Gibson Les Paul Deluxe

"After that, I was in a band with a lead-guitar player named John Ricio, who took me under his wing and guided me toward the Tele, and eventually, a Les Paul Deluxe we found in the paper. The guy was willing to trade for the Telecaster, which by then I had almost destroyed. The Deluxe’s mini-humbuckers made the transition from a Fender to a Gibson guitar a little easier. **Do you still have that guitar?** No, I sold that, too… it followed me to Japan and California, and I traded it to Second Hand Guitars in partial payment for a ’54 refinished hardtail Strat."

Slash posts a photo of his 1975 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe to Facebook: > "Great 75 Deluxe w/humbuckers I picked up from the extremely cool folks at @ChicagoMusicExchange Sweet Gtr. iiii]; )'"

From a 2011 article "Vince Gill’s Touring Gear," a photo of his Gibson Les Paul Deluxe is shown, with the caption: > "Mid-2000s Gibson Les Paul Deluxe with a chambered body. Gill usually keeps this guitar tuned down a half step." Original article [here](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/GALLERY_Vince_Gills_Touring_Gear).

After using the SG special, Pete moved on to the Les Paul Deluxe. He has a few of them with one modified with a full-sized hum bucker in the middle position.

Brain wasn’t satisfied with the Stratocaster/Vox AC30 combo, so he started using the Les Paul instead for the 1974-1975 tour. This ended up being disappointment also, and Brian went back to playing his Red Special – and ordered John Birch replica as a backup. “I used to think the Stratocaster would be the thing when I got one. Always thought when I got enough money to get one of those, that will be it. Then, when I got enough, I didn’t like it. The same with the Les Paul. I thought the Les Paul would be it.”

*How did you find that instrument in the first place?* *I was very lucky. I got a real **Les Paul deluxe** when I was 15, and then with the money I had saved from the two real jobs I had as a youngster, I bought a little SG Junior. I was noticing that if you play an interesting chord with a distorted sound, the harmonics of the distortion would make the chord disappear. So I thought what I’d do is get a semi-acoustic so I’d still have the electric sound, put a little contact pickup on it and I’ll mix an acoustic sound with it. I came across an old Gibson catalog, saw one of those types of guitar, and went, ‘Look at that! What a beautiful looking guitar!’ I found one in London for 40 pounds, plugged in and the sound was just there.*

Robbie McIntosh talks and plays through the electric guitars on Turn Up For The Books He mentioned his Les Paul on minute 2:59

Probably unlike many professional musicians you appear loyal to one or two guitars. Your Gold Les Paul Deluxe has been around for a number of videos and probably hundreds of gigs now have been tempted to try a new instrument? NF : I use lots of guitars at home but on stage I have become very reliant on the Gold Top. Taken from : http://www.flixelpix.com/blog/archive-neil-finn-interview/

"Clarke modded this ’79 Gibson Paul Deluxe with Seymour Duncan ’59 pickups. His most-played LP, it has served in Candy, Kill for Thrills, GnR, MC5, as well as with Heart and Nancy Sinatra. “I grew up with this guitar, so it’s very special to me,” he said."

"Worst: Rickenbacker 610 I had custom ordered had that terrible R tailpiece & squealed at realistic volumes. Looked cool, though. Best: when I discovered my first G&L SC-1 & bought it used for around $200. A vintage 1960s Jet Firebird I bought at a pawnshop for $235 was a rather good deal, as was a wonderful 1970s Cherry Sunburst Les Paul Deluxe (that I wish I still had) that I got for $375." - excerpt from QRD interview.

In this picture we can see Tom Delonge with his Fender Custom guitar in the box car racer era, and also what it seems to be a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe in David's hands

Brian Robertson uses a 1973 Les Paul Deluxe, according to [this](http://www.guitargeek.com/brian-robbo-robertson-thin-lizzy-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-1974/) Guitar Geek rig diagram.

On Sonic Youth's [website](http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/eq/gtr43.html) it says, about Lee Ranaldo's Les Paul Deluxe: "Used by Lee: 1991-1999 1991 -- D#D#C#C#G#G# (I Love Her All The Time) 1993 -- GGCGCD (Bull in the Heather, Starfield Road, In The Mind of The Bourgeois Reader, Self-Obsessed & Sexxee) 1994 -- GGCGCD (Bull in the Heather, Starfield Road, Self-Obsessed & Sexxee) 1995 -- GGCGCD (Bull in the Heather, Starfield Road, Self-Obsessed & Sexxee, Washing Machine, No Queen Blues, Unwind) 1996 -- GGCGCD (Bull in the Heather, Starfield Road, Self-Obsessed & Sexxee, Washing Machine, No Queen Blues, Unwind) 1999 -- GGCGCD (Bull in the Heather, Starfield Road) NOTES: Lee began using this mid-70s Gibson Les Paul Custom extensively on the early '91 tour w/ Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Its neck broke 3 or 4 times during the tour and had to be repaired by Neil's tech. This guitar was used in a new tuning on a large portion of "Experimental Jet Set..." and it remained in that tuning until its theft in July 1999. Gauges: .056 .056 .028 .024 .020 .020 (GGCGCD) Red sparkle finish 2 single coils, 1 humbucker Rosewood fretboard 1 toggle switch 4 knobs 2 coil taps Serial # -- 512510 Listed as "L.P." on '95 set lists. Listed as "LES PAUL" on '99 set lists."

Lenny Kravitz traded the first guitar he bought, a Fender Jazzmaster, for a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, according to [this Guitar Center interview](http://gc.guitarcenter.com/interview/lkravitz/): "GC: Have you shopped or do you shop at Guitar Center at all? What do you think about it? Lenny: I bought my first guitar at Guitar Center! A Fender Jazz Master. Then I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. I've been shopping at Guitar Center before it was even a big chain. It was the one place."

It also seems quite alike to standard Les Paul from Gibson, Those Mini Size Hum Buckers signs that it is a Les Paul Deluxe Model. Which has quite distinguish sounds to Standard Les Paul. It's bright and gently clean sound is its specialty.

A Gibson Les Paul Deluxe is listed as part of Adam's guitar arsenal in [this Premier Guitar interview](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20889-the-war-on-drugs-driving-music-for-the-american-dreamscape?page=2)

In this photo, Bjorke can be seen with Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, as well as some of his effects.

"Bryce’s main electric guitars are a 1963 Fender Jaguar and an early 1970s Les Paul Deluxe with miniature humbuckers."

"I've got a 1971 Les Paul Deluxe. I usually hate these guitars. Ya know, they have the mini-humbuckers on them, and I usually hate them. But for some reason, this guitar is just pure magic. I play that one a lot with Counting Crows."

He uses the Mini Humbucker Deluxe in this performance with "Los Angeles Azules" for their Sinfonic session.

This guitar was used in concert in Mexico, Auditorio Nacional

1971- Sunburst Les Paul

gibson les paul deluxe in strange parallel

Played mainly during Kevin Gilbert´s "Thud" live shows.

In this photo, and during the days of his early band Steel Mill, Springsteen played a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe

This photo comes from Snow Patrol's 2007 concert in Bangor, Northern Ireland. In this photo, Lightbody can be seen with Gibson Les Paul Deluxe.

"That was a Deluxe; I bought that new around ’73. It was just one of things where you go into a music store, pick something up, and really like it. I just used it on the band’s latest record."

"My main guitar is the Les Paul Deluxe I used with Fastway in the ’80s."

> He’s played hundreds of makes and models, but Davies was first best known for playing a Gibson Flying V. In early ‘60s “pop” circles, the V was a rare spot and his embracing of Gibson’s radical design was hugely influential, even if he only bought the V because another guitar (originally destined for The Beatles’ George Harrison) he’d just acquired got stolen in transit to the U.S.A. Davies has also played many Les Pauls (Standards, Deluxes, P-90 Goldtops, Artisans) and L-5 and L-6 models too.

Tanya Donelly used her Gibson Les Paul Deluxe (with the JOBLESS ANTI-WORKWEAR sticker) on her tour stops in NYC..

Quoted from [this interview](https://www.musicradar.com/news/thrice-when-we-were-17-we-wanted-to-fit-as-many-notes-as-possible-in-were-minimalists-nowadays): > I've had that guitar forever, actually. I got it and I threw P-90s in it right away, to see if i'd like it. It was cool, but for whatever reason, I didn't really end up using it that much. I dug it out, and I started thinking about putting mini-humbuckers back in; I liked the idea of something that's a little more articulate than a standard humbucker.

In this photo of his guitars, this burst-finished Gibson Les Paul Deluxe is visible.

In this photo, one can see Sweeney playing a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe.

In this photo, Mike Ness can be seen with a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe. The caption of this photo, found in [this article](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Social_Distortion_Punk_At_The_Wheel), reads, "Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness with his favorite guitar—a 1976 Les Paul Deluxe—at an August 10, 2010, gig at Harrah’s in Council Bluffs, Iowa."

Greg Anderson uses a Les Paul Deluxe with Dimarzio Super Distortion P90s according to [this rig rundown](http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21801-drone-alone-the-savage-soundscapes-of-sunn-o?page=2).

Vincent can be seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe in a Blue Sparkle finish in this photo.

In this photo, Maddock is seen tuning Gibson Les Paul Deluxe.

He uses this for almost every cover and song he performs, it is his guitar of choice

This guitar was featured on the "guitars" section on his official website.

You can see Richie is playing his Gibson Les Paul Deluxe in the photo.

Probably a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe from the seventies with a stripped down headstock and two P90-pickups added

Roddy can be seen playing a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe with The Skabilly Rebels.

Efrim uses a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe with the pickguard removed and a Bigsby B5 tremolo added.

The item can be seen at the very beginning of this clip.