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Appetite for Destruction Les Paul

If you are a fan of “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” or “Paradise City” then you too can own a piece of rock history. Or at least a nearly exact replica of it. Oh, and you will also need nearly five G’s but, hey, what’s a little money when you want to rock.

I wasn’t really much of a fan of Guns N’ Roses when they arrived on the scene in 1987. I was still in the Van Halen/Whitesnake/Def Leppard mode. Guns was Aerosmith and AC/DC on steroids. They were as anti-hair metal as it got and their debut album was like a Mike Tyson uppercut to the world of pointy-headstock guitars. Nirvana came along four years later and merely finished up the job that Guns had already started.

To find out more about the Gibson Slash Appetite For Destruction Les Paul click here.

Edit: Musician’s Friend has the Gibson Slash Appetite Les Paul for $2,837 and free shipping. I suppose that is a bargain. Also, Slash has a new Seymour Duncan Alnico II pickup available that will definitely be worth checking out.

Les Paul & Mary Ford show

During the 1950s Les Paul and his wife Mary Ford starred on a radio show. The show featured corn-pone dialogue, Les endlessly tinkering with new inventions (usually modifications to his “Les Paulverizer”), and musical performances. The shows are wonderful, innocent slices of post-WWII Americana. I searched far and wide on the web to find an archive of the shows and finally found them here.

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