Bad.Seed
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Walk into my local music store as I usually do on Fridays, just to check and see what they have going on. Every now and then I'll find a crazy deal, or something interesting.
Lo and behold, I asked my buddy if they had anything cool in and he pointed me to a 1975 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black beauty. As soon as I looked at it it caught my eye, as I have been lusting over a vintage Les Paul. I own many, but none of them are anywhere near the vintage realm. And I figured that was the next natural step as a collector to grab something like that.
They had it listed at $3,000 plus tax, and even though it felt really nice in the hands, I wasn't looking to spend that anytime soon. So I said cool take a stroll on left. I was walking the dogs later that night and thinking about things that I could get rid of it they can meet me at the price that I was willing to pay. I texted him back and said make me a better price, he said 2650 at the door. I said if you'll do 2,500, I'll do it right now. He agreed, and I went up there and grab it and came home with it.
Has the original t-top pickups, although the bridge one is so microphone and I can't use it under any sort of moderator High game. So they're going to look at that for me, but I swapped in a Gibson 496 into the bridge, which is a surprisingly nice sounding Bridge pickup for the time being.
the guitar is all original, as far as I can tell. It's definitely been played in love to, but that's what I wanted. Vintage guitar with some mojo to it. I'm sure a lot of guys don't use vintage instruments for thrash metal, but this will definitely be getting heavy rotation and gigging play from me
Lo and behold, I asked my buddy if they had anything cool in and he pointed me to a 1975 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black beauty. As soon as I looked at it it caught my eye, as I have been lusting over a vintage Les Paul. I own many, but none of them are anywhere near the vintage realm. And I figured that was the next natural step as a collector to grab something like that.
They had it listed at $3,000 plus tax, and even though it felt really nice in the hands, I wasn't looking to spend that anytime soon. So I said cool take a stroll on left. I was walking the dogs later that night and thinking about things that I could get rid of it they can meet me at the price that I was willing to pay. I texted him back and said make me a better price, he said 2650 at the door. I said if you'll do 2,500, I'll do it right now. He agreed, and I went up there and grab it and came home with it.
Has the original t-top pickups, although the bridge one is so microphone and I can't use it under any sort of moderator High game. So they're going to look at that for me, but I swapped in a Gibson 496 into the bridge, which is a surprisingly nice sounding Bridge pickup for the time being.
the guitar is all original, as far as I can tell. It's definitely been played in love to, but that's what I wanted. Vintage guitar with some mojo to it. I'm sure a lot of guys don't use vintage instruments for thrash metal, but this will definitely be getting heavy rotation and gigging play from me
