Gary was a great one! Wish i would have had the opportunity to see him live.

How cool would it be to have seen him and Warren or Joe Bonamassa play together...

No finer 10 minutes of Les Paul Heaven

The Messiah Will Come Again

Just that last note alone - the bend is incredible and then tops it with this killer vibrato.

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I saw them the first time in the early 70's. Loudest show I've been too I think. My ears rang for days afterward. Page was impressive. Played a sunburst Les Paul. Used a violin bow on it toward the end of show. Played a double neck SG on a song. Plant's pants were buckled so low on his body and shirt open. Had to been trying to tease the young ladies.

But to me the strongest musician was the drummer. John eventually did a MAJOR drum solo finally ditching his sticks and pounding his toms with his hands. And I mean hard.

For some reason Butch Trucks couldn't stand this band. Especially Robert Plant. With one of the absolute best drummers I never understood why Butchie didn't dig Zeppelin. And apparently Gregg didn't care much for the Grateful Dead. But Duane and Dickey did. Dickey and Jerry were good friends too.

The Messiah Will Come Again by Gary is completely in a class by itself. So powerful, complicated, technically advanced and so clean. Eric Johnson is similar on White Cliffs of Dover. So technically advanced yet so clean. Like a polished concert violinist. But not for this thread because Johnson is playing a Strat. There is a fantastic version of Messiah by Gary playing it on a red Strat on YouTube but it's an audience recording. No close ups but the sound is fine. Gary's version on the Strat has, to me, the FASTEST shredding I've ever seen/heard. Gary indeed was one of the absolute great ones.

Yes Redhouse it would have been a big treat to have seen Gary play with Warren or Joe B. Actually I've noticed Warren mention Gary Moore as one of his favorites in two interviews. Jeff Beck is Warren's favorite. Joe Bonamassa several times has said that his biggest influence is Gary Moore and a little bit Walter Trout. That he basically borrowed the Gary Moore playbook which Joe said you start by plugging in a good sounding Les Paul to a Marshall, turn it up and let it fly.

BTW. The Les Paul Danny is playing in the link above is the Les Paul Dickey played on At Fillmore East and Dickey gave the guitar to Danny but in the 2000's Danny sold it.

Dickey has a whammy bar added to Goldie. I saw him play with it just once. The sound man said Dickey was inspired to do that after he saw Stevie Ray Vaughan live. Goldie had been Dickey's number one for many years and he loved the tone so didnt want to switch to a guitar that came with a whammy bar. But Dickey didnt use it long. I saw him again a year later and he had switched it back.

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Can't have a Les Paul thread without the original Metal Guitarist

Les Paul himself. He was speed alternate picking, sweep picking, tapping and he invented delay and looping decades before the world caught up.

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Yes Les Paul invented this great guitar. And he was a great player and innovator.

Actually Les Paul's actual guitar was a bit different than the model Gibson put out.

In 1961 Gibson radically changed the guitar and when Les saw it, he contacted Gibson and demanded his name be removed from the headstock so it became the SG, another fine guitar. But I agree with Les. The SG is NOT a Les Paul.

That little Black box that Les' shows and uses in the video - is a combination of no less that 4 effects pedals that will be popular in another 20 - 30 years.