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Yes, no.
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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I suppose there is the '75 Les Paul Custom as well used by somebody famous in Quiet Riot who went on to join Ozzy and an original Kramer Pacer and an original small shop early '80's Charvel, but I wouldn't pay the prices.
A nice White Custom with a volute would be nice though.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
I always wanted a Les Paul ever since seeing Pagey playing one in Page and Plant Unledded. As soon as I could afford one, I bought an Epiphone Les Paul. A few years later I replaced the stock pickups with Kent Armstrongs, the tuners with Schaller locking units, put in a bone nut and a roller bridge and installed mad Pagey wiring. After all that the guitar played beautifully and I honestly lost interest in getting a genuine Gibbo.
Later, I got a Red Special after they started mass producing them. To be honest, it's a bit of a compromise - the vibrato system is nothing like the original (not sure how much difference it makes in practice), and the sound was much-improved by installing accurate reproduction Adeson pickups.
Finally, I got an N4 which is just lovely and plays like a dream.
Dream guitar as a youngster was an SG because of Carlos at Woodstock. But I did have a Yamaha SG200 for a while in my teens, which was close enough.
Then I wanted an Ibanez Sabre 540 because of Satch. Never got one, but do now own a JS100, which again is close enough.
Both have satisfied the itch, many times over
The other was a Candy Apple Red Fender Stratocaster. I was at a wedding in Farnbrough in 1987 and it was the first time at the age of 8 that I had seen a Strat, I thought it was fucking amazing. God I wanted one and hounded my parents for one, but they were £700 and my parents were skipping meals... So when my son showed an interest in my Jackson and wanted his own instrument I bought him a Candy Apple Red Squire standard. The look on his face when he opened the case will live with me for ever. It's a really nice guitar, nicer than I thought it would be and while not a USA std it is close enough to scratch the itch.
I dreamed of having a red special - ended up with a Brian May Guitar (not the burns one) and really disliked it.
The other guitar I coveted was a Fender Sambora Strat - I have such a beast and it's wonderful
I first picked up a guitar summer 1999 and decided to 'play guitar' February 2000 (on my father's birthday) when I was 13.
I very quickly coveted Slash's GoldTop Gibson Les Paul and wanted a Les Paul of my own.
Last November I got a GoldTop Dark Back Gibson Les Paul R7.
Also...
When I was 13, in March, I bought a dilapidated LP shaped guitar cheap from Cash Converters that turned out to used to have been a Framus Hollywood from the 1960's.
When I was 20 I had it fixed at Feline Guitars, when I was 21 (as a 21st birthday gift to myself) I had this vision of what I wanted this guitar to be when I first laid eyes on it come to fruition.
Honest to God I thought I'd be 80 by the time it happened, but I was 21.
This guitar (Slash is playing).