#Paul Bigsby

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La chitarra elettrica

Con la nascita delle prime orchestre jazz, all’inizio degli anni ’20 del secolo scorso, nacque l’esigenza di aumentare la potenza dell’amplificazione. In particolare il problema si poneva per le chitarre che erano difficilissime da amplificare con dei normali microfoni che, a causa della cassa armonica, tendevano a innescare (effetto larsen). I costruttori iniziarono così a produrre chitarre con…

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an overview of paul's guitars

before we look into pauls gear, i want to make sure we all are aware that im talking about the guitars he used WITH interpol. ill add some notes on his other instruments at the end of this post.

[paul with his and daniels guitars]

LES PAUL CUSTOM

"I've owned my Les Paul Custom since high school... its all I pretty much use today."

from what i can tell, paul has two les pauls, and he uses them interchangeably. first, though, id like to do a quick spec overview. his guitars have an ebony finish, and seeing as this guitar was most likely acquired in the 90s, gibson 490r and 498t pickups. in almost every picture i see of his les pauls, it seems he or a guitar tech have switched out the stock gold bridge with a black one. im not a gibson expert, so im not sure of the exact model, but it looks to be a tune-o-matic style bridge. he also has removed the covers on the pickups of his guitar. another quick note, in photos from around 2004 to 2005, there is a square shaped hole cut clean through his piece of velcro on his les paul. this was done to hold his ebow during take you on a cruise. thats all the specs/mods to show, ill put some pictures highlighting the points ive gone over.

[a close up of one of pauls les pauls, 2015. note the bridge, and absence of pickup covers]

[what i thought was a hole turned out to be a piece of velcro]

[hole has been blocked/filled! may 21, 2005]

[early picture of paul, with his pickup covers still on. very modest]

JAGUAR

"The Jaguar actually came about specifically within Interpol because I had written a part in which I wanted whammy, and I don't like Les Pauls with Bigsbys."

from what i can deduce, i think this guitar is a fender american vintage jaguar from 2005-06, in black. paul hasnt done too many mods to this instrument, though their are a few changes, most importantly, the pickup swap. he changed the stock jaguar pickups to seymour duncan hot rails sometime after recording our love to admire. while this definitely changed the sound a bit, this was after OLTA, so i wont bother finding dates, as the songs the jaguar was likely used on wouldve been the stock single coils. next up, the pickguard. the american vintage jags in black came with a tortoise shell pickguard, but pauls has a black one. what gives? well, seeing as carlos' jazz bass came with a white guard, but that was switched to black, its not outlandish to believe that this was done by paul or his tech, to give the jag a darker look. paul also put tape on the guitars lower horns control switches, most likely to stop his hand from accidently hitting the switches, and changing his sound mid song.

[paul with his jaguar, before he swapped the pickups.]

[another pic before the pickup swap. note the tape on the control panel.]

[a later pic, where we can see he added MORE tape to the guitar, and after he swapped the pickups to hot rails.}

INTERMISSION

if you ask me, pauls les paul custom and jaguar are the two guitars youd definitively need to get his sound, and also the two guitars HE uses to get his sound. but what other guitars has paul used with interpol? lets see.

LES PAUL DELUXE

used during the TOTBL era, this guitar is sort of a mystery. for one, he didnt seem to favor it for certain songs, using his les paul custom and deluxe interchangeably for many songs, even playing full shows with his deluxe. secondly, from what ive seen, this instrument was NOT used after the TOTBL era. its probable that this instrument was either used on a few songs from TOTBL, and brought along on tour as a backup that paul just happened to really like and play alot, or it was rented for shows over seas. either way, its an interesting case.

[the mysterious gold top deluxe. wonder what song hes playing here?]

FLYING V

paul has stated that he thinks the flying v is the coolest looking guitar out there. to each their own, i guess. that doesnt matter, what matters is that he played this instrument in the barricade music video. he used this guitar at the end of the OLTA era, during the self titled era, and has rarely been seen with it after that. most likely has the same pickups as his les paul custom, but dont quote me on that.

[as long as he likes it.]

CONCLUSION

there is one more guitar i didnt bring up, so ill do it here now, and its his dave murray strat. he hasnt used it live with interpol, though it is seen in behind the scenes footage of el pintor. anyways, leave a comment if youd like me to cook up a list of what guitars i think were used on each song! i hope you enjoyed reading this, next up i think ill go over his amps and other equipment. till next time.

[Paul Banks.]

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1959 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty with Bigsby

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Gibson Custom Shop 1959 / '59 Les Paul Standard Brazilian Rosewood Tom's Tri-Burst Bigsby Murphy Lab Aged 2024 | Miami-Guitars

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Paul Bigsby, engineer at Thor Motorcycle Company and Indian Motorcycle Company, riding a Crocker and sporting a Crocker Sweater.

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Les Paul Standard with a Bigsby and a Danelectro.

[jedivoodoochile]

Keith Richards pictured with a ‘59 Les Paul that he sold to Mick Taylor when Taylor was playing with John Mayall. The guitar rejoined the Stones with Taylor in 1969.

According to information provided by high-end guitar brokerage Richard Henry, the “Keith Burst” is a ’59 Les Paul that first arrived at Farmers Music Store in Luton, England, in ’61, and was played for a time by John Bowen of Mike Dean & The Kingsmen. Bowen had a Bigsby added to the guitar at Selmer’s Music in London, before trading it in there in late ’62. A young Keith Richards, who purchased the Les Paul with Bigsby, occasionally visited a regular haunt of musicians on the booming London scene of the day, Selmer’s. (It’s worth noting that both Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Jeff Beck of The Yardbirds also acquired used ’59 Les Pauls at Selmer’s, and several other acquisitions logged in the history of rock also took place in this popular west-end shop.)

Throughout the early days of the Stones, the Les Paul was one of Richards’s most prominent guitars. The Best-known photos of the era show him playing it on a Ready Steady Go! TV-show performance in Britain in ’64, and he also played it on a tour of the US that same year, when it popped up during the Stones’s performance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Early Rolling Stones hits purportedly recorded with the Les Paul include “Satisfaction,” “Get Off My Cloud,” “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” and “Little Red Rooster.” As seen in color photos from the time, just five years after it left the factory it was already faded to a deep amber burst with a little iced-tea shading around the body edges. While still in Richards’s possession, the Bigsby ’Burst was also purportedly loaned to Jimmy Page for some studio sessions, and was then loaned to Eric Clapton for use with Cream at the ’66 Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival. - Gibson

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#AMGearstories: Travis Stever of LS Dunes and Coheed & Cambria talks about his Gibson Les Paul

AltomusicNY: In this episode of #AMgearstories we chat with our pal Travis Stever from the bands LS Dunes and Coheed & Cambria. Travis is an old friend of Alto Music and we were excited to catch up with him and his 2001 Gibson Les Paul Standard!

(YouTube | August 4, 2023)

Transcript under the cut

Travis: Hey, I'm Travis Stever, I play guitar in the bands L.S. Dunes, Coheed and Cambria, and whatever the hell else I can get involved in. I'm here at Irving Plaza this evening, getting prepared to play with L.S. Dunes, and Alto Music was nice enough to ask me to tell a gear story. Alto Music, which was very important in my life, growing up in Rockland County, New York, and also living in Orange County, New York. Alto was a go-to for me and Claudio Sanchez, actually, who is the singer and guitar player in the other band I'm in, Coheed and Cambria. We would, like, countless amounts of times, we would go to Middletown, when we lived up there, for all gear needed for recording with Coheed, and also when we were young tikes, just with dreams of performing, we would go to the one in Airmont, in Rockland, which sadly is gone, because I live in Rockland again now, and I hope, someday, they open another. But, today I'm going to do a little rig rundown, I chose a Les Paul Standard, 2001, that I actually bought at the beginning of first touring with Coheed and Cambria. We had done some Midwest runs, we had been all over the East Coast but, right before we did our full U.S. tour, Claudio Sanchez and I decided to treat ourselves, finally, to the nicest guitars that we could afford at that point in our lives, and I picked this Les Paul Standard, and it has been my go-to, it has been on probably every Coheed record, is what I primarily used on most of the L.S. Dunes album, Past Lives. I just used it on the two songs from our upcoming 7'', Benadryl Subreddit, is a song that was released already, and another song, Old Wounds, I used this guitar on both songs. I have two favorite guitars, they're both Les Pauls, the other one was a guitar I received from Gibson and it's a gold top traditional, and I received it from Gibson, because I had a custom black beauty with a key work created for me, and I got artist price, and they said, "we'll also throw in another guitar for you, because you're doing this", and, you know, paying artist price, and it was really, really nice of them. And they happen to give me this gold top traditional, that is my other favorite guitar. So, now when I travel with Coheed, I always have my traditional gold top, and when I travel with Dunes, I always have my tobacco burst Les Paul, always with the bigsby. And, that way, when I'm with either band, I have my favorite Les Paul. Basically, the story goes, this has followed me on tour since 2001, and that's my story, and I'm sticking with it.

[retrofret]

Just posted a Bigsby Model Lap Steel Hand Made By P.A. Bigsby in Downey California in 1943! Original black hard shell case. - Read more about it by clicking on the link in our profile. - Despite its unassuming appearance this is one of the most interesting and historically important pieces we have handled, the first musical instrument ever made by Paul "P.A" Bigsby. Bigsby is most remembered now for his namesake vibrato tailpiece, but the former motorcycle builder created the first modern solidbody electric guitar for Merle Travis in 1948, greatly influenced Les Paul and Leo Fender and essentially invented the modern pedal steel. He eschewed mass production, crafting his exceptional instruments one ty a time one at a time in a small backyard shop in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. - - - - #paulbigsby #paulbigsbyguitars #bigsbyguitar #rareguitar #steelguitar #steelguitarlove #pabigsby #lapsteel #lapsteelguitar (at Retrofret Vintage Guitars) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpA7QCLuUzq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I got inspired to make a cosmetic change on my Les Paul, tonight.

The tailpiece is from an Ibanez AF-55, that was traded out for a Bigsby.

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Carl the Llama

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Carl the Llama is the villainous protagonist of the web series Llamas with Hats. In each episode, he is shown to have gruesomely and graphically murdered a human, or group of humans, and then has to explain it to his best friend named Paul, much to Paul's shock and horror.

He is voiced by Chris Alex.

Contents

1Victims

1.1Llamas with Hats

1.2Llamas with Hats 2

1.3Llamas with Hats 3

1.4Llamas with Hats 4

1.5Llamas with Hats 5

1.6Llamas with Hats 6

1.7Llamas with Hats 7

1.8Llamas with Hats 8

1.9Llamas with Hats 9

1.10Llamas with Hats 10

1.11Llamas with Hats 11

1.12Llamas with Hats 12

2Kill Counts

3Characters Killed by Carl the Llama

4Death

5Note

6Navigation

Victims

Llamas with Hats

Unnamed Man - Stabbed 37 times in the chest and then hands ripped off by Carl off-screen, body seen.

Total - 1

Llamas with Hats 2

Unnamed Ship Captain - Shot in the face by Carl with a harpoon gun off-screen, mentioned.

Unnamed Elderly Couple - Killed by Carl off-screen, blood seen.

Total - 3

Llamas with Hats 3

Unnamed Male Resistance Leader - Shredded by a giant fan when Carl pushed him into it off-screen, mentioned.

Unnamed Hotel Bartender - Eaten alive by Carl off-screen, mentioned.

Total - 2

Llamas with Hats 4

33 Unknown People - Faces ripped off by Carl off-screen, faces seen.

Total - 33

Llamas with Hats 5

Ladybug - Accidentally crushed by Carl off-screen, mentioned.

Mrs. Bigsby - Buried alive by Carl off-screen, mentioned.

250 Unknown Babies - Killed by Carl off-screen, severed hands seen.

Total - 252

Llamas with Hats 6

None

Llamas with Hats 7

24 Unknown People - Killed by Carl to make the Hand Chair off-screen, skin seen.

Total - 24

Llamas with Hats 8

None

Llamas with Hats 9

Unnamed Person - Dismembered by Carl off-screen, body parts seen.

Total - 1

Llamas with Hats 10

7,333,139,891 Unknown People - Killed during the events of the apocalypse caused by Carl off-screen, bodies seen.

Total - 7,333,139,891

Llamas with Hats 11

None

Llamas with Hats 12

Paul - Killed during the events of apocalypse caused by Carl off-screen, skeleton seen.

Total - 1

Kill Counts

Total - 7,333,140,207

7,333,140,205 Humans

7,333,140,200 Victims of Unknown Gender

3 Men

2 Women

1 Animal

All Llamas

1 Insect

All Ladybugs

Characters Killed by Carl the Llama

Mrs. Bigsby - Buried alive off-screen by Carl, mentioned.

Paul - Killed during the events of apocalypse off-screen, skeleton seen.

Death

Committed suicide by jumping from a bridge and drowning himself in the ocean. (Llamas with Hats 12)

Note

Despite causing the deaths of all the Humans on planet Earth, Carl was genuinely devastated by Paul's death to the point where he jumped off of a bridge in remorse, proving he is not pure evil.

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2011 Gibson 1954 Les Paul Custom Reissue with Bigsby

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Johnny Depp’s Guitar Collection

1956 Fender Telecaster

Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar

Duesenberg Johnny Depp Artist Series Electric Guitar

Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar

Gretsch G5441T Double Jet with Bigsby RW Firebird Red

Gibson Custom Joe Perry Boneyard Les Paul Electric Guitar

Gibson Les Paul Special Double-Cut Electric Guitar

Ibanez 2459 Destroyer

Duesenberg Johnny Depp Unique “Wooden Fence” Guitar

Paoletti Leonardo 500 IL Giglio

Echopark La Carne

Gibson Flying V Electric Guitar

Gibson SG Junior

Duesenberg Alliance Mike Campbell I

Gibson Les Paul Custom Electric Guitar

Vintage Gibson L3 Acoustic Guitar

Gibson Les Paul Junior Double-Cut TV Yellow

Gretsch G5021WPE Rancher Penguin Acoustic

Echopark Ghetto Bird

Gibson Reverse Flying V

Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar

Gibson Joe Perry Axcess Les Paul

Duesenberg Caribou

Gibson SG Junior 60’s Electric Guitar

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Merle Travis & Paul Bigsby