The Most Expensive Guitar I've Ever Held! - Max Baranet '59 Les Paul Replica

We take a look at a Max Baranet 1959 Gibson Les Paul Replica!

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[christopherbaranet]

Christopher Baranet here. Max was my older brother. I remember first hearing " Sweet Child Of Mine" on the radio. I was living in NYC. I called my brother and said Have you heard of this band called Guns N Roses. He said Yeah the guitar player has one of my guitars. He says " I know them, they used to come into my shop. One day the guitar player came in and said, Max, we just got a record contract with Geffen Records, we're going in the studio and I don't even have a decent guitar to play. Can I buy a guitar from you? Max says my guitars are all made to order. You can go ahead and borrow my Max guitar, which I made for myself. Slash recorded A for D, came back later, and bought the guitar. That was the story Max told me, before G n R became so famous. When my brother died he left about 10 or so of his guitars. He died without a will. Unfortunately, my two sisters who are Scientologists, Tina and Michelle stole all of his guitars.

[fongy]

I have a left handed Kriss Derrig 59 replica, he made it in the 80's, God rest his soul.

[GuitarBazaar]

That is a great guitar. It does have Brazillian rosewood fret board and Bumblebee caps. I personally wound the PAF replica pickups that are in it.

[bobby]

Is that not the same guy who was making fun of you on Johnnie the douche bags show? asking for a friend

[BrianSGuitars]

I love my R0! The custom shop CustomBucker pickups are fantastic!

[rockdaddy]

Sweet guitar. Great info. You really do know your Les Paul's. Thanks guys, been learning alot. Good video.

[jameylane]

There are interviews out there on Kris Derrig with his brother Dale. It was Kris's guitar that saved Appetite for Destruction, Slash didn't have a Les Paul at that point. Kris graduated from Berkeley College of music and was an extremely good guitar player himself. His brother stated he used to go with him searching for 100 year old maple from barns. Kris used to spit on the wood to test it.

[kbutler]

Excellent history lesson. Did Max Baranet use a serial number system that would allow someone to identify one of his guitars? Or did he not use SNs? Thank you.

[bigjohnson]

I've played my buddies 1958 Gibson LP. It was handed down to him when his father passed away.

[RRLockingnut]

Paul with the Les Paul knowledge 👊🏼 Right on Gentlemen!!

[WaveInvalidator]

Tune the damn thing for Chrissakes. And have somebody that can play do the demo

[tfjhewq]

That demo probably knocked off 10k of value.

[Anson]

Didnt he die from accidentally inhaling the fumes from the lacquer? Death by guitar.

[spaceman]

Les paul used to say if it says les paul on the headstock its a les paul .

[vanhalenjhs]

sweet guitar, Paul is full of great information to. Awesome

[glennyocklin]

Gotta keep Paul as a regular 👍👍🎸🎸🎸 sure is educational.

[OfficialKevinFox]

On that Gibson R9, that’s some pretty terrible binding bleed. Original 59s never had that bad of bleeding. To be honest, they didn’t have a lot of binding bleed really at all. It’s only been a modern Custom ship thing that I’ve ever seen. Which it looks horrendous and I’d be sending that one back if I were you guys.

[JuddLofthouse]

I wish I lived in the USA I would love to visit your store zimm 👍👍

[putzengiler]

Learn something new everyday still, never heard of either the Derrig or the Baranet LP replicas...very cool ! sad that Derrig passed so young...Slash guitar gear tech videos brought me here..

[nbenning]

Beautiful guitar … did each Max guitar get a serial number?