Model: Gibson Les Paul Deluxe
Color: Cherry Sunburst
Year: 1970s
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Used in...
- 1999
- played during the recording sessions of the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Details
The Les Paul Deluxe model debuted in 1970.
The main difference between a Deluxe and a Standard is the pickups: Deluxes come fitted with mini-humbuckers, which have a brighter top end and less bass compared to full-sized humbuckers.
Interestingly, those mini-humbuckers were originally used in Epiphone guitars, which - until 1969 - were made at the same Gibson factory in Kalamazoo. When Epiphone production moved to Japan, some say that Gibson introduced mini-humbuckers into the Les Paul line to use up leftover stock from the old Epiphone models.1
This Les Paul has never been played live - or publicly seen.
The only known photo dates back to May 1999, where it appears in a rack of guitars used during the Standing on the Shoulder of Giants sessions at Château de la Colle Noire in Southern France. The photo, needless to say, was taken by legendary rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky.
This is where the mystery gets deep. In a 2002 interview, when asked about new instruments that shaped the sound of the album, Noel did mention a Les Paul Deluxe - but finished in Wine Red:2
"A Fender Strat and a '60s Telecaster that Johnny Depp bought me for my 30th birthday. And I had just bought this really cool, wine-red '80s Les Paul Deluxe. But it wasn't so much the guitars that changed the sound of the album -- it was the amps. For example, I'd never used a Fender amp on any of my records. It was always Marshalls, Marshalls, and more Marshalls."
Did he buy two Deluxes around 1999 - a Wine Red model from the '80s and a Cherry Sunburst one? I don't think so. Most likely, Noel was referring to his 1982 Wine Red Les Paul Standard in that interview and simply mixed up the model names.
It is quite likely that the only Les Paul Deluxe he's ever owned is the Cherry Sunburst one.
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- https://www.vintageguitarandbass.com/gibson/Les_Paul_Deluxe.php ↩︎
- Guitar One Magazine, September 2002 ↩︎
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