{"id":67359,"date":"2017-10-16T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=67359"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:00:52","slug":"1960-les-paul-burst-wow-gimme-one-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/16\/1960-les-paul-burst-wow-gimme-one-please\/","title":{"rendered":"1960 Les Paul Burst [Wow] Gimme One Please"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"1960 Les Paul Burst<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n

[CG]<\/strong> Trevor, tell us about this special guitar that graces our CG calendar page and how it came into your hands at Emerald City Guitars in Seattle.<\/p>\n

[Trevor Boone]<\/strong> First, Joe Bonamassa is one of my favorite guys ever and is a dear friend of mine. I have sold some instruments to him and sold some for him. Joe was making room for a purchase, and we kicked around the idea of finding a home for this 1960 Gibson Les Paul burst that he owned.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Meanwhile, I have a customer turned friend who lives up here in the Northwest who was getting into Les Paul bursts himself. He wanted to find the best one.<\/p>\n

Now Joe is not only a great player, but to me, he is an authority on Les Paul bursts. He has been able to travel around and pick them up from interesting places and he thrives on an instrument\u2019s originality and provenance.<\/p>\n

So, I knew about this 1960 guitar that Joe had bought in middle America from the original owner. Joe sent us some pictures and I talked with my client\/friend and told him that since Joe was now willing to sell it, we needed to look at it. Next I flew out to Joe\u2019s place in Los Angeles to see the guitar in person, and it blew my mind! It was the cleanest burst I had ever seen! Built in later 1960, it was super clean and had an unfaded top. It had a thin neck, it was light weight and had really aggressive PAF pick-ups. It was unbelievable! The case was in as good condition as the guitar was. Everything looked perfect and untouched. I flew the guitar back to Seattle and hand delivered it to my guy who bought it! He was happy to add it to his collection.<\/p>\n

A couple of years later, after my guy had purchased a few more things, he discovers that he liked \u201859 bursts. So eventually I helped him find a \u201859 Les Paul, and in that deal we took this 1960 burst in as a trade.<\/p>\n

This guitar is largely uncirculated. Joe has played it and it is featured on some of his DVD\u2019s. It is a magnificent example of the cleanest burst I have seen. I was asked by Paul Allen to appraise another 1960 burst, just a couple of months apart from this one, which appraised for $300,000. That one was not as clean. They had an identical neck profile. This one\u2019s top has a richer red to it and the back looks untouched! There seems to be a pattern that every time a burst changes hands, it goes up a little bit in value.<\/p>\n

A lot of people think the sweet spot for bursts is the \u201859. And they are right \u2013 it\u2019s iconic. But I personally have a lot of affinity for these 60\u2019s. I have found that a thinner neck really complements the qualities of the PAF pick-ups. Where the \u201859\u2019s have that round feeling, a \u201860 has that little bit less wood and a thinner neck backing it up, which makes for a more aggressive, biting, mid focused guitar. I have probably played 35-40 bursts and the \u201860\u2019s have more and more become my favorites. They are a little bit lighter and they also have a little lesser of a price tag (laughing). I feel like they are mean guitars and deliver what I want to hear in a Les Paul burst.<\/p>\n

When you are dealing with old growth wood, all of these guitars are different. Each instrument has been exposed to different things, the wood finish soaks up the elements of what they were exposed to\u2026 different rooms and bars they were in\u2026 it all affects the sound. I come from a Telecaster perspective and I appreciate the twang and brightness that Tele\u2019s have. So, to my ears, the 1960 Les Paul\u2019s are really fun guitars. This super clean one has an asking price of $325,000.<\/p>\n

Then again, you hear Bonamassa play a \u201859 and it cripples you, you know? It also has a lot to do with how you are playing the guitar. Coming from a \u201852 Fender blackguard Tele, the \u201860\u2019s Les Paul\u2019s have a crossover appeal for me.<\/p>\n

\u00a0–\u00a0By <\/span>[CG Staff]<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1960 Les Paul Burst [CG] Trevor, tell us about this special guitar that graces our CG calendar page and how it came into your hands at Emerald City Guitars in Seattle. [Trevor Boone] First, Joe Bonamassa is one of my favorite guys ever and is a dear friend of mine. I have sold some instruments to him and sold some for him. Joe was making room for a purchase, and we kicked around the idea of finding a home for this 1960 Gibson Les Paul burst that he owned. Meanwhile,<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}