The Les Paul Auction Catalog

[Dave W]

I'm putting this here since it's not just Gibson and it's not just musical instruments.

http://www.juliensauctions.com/images/auctions/2012/les-paul/flipbook/icatalog.html

[gweimer]

Gibson 3G1 bass - $1000-$1500.  It's been modded....   

8 string EB2 prototype?  $100?

[Basvarken]

Awesome catalogue / book.

There's definitely some interesting instruments in there.
For example the prototype twins of the Recording guitar and bass on page 70. It's the third "prototype" bass of this model that I know of.




And what to think of Les Paul's "somewhat foggy memory" in the note that goes with the heavily mutilated EB on page 67:

"Serial #614108
This is one of the 1st 67 Electric Bass Guitars Gibson made. I was responsible for the violin shape - and also my son Rusty L.P. Jr. changed it from Hi to Lo Impedance. Note - it all came about (the Electric Guitar Bass from me playing my E string on the guitar as a Bass using my thumb - this proved it could replace a stand up Bass and Leo Fender & Lots others picked up the idea - Les."

woah!

[rahock]

This stuff should not be auctioned, it should be the start of a museum.
Rick

[Dave W]

...
And what to think of Les Paul's "somewhat foggy memory" in the note that goes with the heavily mutilated EB on page 67:

"Serial #614108
This is one of the 1st 67 Electric Bass Guitars Gibson made. I was responsible for the violin shape - and also my son Rusty L.P. Jr. changed it from Hi to Lo Impedance. Note - it all came about (the Electric Guitar Bass from me playing my E string on the guitar as a Bass using my thumb - this proved it could replace a stand up Bass and Leo Fender & Lots others picked up the idea - Les."

woah!

Didn't you know that Leo traveled forward in time and stole it from Les?    Not to mention Paul Tutmarc who was building and marketing his Audiovox in the mid-1930s. I also seriously doubt that Les had anything to do with the shape of it, he didn't even design the shape of the Les Paul guitar! And he certainly didn't invent the technique of doing bass notes on the E string.

Les "invented" multi-track recording years after the motion picture industry was already using it, and he "invented" pickups, the electric guitar, and the solidbody electric after others already had them on the market. In his later years, the 18-month series of 5-minute Listerine commercials he did with Mary got exaggerated into a TV show that ran for seven years.

Still, you can't argue with his influence.

[rahock]

Didn't you know that Leo traveled forward in time and stole it from Les?   

This is even bigger than I thought, Les Paul invented the time machine too .
How did Weekly World News miss this .
Rick

[Dave W]

This is even bigger than I thought, Les Paul invented the time machine too .
How did Weekly World News miss this .
Rick

I'll bet he went back to the Renaissance and invented the shape of the violin.

If the WWN has covered this, no doubt space aliens, Hitler and Elvis were involved.

[rahock]

  Don't forget Bat Bama
Rick

[godofthunder]

  My brother in law has a I think 1953 LP gold top with cream covered P90's, I'll have to take a look again. It was given to him by Les in the 70's. Complete with a signed letter by Les himself. My brother in law started MXR and went on to found Whirlwind Audio. He would send Les product and never ask for anything in return, when they finally meet Les presented him with this guitar.

[Pilgrim]

If the WWN has covered this, no doubt space aliens, Hitler and Elvis were involved.

And at least one Kardashian.

[Highlander]

Thinking out loud...

Hmm... I wonder if a certain German gentleman will be seen in California this June... 

[uwe]

Ooops, I had missed this until now thinking it was just guitars. Looking at some of his derelict "experiments", Les "the Gouger" Paul would have been an approriate nick name. Practical aspects certainly took priority over esthetics with him! 

Great collection. I'm torn between it being kept together in a museum and the stuff actually getting played.

[Basvarken]

Thinking out loud...

Hmm... I wonder if a certain German gentleman will be seen in California this June... 

No need to travel: There is an option Phone bidding...

[uwe]

Why phone, when The Netherlands are only a convenient tank ride away?

[Barklessdog]

Great collection. I'm torn between it being kept together in a museum and the stuff actually getting played.

You mean buying the whole collection & keeping it in your office?