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Philly Q

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« Reply #15 on: November 10, 2007, 09:29:40 PM »
I can't think of many more, but going back to the top of the thread, Oli mentioned specific tracks as well as artists.  It's not always easy to pick individual tracks, so I've cheated and included albums:

Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
Thin Lizzy - Still In Love With You & Don't Believe A Word
Free - All Right Now, Fire And Water, The Hunter
The Allman Brothers Band - the At Fillmore East album
Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton - the Beano album
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well, all the Peter Green stuff really
Jeff Beck - the Truth and Blow By Blow albums
Whitesnake - all the early albums
Govt Mule - everything!
ZZ Top - early stuff - Tush, La Grange, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Y&T - Forever
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction, obviously!  :)

And I just thought of a hugely underrated Les Paul man - Peter Frampton!  Check out Humble Pie's Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore and Frampton Comes Alive!
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« Reply #16 on: November 10, 2007, 09:41:32 PM »
Free
Focus
Black sabbath

Damn i have a good day today.....

EDIT: Ow and not to forget

Jefferson Airplane (well not all but anyway)
Cuby and the Blizzards
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« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2007, 08:44:21 PM »
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Gary moore was sort of covered in 'thin lizzy' i would have thought.


oh ok, sorry.  :oops:

has zakk been mentioned yet?
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« Reply #18 on: November 11, 2007, 09:38:42 PM »
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Gary moore was sort of covered in 'thin lizzy' i would have thought.


oh ok, sorry.  :oops:

has zakk been mentioned yet?
Yep 8) Oh and Jan Akkermann of Focus had a signature Framus guitar along with some modded LPs.
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« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2007, 04:06:35 PM »
well i just give up.

 :lol:
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« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2007, 06:41:21 PM »
:D How could you all forget Randy Rhoads with Ozzy 1st & best album !

Blizzard Of Oz

Heres proof if needed [ again ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbPWcLode0

 :D  8)
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« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2007, 07:03:16 PM »
Kiss' Ace Frehley was a LP lover
I think I saw some Panic Cell videos with LPs or at least SGs
my well is running dry (not a common occurrence with something that stops water from running in fact it probably a rather cr@ppy sort of well if that happens...)

LPs seem to have gone out of fashion nowadays :? Shame as they are pretty nice looking guitars despite being poorly conceived in terms of upper fret access.
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« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2007, 07:15:16 PM »
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Shame as they are pretty nice looking guitars despite being poorly conceived in terms of upper fret access.


Must argue that, Randy Rhoads was never a big guy, yet his tiny fingers seem to go right up the fretboard.

I agree that its nothing like a superstrat, however I find the necks too long, its easier to find your place on a LP / Gibson type thing with a prominent heel
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« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2007, 08:19:29 PM »
Al di Meola.
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« Reply #24 on: November 12, 2007, 09:21:05 PM »
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Al di Meola.

Good one!  :D
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« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2007, 10:29:08 PM »
Beatles-While My Guitar Gently Weeps- solo played by Eric Clapton.
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« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2007, 11:22:14 PM »
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LPs seem to have gone out of fashion nowadays :? Shame as they are pretty nice looking guitars despite being poorly conceived in terms of upper fret access.


I'd have to disagree- i find it really comfortable to play high up there (albeit with my sausage like hand appendages!). It feels really 'open' without a larger horn there, and i love the big feel of the heel. Granted it's a little more challenging doing faster shredish kinda stuff, but the LP has done something which i hadn't had for a while- made me smile and enjoy playing the guitar. For the past few months, i'd kinda just been going through the motions, playing the same old stuff, but now a hole new side to my playing has been uncovered.... a side filled with big tone and music with groove!

Cheers for all the suggestions guys, i'll check a selection of them out :)
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« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2007, 11:47:24 PM »
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Black sabbath


Iommi used an SG.
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« Reply #28 on: November 13, 2007, 09:53:43 AM »
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Black sabbath


Iommi used an SG.


Les Paul changed his signature model to the SG shape in 61-62, then he changed it back to his origunal LP model, the SG continued to be produced but then it was just called SG and not Les Paul. In books about Gibson the SG is still referred to as Les Paul/SG.

So a SG is a Les Paul originally. Still i would OK BS more from a sound perspective then from a guitar perspective.

Focus but also Cuby used LP's in the early days, later some different models came into play.
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« Reply #29 on: November 13, 2007, 05:05:26 PM »
Les Paul didn't change the spec, gibson did.
They may have similar names at times, but the sound and feel is completely different.
I guess it would be good for BS stuff, but its not going to have that same... well SG-ness
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