say I prefer his Mockingbird, tasty piece of kit.

BostonB

darrenw5094 wrote: »

If you are going to spend that cash on a Epiphone...this is where you go.
http://www.thomann.de/ie/epiphone_lp_std_plus_elitist_vsb.htm

€900 for a Korean Epiphone is a scandal.....you could nearly get a second hand Gibson Les Paul Standard for not much more second hand...

Nuts price for an epi. I think 500 is the max they are worth.

darrenw5094

That link i posted above is for a Japanese made Epiphone, which needless to say, is in a different class to the Korean one.....apologies to everyone who owns a Korean Epiphone.....i had one 10 years ago fitted with Dimarzio X2N's. We all have to start somewhere.

BostonB

You're into the price of 2nd hand Gibson Les Pauls at that though. I can't see any Epi made in Japan or not being worth the same, in the long run.

darrenw5094

Correct....which was also my point about 4 or 5 posts back...
€900 for an epiphone or about €1100 for a second hand Gibson Les Paul Standard......not a hard choice to make...:cool: