Gibson '60 Les Paul Classic

Howdy folks, I play r&b, r&r, Delta & Chicago Blues, plus anything with a beat that gets the HIP SHAKIN', FOOT STOMPIN',THANG GOIN' ON....Here's the deal; If your Les Paul feels "too heavy" Then you just ain't cut out to play a Les Paul. If you can't handle a 10 pound guitar, then you sure as the devil can't handle a HIP SHAKIN' WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! OWWW Bump on up against me baby!!!

It sounds like the neighbor lady when her husbands gone off to work.

She falls under my fingers just right....just like the neighbor lady (while he's gone off to work!)

All B/S Aside; This Les Paul will play for a long time. 'nuff said.

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I've been playing long enough to pay for your sisters abortion.
I own whips, chains, and other fun stuff.
I wish I'd asked about parking validation.
If it were stolen or lost...NO I WOULDN"T BUY IT BACK. I'D KILL THE MOTHERFUCKER WHO STOLE IT AND THEN calmly take my stuff back.
I Love it because it's my guitar.
She plays just right and we get along just fine.

'60 LP Classic Heritage Cherry burst. Bought used on EBAY. Ceramic magnet humbuckers and all the other regular LP features. Mine is a couple years old and does not have the horrible green tinted tuners and inlays. Instead, mine are vintage looking but not green. Cream pick guard with "1960" on it. IF you look hard for a used one you can find one that isn't quite so garish as the new ones.

As many have mentioned the pickups are very loud and harsh. I was looking for a classic thick LP tone, instead I couldn't tell any difference between this and my Ibanez S470. I finally changed the pickups to Lindy Fralin PAF humbuckers. NOW it's a Les Paul! What a difference. It sings and has such a warm complex tone. If you play metal the original pickups are fine, otherwise you are better off changing them for more variety. I score it a 7 with originals, 10 now.

This is where this guitar is every bit as good as the standard. I spent a few extra dollars when I had the pickups installed and had it properly set up. It plays like a dream. The neck is fast and the guitar just has such a solid feel.

So far so good, but it is very heavy to me. My other guitars a Strat and the Ibanez are much lighter. But, they don't sound like this either.

Have never had to deal wih Gibson so far.

I am 41 and have been playing since I was 13. I have always been a strat fan but have always wanted a Les Paul. I knew from these reviews that it needed different pickups for the blues and rock sounds I wanted. Now that I changed I love it!

I had a 2002 Gibson Les Paul Classic, heritage cherry sunburst! This was pretty cool!

This guitar sounded great! I used it in the studio and played out with it live once! It was great for rocknroll! I just never got into the toggle switch where it's located! I usually use the bridge pickup and have the neck pickup turned off! but the way I play, I rock out hard and I usually hit the toggle and turn off the bridge pickup! That's the thing that sucks about Les Pauls! Other than that, it's a beautiful fawkin' guitar!!!

It was set up pretty good!

This is a heavy guitar and probably one I've wanted for years because I've seen them for years and didn't have any money! I guess I was in the right place at the right time! Very lucky! Great sustain! Kinda reminded me of my first Les paul which was a studio! But twice the price! I actually wish I still had this guitar, well actually both guitars! Oh well!

I've been playin' for almost 14 years! I play a 1990 Hall of fame Gibson Les Paul Junior TV yellow double cutaway through a Mesa Boogie f-50 1/12 combo!

American made 2003 Gibson Les Paul Classic Goldtop. Mahogany body with carved, bound maple top, 22 fret bound mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard, Two Gibson ceramic magnet humbuckers (496R, 500T), two volume and two tone controls with tophat knobs, threeway pickup selector, nickel ABR bridge and classic tuners, thin 60's style neck, aged inlays, black hardcase.

I play just about anything from blues to metal and this guitar can do it all!. I run it through a Marshall JCM900 100w with a 1960a cab and it can deliver deep, clean tones right through to full on distortion. The pickups really drive the tubes and the Marshall just laps it up. saying that, I've also run the guitar through a 30w Marshall transistor amp and the results weren't so great. This guitar needs a tube amp to get the best out of it, hence the 9/10 rating.

The guitar was set-up fine when I got it and my Tech said that he'd done nothing to it so all credit to the Gibson boys. The finish is perfect and I can honestly say that there isn't a single fault on it

It's a Les Paul... these things will survive just about anything. Just be careful with the headstock! Strap locks are worth a thought if your the energetic type. If I had to, I'd gig this one without a backup, but I tend to always have a second guitar around in case of string breaks.

I've never had call to use them. Lifetime warranty (though this is doesn't necessarily apply in the UK!!)

This is one fine guitar. I've been playing since 1980 and have amassed a modest collection but this guitar is the centrepiece without a doubt. I also own a Gibson Les Paul Studio, Gibson Explorer, Fender American Std Strat, Fender Semi-Acoustic and an old Hohner Les Paul copy (my first guitar!). Amp-wise, I'm a Marshall guy, with a JCM900 100W plus 1960a cab, Marshall 30w and an AS50R. The only pedals I use are a Crybaby and a Boss DD3. The LP Classic basically gives me everything I need so i can't see me needing to buy anything else for quite a while.

2001 classic cherry burst with stock pickups

i play all kinds of music. i run a mesa triple rectifier three channel, aleseis quadraverb, marshall 9005 stereo tube power amp, marshall 1960 a cab, marshall 1960 b cab (vintage 30's)i use the 9005 to power the b cab for stereo effects.quiet as hell! sounds like freight train but the ceramic pickups are just too sterile. heres where the dilema starts, i also bought a gibson les paul gary moore signature the same day i bought the classic. the gary sounds FAT AS HELL! like Leslie West after a buffet! just kidding love that guy. solution bought gibson burts buckr 2 + 3 STERILE NO MORE. i love my classic more than any other guitar i have ever owned!!!! 29 to be exact. vintage gibsons and fenders, charvel san dimas, old usa deans to name a few. a few of my friends own les pauls and they all wish they had it. sometimes people get lucky when they buy a guitar, i feel i hit the lotto every time i pick my classic.

no guitar is perfect, this one was nice from the factory. set up by store tech awesome. stays in tune, even with extreme bends, finish was excellent

IT'S A FREAKIN' LES PAUL!!!!!
PUT THE STRAPLOCKS ON AND LOOSE YOUR MIND!!!

never a problem

been playing 25 years, said what i use in the sound section, plus a custom strat w/ floyd rose, emg 85, s, sa, and a warmoth soloist i am currently building. if it were stolen i would put a gun to my head for being so stupid! seriously overall, with the ceramics a 7 with the burstbuckers a 10!!! this is a players dream plays like butter, tones to die for, in classic les paul style

2001 honeyburst. Bought it "new" from a dealer who'd had it hanging on the wall for quite a while - thus, the great deal. Has the hot ceramic humbuckers and "aged" plastic inlays which can look o.k. or vomit-stained depending on the light. Old style kluson type tuners. Slim-taper neck. Other than that, a Les paul Standard for all practical purposes. They could ditch the ceramic pups(I like alnico) and plastic inlays(I like pearl - but then I would've had to have
paid about $800 more).

Great primary tone!!!--gobs of sustain and resonance throughout the neck, headstock and body. I run it into a Hiwatt DC40 Bulldog(4xEl84) sometimes straight, sometimes through an fx processor. Also through two Roland amps - JC120 or BC60, Sounds best through the Hiwatt(can't beat tubes).
The pickups are adequate for the styles I play - a hodge-podge of blues, rock, hard rock, pop and mellow stuff. They work best for hard rock or metal. The main problems are they're kind of sterile sounding, have scooped mids and are too bright. I'm a tweaker and I've done the whole thing: pickup and pole height adjustments, tone and volume knob adjusyment etc. What has made me decide to change to alnico pickups is checking out my friend's 1978 Les Paul Standard with original pickups - the tone was there and I didn't have to dick around with tweaking this and that, when I plugged it into my Hiwatt, leaving the settings where I had them set for the Classic, his Standard nailed the sound I had been looking for all along! Like I said, the pickups are adequate - but I didn't buy a Les Paul for adequate - so...OUT they go! I'll probably try Antiquities or Fralin's.
With the right pickups and amp(s), a Les Paul can cover a ton of styles from Jazz to Metal with everything in between - this one, stock, is great for hard rock to metal - but o.k. for anything else.

Once the tech at the shop I bought from did a fret dress and nut cut - it was great! That should speak enough for itself. Other than that, the "bookmatching"(they don't technically book match this model) is pretty darn close, the finish is very nice, the tuners stay in tune extremely well. Electronics work great etc.

You need to take care of your stuff.

Been playing 20+ years. Have this, a Strat and a Taylor. I've always wanted a Les Paul - ever since, as a wee lad, I saw and heard my big brother's Humble Pie - "Rockin' the Fillmore" album. If something happened to this one, I wouldn't wait quite as long to get another. I would shop around and try for the best quality, cheapest Les Paul I could find (New or used). You have to play as many as you can though. The Classics seened to be the most consistent in quality
especially compared to the Standards, which had a lot of dogs among them. A custom would be my dream guitar,(love Ebony and Pearl). But new ones are about twice what I paid and they aren't twice the guitar.
I love the sustain, playability and vibe of my Les Paul. I dislike the pickups and the plastic inlays on the Classic, but it really is a solid instrument so it gets and 8

2000 - Les Paul Classic - GOLD TOP!
Usual Les features, 2x tone 2x volume knobs and PUP selector (3 way).
Lovely slim neck, and I've got big hands, but this seems to fit nicer than my White Custom, and I never thought I'd EVER say that.
GOld Top Finish, what else can ya say, Cool As F**k!!
496R Pup in Neck and 500T Ceramic in Bridge.

This is where I get a little confused reading these reviews. This is a 1960 Re-Issue, basically a specialised model of Les Paul. If you buy this guitar surely you would buy it for the slightly harsher sounding higher output PUP's, not buy this expecting to get the sound of a Standard or Custom with Stock PUP's in!!! I don't really think that's rocket science. I bought this as an alternative to my Custom which has a "FAT" Seymour '59 in the neck, my Classic is the same as Craddock from Ocean Colour Scene plays and that's the sound I wanted, glassy, pronounced high end, switch to mid or neck and it calms down nicely to a mellow less driven purr. Also sounds great clean, you can coax loads of different sounds out of it because of the 500T being so powerful, it gives a nice variation with a flick of the PUP selector. I play mine through either my Orange AD30TC or my Sound City 50+ with 4x12" Cab. My style is 'Brit' sound Indie, I use a mix of clean and O/D and quite a bit of Delay and Wah, plenty of arpeggios and chords and a good amount of lead lines too. What do I sound like? Mmmmm, a mix of OCS, Led Zep, Coldplay and Haven etc, this is the BEST sound I've ever had, my Custom has it's place but this is my No1. And did I mention, it looks so damn COOL!

BOught my S/H and it was set up great for me, I will be sending it to my tech for a Pro Set up and may have the action lowered very very slightly, but that wuld be picky to moan about. Others have also moaned about the hardware beng "over aged", well, it's about rightly aged for a 1960 guitar, so if you want it to look newer, buy a new one

It's slightly lighter than my Custom which is nice, but as with most Les paul's it's built to last, I can't see myself ever having a problem with it.

Never actually had a problem with a Gibson so far, but I have heard mixed stories, so I can only mark this based on those

As I said, this is a great guitar if it's what you want! If you don't want the distinct sound of the PUP's go and buy a different model, what's the point in buying a 60's Classic and turning it into a Standard, save the extra cash and go buy what you want, it's not much more. Try one before you buy and start winging, thats why Guitar Shops have little rooms down the back with amps in!!

This is a great guitar, that looks, sounds and is made v v well. Can't fault it

2003 22 fet piece of art

let me start of by saying i play 80s metal, none of this new drop d massive distortion crap that is so popular these days. i have been playing for 25+ years and have owned just about every guitar amp combo on the planet and i use this guitar run into a boss ge-7 eq straight into my 86 marshall jcm 800 and there is no better sounding rig in the universe! this guitar is not for newer "players" that want to set in their bedroom and sound like a pro playing thru a line 6 piece of junk. i get all the distortion i need and it is a clean sound not like a active super dist. p.u. strapped to a log. this is a pro guitar for a pro player.

i picked it up at the music store , took it to practice and played it like i had been playing on it for years. the guitar practically plays its self. a true pleasure to play.

its a gibson, nuff said, will last a life time if taken care of.

never had to deal with them so cant really say.

like i said this is for a player that knows what tone is and what a real guitar should feel like. it will not cover mistakes, it will not make you sound better that you are, but it will bring out the best in you. if it was stolen i would spend the rest of my life hunting the bastard down then take pleasure in slowly torturing them to death!

My experience was very similar to Ken's (below). Same guitar, same price, same deal, same shipping experience, and I bought the guitar for pretty much the same reasons at right about the same time from the same place (zZounds). I think this is a GREAT guitar. I also have a 2001 Studio and a 2000 American Deluxe Fat Strat, and the 2003 Classic is by far the best of these three. You can see, feel, and hear how well made the Classic is. However, I think it should come with locking tuners and PU covers. The hardware should be as great as the neck and the body.

Not a wide variety of available sounds, but if you want that thick Les Paul tone, the Classic has it. I don't know if you like the LP Studio sound (I do), but side by side the Classic is clearer and rounder (and louder) than the Studio. I love all three of my guitars, but the Classic is in a different class.

The neck is incredible. Great fret-work. Very smooth and playable. The action is low, but not buzzy. Good setup right out of the box. No flaws. It stays in tune.

The Classic is a very solidly built guitar. I don't know if it will be as tough and reliable as my Stratocaster (the Studio isn't), but the Classic isn't fragile at all.

I highly recommend this guitar. I also highly recommend zZounds.com. I don't work for them and I don't know anyone who does. I don't buy or sell things on Ebay, so I have no interest in helping guitar prices rise. I'd really prefer guitar prices to fall. From my point of view, it's very hard to pay more than a grand for a guitar. However, the Classic is worth it. It really is.

Borrowed, not bought, Cherryburst. Slim-taper, ceramic pickups and all the rest discussed below. Looks and feels fine, though LP's are not comfortable guitars, take it or leave it - you're back in the sixtys .

Well I think it sounds pretty terrible, and my Marshall, Rivera & Fenders are pretty good tube amps - thank you. This guitar was a mistake - what Gibson's trying to copy is beyond me. I would never gig with this thing, how mono-tone! It has no sweet spot. Well, to each his own.

OK, nothing great. There are so many cool guitars at this price point it's hard to get excited by one more trick LP

I would ignore any review that gave this guitar`10s, I think they're trying to pump the score for eBay. I you like this guitar, great, but if you looking and undecided you really should play the field a little before you put your money down. I think most serious guitarist would say there are much better ways to spend your money.