Warren Haynes' 'Illegal' Les Paul That Was Played with the Allman Brothers

The heralded guitarist details and demos a rare chime machine.

Maestro Warren Haynes invited PG’s John Bohlinger to Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, where they hang out after Gov’t Mule’s soundcheck and take a tour through his live rig. This Gibson-heavy collection has been a 40-year-work in progress for the guitarist, who has spent his career playing with David Allan Coe, Dickey Betts, The Allman Brothers, The Dead, leading Gov’t Mule, and much, much more.

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[Bigfoot-pxgj]

Back when he first joined the Allman Brothers Band, I read an article where he was talking about how humbled he was to be in the band and playing Duane Allman's parts. That article gave me a lot of respect for him.

[jrshelton]

I can pick Warren playing out of a million players, his phrasing is unique as hell.

[RolandSpecialSauce]

I think that we can all agree that John's enthusiasm takes these interviews to another level. Great guy!

[edbigtruck]

Warren is such a great player and is just as humble as can be during his Interviews.

[peterkoutros]

The old saying.. guitar, amp or player?.. Warren and that guitar are awesome!

[olivergiles]

So.., they can't legally sell it because it has 2 extra screw holes but the ones they do sell for thousands have major QC issues.
Hmm.

[DeeTee]

Warren: It had no tuners.
John: But it was strung up?
😔

[pfpublius]

One of my all time fav albs is Gov't Mule's The Deepest End. Warren is amazing!

[__fernando.araujo__]

OMG! Awesome tone! Slide, YEAH!!! 🤘 👏👏👏👏

[Cheffrank]

Love this video! Man does that guitar sound great Warren can freaking play

[riodejaneiro]

That Paul sound amazing, such personality, simply beautiful.

[robstonezone]

I coveted that guitar for a long time…never knew that story lol😮

[TonyWeesner-okpp]

Damn thangs have a soul of their own beautiful guitar.

[jppagetoo]

That tone is something I have heard so many times. Live versions of "Old Friend" come to mind. It looks like the one he used in the early days of the Mule. He stopped playing it after Allen passed. Is this that same one? I sure looks and sounds like it.

[_Yep_Yep_]

"It will take about 15 or 20 minutes." Hahahah!

[rickhites]

I am not worthy, lol. What an amazing player with a magnificent guitar.

[johnpandolfino]

Amazing I have a 61' reissue SG with Classic everyone says I sound the best with that guitar in my

[realledbetter]

Those 2 little screw holes on or around the 21st fret of the lower bout can easily be filled in & repaired in a way that you would never have know that they were there. But Warren doesn’t care cause this guitar sounds good. Maybe those holes are actually adding to the guitar’s acoustic resonance.

[paisteplayer]

Gibson is like zildjian, they get it right once in a while

[usernameinvalid]

Pretty sure this was the guitar he was playing the 1995 House of Blues show, that Dreams solo he played was epic…