NGD the Chili way. '07 Faded V

Headache said:
He's not great with recording tones yet.
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No comment on the recording quality of this clip(s), but since I am just a smidge past tin cans connected by a string technology it sounds decent enough for me.
I have found that cell phone recordings are highly limited in quality. I think he was possibly using a cell if I am not mistaken. Youtube also has lots of compression and other deleterious factors imposed on the final sounds if I am not wrong too.
 
Headache said:
Beautiful axe! I put a Black Winter in mine and it may be the best sounding (passive) guitar I own! Fwiw.

Congrats sir!
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I was scrolling through some pics and comments from the guy I bought my V from. He had posted some old pics of him playing his 1979 LP back when he was 19-20 years old and I came across this current day 2020's pic of him playing my V before he sold it to me.

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Kevin at 20 playing his 79 LP

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Bdon, I knew even before looking at my notification, that YOU would be the one who responded.

I believe that Kevin is 2 years older than I am, so if I do the math of when he was 20 in the 2nd pic, that was circa 1982. I'd have been 18.
Kevin used to be a QC guy @ PRS when I bought my PRS Santana SE off him a few years ago. In my best guess, he did like Robert Herndon did when he was at Fender.

Kevin has his '79 LP like my own '79 LP KM, but I wonder if his was made in Nashville or Kalamazoo. Mine was a limited run of i think 1500.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Yessir. $699 is going price.

Of course my 2010 Epi LP Std was around $359 and now would run a cool $825-$1k with the mods I did to it. Bone nut and T Top Pups, etc.
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Bdon, and all the way better skilled Les Paul players amongst us, I would love to have a chance for some of you guys to try my Epi LP vs my '79 Gib LP to see how you feel they compare playability, sound, function etc wise. Like a Blindfold test.

I will also add for those of us like Thatbastarddon who owns at least 1 or more Faded SG's, Faded V's, to put my 2 up against theirs.
The stories of how I got my Faded SG and Faded V are pretty different. Yet, given that the buys were likely 10 years apart for the same age guitars, my prices were virtually the same, give or take $100 or so. The other differences were that the V came with Duncan Black Winter pups vs the Stock Gib pups in my SG. AND the V came with the Brown Gibson case which accounts for part of the higher purchase price, while the SG had no case and therefore I paid a bit less.

The main take away that I got is that both guitars feel like one another in the hands, but obviously different in the bodies, SG vs V.
I am also pretty sure that if my V and don's V were in the same room, Bdon would probably agree that his V and my V could be twins, feel wise.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Hey @Mitch Pearrow SJMP

Check out this ad I saw on Facebook. I think I saw it was a GC special run.

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If it weren’t a Guitar Denter/Musicians Fiend exclusive…and I was in the market…at all. Those Epi V axes look fantastic, and have an incredible price.
chilipeppermaniac said:
Bdon, and all the way better skilled Les Paul players amongst us, I would love to have a chance for some of you guys to try my Epi LP vs my '79 Gib LP to see how you feel they compare playability, sound, function etc wise. Like a Blindfold test.
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I don’t have an Epi in my collection. I would, however, offer my Gladiator GG-258 for testing purposes.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
If it weren’t a Guitar Denter/Musicians Fiend exclusive…and I was in the market…at all. Those Epi V axes look fantastic, and have an incredible price.

I don’t have an Epi in my collection. I would, however, offer my Gladiator GG-258 for testing purposes.
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I didn't exactly me to compare someone else's EPI LP to mine, but let's say, having a brother such as yourself who is familiar with LP's to do a side by side with my 2. One being the Epi with 2 T Tops, and the Gib with a Stock Double cream T Top in the neck, and Dimarzio DiMeola in the bridge.

EDIT: AND the most Likely and best candidate I can think of is smitty_p since he has his LP Custom and is pretty Setup savvy and a relatively short drive away.
 
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chilipeppermaniac said:
Or in Robert Herndon's case, Gold Top to Silver Burst to Chibson
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DonO,

My killer talented guitar playing friend from White Marsh to Tampa area FL was back in town and joined some former mates for several gigs.
He has 2 Gold Top LP.s One that he was playing last week.

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His original is a '74 that he skipped school to go buy way back in the early 80's. His 2nd one that he plays out with is a 2000, 1958 LP STD which he says has a baseball bat neck. He says he is liking the big neck. It made me think of Robert's GT
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Variety is the spice of life, Steve.
I bet R and B guys say the same about country twangers, and bluegrass fans have distaste for Ozzy, and The fans of Dream Theater or Rage against the machine might not see the appeal of Donna Summer or the BeeGees.
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The fans of EVH totally disrespect RR tone, one particular participant on M amp F.
Makes no difference to me Randy was and his tone is something that shaped the future of metal.
I like the brown sound but there are other tones.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
DonO,

My killer talented guitar playing friend from White Marsh to Tampa area FL was back in town and joined some former mates for several gigs.
He has 2 Gold Top LP.s One that he was playing last week.

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His original is a '74 that he skipped school to go buy way back in the early 80's. His 2nd one that he plays out with is a 2000, 1958 LP STD which he says has a baseball bat neck. He says he is liking the big neck. It made me think of Robert's GT
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That flame top LP behind him looks pretty sweet too !
 
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