For ONLY $15,294, YOU can own a "Billy Gibbons 'Pearly Gates' Les Paul Standard"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Billy Gibbons 'Pearly Gates' Les Paul Standard

You won’t believe the figured maple tops. Each one was carefully selected especially for the Gibbons’ ‘Pearly Gates’ model, and each is as beautiful as the top that adorns the original. If choice Les Paul maple tops make do for you, these will make you drool. Get your spittoon ready!

Gibson Custom has matched the faded Billy Gibbons Burst finish almost perfectly. You’ll do a double-take the first time you see it. The naturally darkened edges give way to the beautiful patterns of the maple grain. Even the original’s distinct red mahogany back is intact. Granted, no two guitars could ever have exactly the same top and finish. But maybe this is as close as it gets.

Gibbons uses Pearly Gates only in the studio. In concert, he relies on Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbuckers to replicate its legendary tone. The Seymour Duncan Web site says they’re “sweet, but slightly rude, with great sustain and a bright top end that make harmonics jump out of the guitar.” Isn’t that what Billy Gibbons does every time he picks up his ‘Pearly Gates?’ Now you can too.

http://www2.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/Les-Paul/Gibson-Custom/Billy-Gibbons-Pearly-Gates-Les-Paul-Standard.aspx

[old mark]

1. Pretty, but Gibson has been making the guitars worse and charging

ridiculous prices for decades.
They still make some very fine guitars, but they are way too much money, and the Les Pauls are not even close to the way they uesd to be made.
I had a '69 and a '71, Les Paul Custom, both nice guitars, but neither worth what they would bring today.

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[driver8]

2. Pay an extra 10K and you get Billy Gibbons' autograph!

I like Gibson guitars, but not for that much money!