Les Pauls Don't Normally Do This... | 1972 Gibson Les Paul Signature Custom Stereo Guitar

Les Pauls Don't Normally Do This... | RARE 1972 Gibson Les Paul Signature Custom Stereo
This is an INSANELY rare find! It is 1 of only 3 currently-known examples to exist. The other two are in the collection of Pat Smear of the Foo Fighters and ex-collection of David Gilmour (Pink Floyd.) If you have one - I'd love to see photos! This is the "Les Paul Signature Custom Stereo" with an all-maple body!

🐕 Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro - Check Links in the Description
0:15 - Unboxing
1:41 - Features of This Model
2:37 - Was This a Prototype?
3:29 - What Normal Les Paul Customs Look Like
3:48 - A New Les Paul Model?
4:30 - How Many Exist? / Who Owns Them?
5:36 - How I Found This Guitar
7:10 - First Impressions
8:16 - Inside Look / Specs
19:49 - Clean Tones
23:03 - Dirty Tones
28:11 - Final Thoughts
30:25 - What to Watch Next!

🎞️ Videos Mentioned:
1:11 1972 Gibson SG Deluxe Humbuckers with Bigsby

2:50 Steve Howe's 1976 Gibson The Les Paul Wine Red

3:10 1976 Gibson L5-S Cherry Sunburst

3:37 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom 20th Anniversary Natural Flame

3:56 1974 Gibson LP Signature Semi Hollow Gold Top

4:03 2013 Gibson Les Paul Recording II "Reissue"

4:54 Gibson "Headless SG" Meme Guitar

5:07 David Gilmour's $21.5 Million Guitar Collection

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[Trog]

Thanks for checking out this cool Norlin Era oddity!

[StephBol]

The fact I’ve been watching trogly since the carpet era and he can now just casually name drop Pat Smear is hilarious. Congrats Trog

[JokersWild]

With the variety of tones available in either stereo or mono, I bet that's a fun guitar. Another quirky piece of Gibson history, but encased in a beautiful body! 😍 Great find

[richardcarlson]

Very impressive. You are truly giving all of us an in-depth education that can't be found anywhere else. Thanks.

[wooferdevlin]

The "Bowling Pin" is an all strike 300 game!! The sound is amazing, I had Marshall left, and Fender right; when it was balanced in the room, right channel was dominant. BTW, "Chasing Sound is a YT vid. worth watching; all about Les Paul the man. Great info, guests, and humor. He was a tinkering addict and this is the kind of stuff he dreamed up. Genius. Trogly out did himself!! 🐉🐲🦖

[fluxerflixer]

If you want to play through 2 amps “the Framptone” is a noiseless A/B switch. Used to Run a duel rectifier and a VOX AC30 when gigging. Sound was incredible. That’s a cool rare Norlin. I’m surprise how well it was preserved!! The ALL maple gives it a brighter sound for sure.

[davidsharp]

Having the stereo split helps when you mix because it's the same performance times two. It sounds beautiful. This guitar has so many sound oppportunities, the stereo is wonderful.

[patprop]

I really really like the idea and possibilities of the double output and mixing. The guitar looks good and sounds even better. That would be a keeper for me.

[mikeysansan]

I picked up a Rickenbacker bass recently which is essentially the bass version of this setup. Messing around with two amps is heaps of fun!

[jubei]

I used to use a dual set up for gigs back in the 90's, with my old Orange OR120 & an even older AC 30. The sound was awesome. I had twin Marshall stacks either side of the stage, one for each amp & it added a whole other layer of sound onto the band. Still got the OR (never part with it, favourite amp ever) but the poor Vox died an unfortunate death when our bass player pissed on it during post gig shenanigans one night. Killed my amp & the band lol. Ah, good times, good times.

[RussBMCSGT]

Fade to Black would sound absolutely insane on this guitar. This was a really AWESOME demo, I love what that guitar can do!

[I-Libertine]

Love these oddball guitars. Reminds me of my old Sears/Kay Effector Les Paul with the bolt on neck and special effects controls (what an awesome built in distortion on that thing!)

[donaldsimmons]

I like how Trogly was so casual about how he just talked to Pat Smear.

[duanewelsh]

Definitely a keeper. Love it. Sounded awesome on the "Ten years gone" Come on man get that museum goin so I can see this stuff in person.

[Wargasm]

Looks like Mr. Peanut rather than a bowling pin. I vote you rename it: Mr. Peanut 👍🏻

[jeffreygoldstein]

Just a thought. Maybe check out the stereo feature on the 2013 SG Supra. You run a splitter off the output jack to two separate amps. The electric pick ups go to one amp and the power bridge goes to the other amp so the stereo affect is quasi-electric/acoustic. I have one you can borrow to make a video.

[ziggurat]

So happy to have found this video. I own the same guitar. Bought in 1995 at an auction. Original receipt is from Chicago Musical Insrument in Kalamazoo Mich. Special instructions states "gtr is in lab"
Serial number is 673648. However headstock does not have " made in usa".
Order date 3/2/72.

[musicauthority]

It has sorta an echo to it in certain positions. which would make sense since the signal is going to two different amps. and the different amount of signal that going to each of he amps. that's pretty cool to be able to get those tones without using pedals. however it would be interesting to see what would happen if pedals were used. but like you said there's probably a lot of tonal capabilities that you didn't use. that would be a great guitar to sit around and noodle on for hours. just to see what crazy tones you could get from it. the man Les Paul seemed to like the control plate on many of his guitars. so if it was good enough for him it would be good enough for me.

[juanmacaceres]

Whaaaat?? Pat Smear bought the Headless SG? Nice!

[Louis_Rain]

Love his one Trog! You can really hear the difference with the true stereo. I really like what's going on there. Some of the best tones I've heard you get. Really good Zep vibes, and I have never really liked that Bluesbreaker amp, but what you have going on there is great. Throughout this video I have come to really dig the look of that control panel too, probably because it sounds so good! Congrats on that one. Worth the high price!