The Gibson Goldtop Collection (The Evolution of the Les Paul) | CME Film
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- The Gibson Les Paul Goldtop changed the world of guitars when introduced in 1952 and created one of the most significant guitars in rock n' roll history. The years leading to the perfected "holy grail" years, tell a story of great innovation and historical importance that you can see change from year to year. This is their story told by the owner and the vintage specialist of Chicago Music Exchange. Recently acquiring a consecutive collection of Goldtop's beginning with the first year 1952 extending to 1956, these guitars individually show every change made to each model that lead to creating the worlds most important guitar.
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Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 1952
Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 1953
Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 1954
Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 1955
Gibson Les Paul Goldtop 1956
Music by: Aryeh East
Filmed edited and directed by: Chris Hershman
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I am honored to have found and bought an Early 1953 Goldtop , from a guy who had owned the guitar since 1974. I found the guitar on craigslist, spoke to the owner over the phone, and before i knew it, I drove nearly 1000 miles in one day to purchase it. I paid $3000 for it. It is an early 1953, and does not have a serial number, has never been refretted, still has the original pots in it, (dated 1952) . It was refinished actually very well in gold, and was converted to humbuckers and a tune-omatic style bridge in the late 70's. However i do have a few of the original parts for the guitar, and im planning on restoring it to its former glory. It has alot of age and beauty to it, and im still in shock that i own such an incredible peice of guitar history.
pics or it didn't happen
yeah pics or it didn't happen
Goldtops have a cool factor no sunburst will ever have
that 54 is immaculate
Just something magical about those old Goldtops. Give me one of those over a Burst any day of the week.
I was waiting for you guys to play them the whole video! :(
I had an old Gibson Les Paul and loved the damn thing, I really love the collection you guys are showing, sooo much history there from the guitar world!!! Old Gibson Les Pauls are beautiful. But some how my body and mind, hands, fingers can let go more on a Stratocaster, a good quality strat is more my type...Although I love to see great musicians who can make a great Les Paul talk though. It's ALL about being super comfortable with sound and feel. My personal opinion is both types are incredible!!! But I am a Stratocaster lover myself... Peace
i got to play a 53 for a few moments at my local guitar store..what a beauty.so resonant ans soooo light...a real treat
I got one in 1994 from a family friend. They gave me a 52' Les Paul, a Maestro Fuzz Tone distortion pedal, and a 52' Gibson GA-40 amp. Sadly, I traded the Fuzz Tone for a Boss DS-1. When I got it, the guitar was in mint condition. Now, it has tons of wear (i.e. the paint has worn off, it's been shoved through an amp, it's been smashed through a wall). I stopped the abuse in the late '90s, but I never expected to still have it.
So cool! Thanks for sharing! 🤘🤘
Last year I went to a Gibson showroom in Yaesu, Tokyo. I tried various guitars but the best thing I wanted was the Les Paul of the gold top with the p - 900 pickup. (Google translation use)
I remembered a happy moment at that time with THIS video. Thank you.
I'd love to see more history about different classic guitarmodels and brands. This video was fantastic!
I can't bellieve you didn't play the damn things. Nice little history lesson (for those that don't know this stuff, and most LP fanbois do know it), but no sound comparison...WTF?
ElCapinyoazz and
I love this video so much, saw it like a million times in these nine years its on here and it always bring me in a good mood
All guitar lovers should watch this video... Brilliant!
My only two LPs are a gold top and of course a black beauty.
There's a little reverse logic at 6:50... He says "it's not unusual for a very worn instrument to feel great... it obviously feels great cause someone played it a lot..." I think that a guitar gets played a lot because it feels great, not feels great because it gets played a lot... This is why I am always wary of "Mint w/tags" vintage guitars... they are probably dogs... They were the guitar that someone grabbed off the rack, said "Eh, not too hip..." put it back, grabbed the next one, said "YEAH!! This is the one..." 60 Years later, guitar #1 is still in great shape, while guitar #2 is beat. Cuz someone played the snot out of guitar #2, died, someone else got it said "YEAH!!!" played the snot out of it... etc...
I think he meant it obviously feels great if it was played that much. He just didn't word it properly
Salesmen always turn things to their advantage. If they sell a piece of poop, they'll find some way to make it appear nicer than it is.
What a treasure
Those are just fantastic pieces of history - I'd take any one, but the peach is that 55; that one worked for a living
6:20 cuz like, bronze has a lot of copper in it and copper is what is actually turning green? Also, if any red coloring fades, you will be left with nothing to cancel anything green so that can also happen (complementary colors cancel each other, red/green blue/orange, yellow/purple, etc).
Les Pauls Log was rejected in the 40's but what it was that made Gibson warm to the idea of producing a solid Electric guitar was Leo Fender started to make one. when Gibson heard about that they said: Find that Guy with the Broomstick with pickups on it.
Man. I wish this was longer. Just make a 40 minute video of the camera moving around each of these. Close ups, pans, etc.
Beautiful collection
I would love to own that 55'!!!! I hope to buy it one day
the most beautiful gutairs I've ever seen I'm my life in 19 years I would get the 56 on the spot
I have a 53 with trapeze bridge. Got it in late 60. My brother found in a pawnshop in southern California and my parents sent him the money to get it for me. It cost 65 dollars for the guitar and 35 dollars for a Gibson amp. I still play the guitar and it plays great. Amp gave up the ghost many years ago.
This music
Hell
Great video! Thank you for making and posting,
im one of the proud owner of 57 ri
I had a goldtop and sold it for 800$ because i got into a bad drug habbit when i was 20 :( biggest regret of my life. Im 25 now. And been clean over a year. Just bought a new les paul finally. Still saving to get a goldtop again. Had p90s a d was perfect. I saved from 15 till i was 18. Working 50+ a week. I didnt even buy a car till after. Lol all i cared about was getting my dream goldtop. Bought one for almost 5k
Best things I've seen in my life ! Great job guys continue !
Beautiful guitars for sure. I won’t be getting any vintage gear as I’m a budget guy, but I will eventually have a Gibson Les Paul and will be happy to play the piss out of it till I croak and my grandson can play it. Big Warren Haynes fan and just have to get one someday.
I wonder what happened to the missing top ear on that stop bar on the '57. I've never seen that happen before.
Wonderful video !!!
THxxXXx guys
;-)
Awesome info and video.
Is there a video like this that you guys made but with fender stratocasters?
WOW! This was beautifully done! Love it!! Next treatment - perhaps the Strat, pretty please?!? I'm a sucker for anything Strat!
I like how they say that the "collaboration" element between manufacturer and guitarist was something new lol... Gretsch, Mosrite and multiple other manufacturers all did it around this time.
What song is that in the intro?
Works of art! Great video!
Wanna visit there and see those jewels by spedning the whole day.
P.S. You guys are very nice hosts.
Great video guys!
The guitars were great! the music was depressing.
Facts.
The music was depressing because we won't able to buy any of them :)
@@OzzGuitar right - not even reissues, crazy. And most won't be played - too expensive and "collectable". I'll be called out for crying "sour grapes" but I still say a damn shame and a waste. Like Harley-Davidson, Gibson is catering to doctors, lawyers, bankers and other non-playing types (no offense meant to doctors lawyers bankers who do play). These featured guitars are exquisite, however.
How?, its not like those shitty distorted music that pawn stars would put in a background.
Paradise!!!
Awesome video, but I think you guys should have a video where you play em all.
Brilliant! Thank you!
outstanding.
Good job as always Hershman! :)
What was the awesome intro music?
55' is the Ultimate Hard Rock instrument/Symbol!
This video is gold 😉
i wish i had a good music store around here nobody has good vintage within a 3 hour drive
PLAY THEM!!! PLAY THEM!!!!!!
WOW So cool........
I'm a proud owner of '60 LP
Wilandovsky You don't like the hardware? Then switch it. But plenty thousands of people find the Les Paul to be a perfectly suitable and functional instrument. I've almost never snapped a string on a Les Paul, at least not any more than any other guitar, I've gotten plenty of sustain out of a Les Paul, and rarely have i gone out of tune on one (I actually go out of tune more on my strat which people say never go out of tune). Maybe you've simply had a bad couple Les Pauls, or maybe they just don't suit you. But that's no reason to bash the guitars or the people that they have suited for such a long time.
I don't have a les Paul, but I'm hoping to get one soon. I've broken about 5 strings during sets on my Tele :-)
guitargeekforjesus They are great guitars, much warmer and deeper than a tele or strat. They are not for everyone though, just like a tele or strat isnt for everyone. None the less you will probably like it.
Jimmy Gilmour I played a mid range one at guitar center and really dug the feel of it. Saving up for a custom shop 1960! I'm a huge jimmy page fan and I've always enjoyed the tones he's got. Looking to pair it with a tweed though instead of a Marshall. Love the meatiness of the les paul tone. And btw, thanks for being a decent human being with your reply :-)
guitargeekforjesus No problem, and there you go! Those reissues and custom shop models based on the ones from the 50's and 60's are awesome. I'm looking to get a 1959 reissue VOS soon and I'm excited. You'll definitely have a guitar suited to Page with that Les Paul, but I don't know how close a Page sound you're going to get with a tweed, as he pretty commonly played a marshall that was cranked to max. Either way that Les Paul will do you well.
guitargeekforjesus Note that the VOS series is yet another major 'gotch'ya' product sold by Gibson to cork-sniffers. There's a number of reasons for it, which of course don't matter, because if somebody likes the looks of the product and the advertisement behind it, they will buy it anyways, and the G-company know about it and take advantage of it (among these reasons is the fact that VOS Les Pauls sound WAY different that the early Les Pauls and very different from Page's guitar, old Les Pauls used unspotted pickups which picked up microphonics, the VOS series uses regular wax-potted pickups, which do not pick up microphonics but Gibson, of course, will not tell you that in the specs). I'm not bitching here, I own a Gibson guitar myself, I'm just telling you the truth.
The truth is, apart from a few cosmetic suggestions, Les Paul had very little input to the initial design of the guitar that bears his name. Ted McCarty and John Huis did most of the work. Les Paul’s involvement was largely driven by marketing and the need to create a stir that would direct attention away from the emerging Fender guitars. They succeeded! I’ve never understood why the 57 gold top is seen as inferior to the 58/59 sunburst guitars. As these guys point out the 57 gold top is the birth of the modern Les Paul. Little has changed in terms of the basic set up and build, although probably the new guitars are of a significantly higher quality - I doubt if the paint would chip and fall of a modern LP so easily.
Never appreciated the vintage thing until now. Wow.
cool video
La guitarra de mis sueños que nunca la tendre la mas hermosa guitarra del planeta tierra parami
Gibson and it’s Factory ....looking ,,,, Feeling,,, Being There....
Your Honoured... because you don’t know what to Expect.... Awsome
Takes its Toll.... and in my Eyes !!!!! I Had To Drag myself Away from the Building .....When l. Left l was Hurting ...my Son Craig said ...Eh!!!?Dad your Druelling At the mouth????
My 1sy guitar teacher had one of these with p90s i forget which one it was but he did say it was from the golden era and it was worn out lioke the 55' here. I was so nervous that I sweat all over it and had to apologise. Some one broke into his house and took his strat and sg bass but left this one with the case open not knowing what it was and just thought "old crap guitar".
I would think the Torres guitar would utterly eclipse the gibson LP and even the big F Strat. Over 100 years of making them and still the most prominent guitar design.
hi guys,
les paul wanted to have a gold finish because his car was gold :D he just wanted his guitar to mach with his car haha there is an inteview where his is telling that story.
this is where old gold tops come
Goldtops are dope.
How can I get the music in this video?
Aryeh East.
Hey I'd like to get some of this music by Aryeh East, but i can't seem to find it, how can I??
For Les Paul models, especially the newer custom shop reissues, the gold top is THE model. Sure the burst/flame tops are nice but I personally find them overused and static. The double gold finish Gibson is using now is visually striking and imo the most accurate gold color to that of the 50s. The curved top on gold tops are more pronounced and look great.
Any link to that intro song? Sounds awesome!
do an SG history video
3:05 my ears..... are... bleeding....
song at the beginning? :)
hold that collection ;)
what song is this in the intro???
Gibson Les Paul the baby years awwwww.
dreamy!!!!!
you can find a 52 for about 20grand.people are buying them up and converting them to bursts. and selling them for 35grand.
I HAVE a 1968 SG
No gold sparkle? Gold sparkle is the best looking gold top!
Memphis The Moment you Step into that Vast Emporium And you Exist
The innovation...that stopped in '59 :/
Man why is the background music like a horror docu on Netflix
I think if you look closely you'll find that my amps are not constrained by the confines of numbers and will in fact go to infinity.
A little bit disappointed because there is no 1968 goldtop.
No '57 ?!
David sounds like Tom Hanks.
This was a great video, but the soundtrack was just enraging. Very distracting, and definitely not the right vibe for the era of guitars and music.
the 57 is missing !!!
Hahaha I'm sorry for the goofy comment but the owner looks like the Dr. Evil
Too much talking
Who oked this music?
I like the introductory music, very eerie and for some reason makes you feel kind of uncomfortable, lol
#guitarporn
no it´s not just kidding !!!
Not enough playing
P90s rule!
b1
Background music sucks,,. I felt sick,,.
Thé mots beautiful thune on thé world os not â supercar or Anything élse. It's â Gibson les Paul.
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And due to thousands of cork-sniffers, Les Paul remains a crappy guitar since 1957. It's the cork-sniffers who won't buy a guitar with a real bridge instead of the horrible tune-o-matic junk that snaps the strings and due to razor-sharp saddles kills the sustain, a guitar without this horrible headstock tilt that forbids doing behind the nut bends and make the headstock easy to break, a guitar with a bolt-on neck that is possible to replace, a guitar with a roller nut that will actually allow the Les Paul to stay in tune for more than one song for the first time in history! Gibson used to make WONDERFUL guitars (with a Les Paul body shape) with all that in the Norlin era, but the cork-sniffers wouldn't buy it. Because it was simply better. No, cork-sniffers want the 1950's! So, Les Pauls must remain wall-hangers with horrible, horrible, horrible solutions reminiscent of the 1950's. Damn you, cork-sniffers!
What's a cork sniffer?
Wilandovsky Wow,what a loser! I guess because your broke ass can’t afford one you have to knock it. Grow up ass bag.
Panic42000 there are alot more guitars that do a better job than a les paul for much less and still retain high quality. If I got a Gibson it would be an sg the only Gibson I've liked both the feel and sound off but I'm rocking a gretsch for now.
old gibsons 🖒 new gibsons 💩
Absolutely I would put my PRS up against a Gibson Les Paul any day
You sure those arent some chinese knock offs?