Les Paul Junior ‘57 reissue - sometimes simple is best 

Leslie West~God rest his soul, used to start his concerts with "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Great playing & a very nice reissue '57.

Growing up it was all about LP's and Strats, then Charvels and Jackson's! Played P-90's for first time in my 30's and was shocked how awesome and rock n roll it is! Own a 01 LP Jr and I can plug it into a tin can and it'll KILL! Plus always cuts through in band mix! Nice demo mate!

Don’t run out and buy this guitar, you are just kidding yourself, this man is fantastic, he could make a tin can and a string sound good, he is truly a great guitar player, if I could play a tenth of his talent I would consider myself good. Thanks Sir.

TONE! And chops.

Yes indeed! I need to get me a Junior very soon... Yours sounds superb!

Great playing, wonderful example of a junior’s capabilities

Best vid yet that Junior is killer. Keep it up made my day. You know what you like.

Got to say .. A master of guitar. If you were famous you'd be on crossroads !!!

P 90's are unmistakably unique. Awesome.

Jelly as I am (naturally), I have to admit...that Junior belongs with your fingers. A match made, Old Buddy...a match made..

Agreed. I’m addicted to an Esquire right now. Love your content Paul! Keep it coming.

Love it as always Paul, this tone reminds me very much of the Mountain album 'FLOWERS of EVIL' of course Leslie West was very much a junior player, if you're not familiar with this album check out the live section titled 'Dream Sequence ' before the band break into a great rendition of 'Roll Over Beethoven ', take care buddy.

Your swells are second to none

We like you, you are like us Junior heads, and yes i smoke.

No matter what guitar, amp or pickups you use, your sound is always recognisable. Thumbs up!

Excellent playing👌I think that i need Les Paul Junior 😍

Oh man I loved that! That was an intro with feedback and grit.

The 100th like for ya Paul - I like your rig, the LP Junior, Leslie West played one back in his prime 'Mountain' days, Nantucket Sleighride from the road goes ever on album 1971 vintage rock creativity. You play with expression and dexterity, very nice work mate.

One of the best demos of a Junior I've seen on RU-vid, sounds nasty in the best way.

Another great clip. I am a fan. Love seeing the Jr work.

Great guitar beautifully played.

Great playing! Always look forward to your next video. Fun stuff!

Brilliant, Paul! I love the gnarly sweetness of the LPJ. And add it running thru my favorite combo amp, the Supro Tremo-Verb, with your awesome technique, well...brilliant!

............."I'm not fannying about here, I want the one I want!": Never a truer word!

Paul, you seem to be one of the few guitar youtubers who favors Gibsons and that's what I like ) others mostly are chirping fenders ))

Love your playing dude and that celtic tune was gorgeous!

Hi Paul, once again, very nice, I love your wee riff, I must learn that! Cheers.

Lovely. I’ve been mulling over a Les Paul Junior for a while. Now I’ve got to think about a Hudson Broadcast as well!

One side of my face got burned and the other melted lol. Great as always my friend.

Amazing tome, I'd love one like John Lennon's with the Charlie Christian pick up at the neck

Outstanding... I really enjoy your playing

What a tone. Si awsome how you can volume swell to the point of feedback .most players never learn the importance of the volume and tone knob usage ..your an inspiration

As long as you don't have terrible electrics making their noisy presence felt a Junior can sound like the best Standard.... maybe even better. Cool

awesome stuff Paul. That Junior sounds fantastic in your hands! dig it!

I've got a 2019 Custom shop Junior coming to me tomorrow. Very much looking forward to it

LOVE your playing. So sensitive and tasty.

Appreciating this "close encounter" with your Junior...sounds great!

Ho man , such a wonderfull SOUND , done by a geat player that you are . Keep playing that Jr bro . Cheers from Paris France .

I just snagged a Custom Shop, '58 reissue, double cut, cherry. Nasty, evil, little thing. Traded my R6 Gold Top for it.

I like this guy,it’s refreshing to hear someone on you tube who can actually play,unlike most other channel’s 🤝

Hi Paul thanks for your comment on my Custom shop Junior that arrived earlier. Only had very limited time with it at the moment, gone up to 10’s the original owner had it set up with 9’s. My Junior is a 2019 model, really loving it even though I’ve had very little time with it up to now. Great fat neck but not as large as my Historic 59 335. Only discovered your channel less than a week ago whilst searching for a Lukas Nelson junior, your demonstration of your Junior came up! The Lukas Nelson model is impossible to find used or new so decided to go for a Custom shop model. Really enjoying your playing and superb tones. The Junior sounds superb through my LazyJ 20. Mark.

G’wan Paul! Good man yerself. I’m not far off your age but the ex’s flat out mugged me off so cannae afford a junior, but got, in my eyes, a half daycent danelectro 59x. Love it long time 🤘

Cool stuff Paul, love it!

Beautiful composition Paul

Sounding great Paul!

Beautiful playing and tones.

Superb intro Paul with Close Encounters vibes and loved the outro too. With a Lovely composition in the middle. Perfect sandwich 😁Impressive sounds you get out of this instrument.

I found it Paul there's a picture of your broadcaster your Hudson broadcast and that video you sent me thanks I think I need one of those

This Guitar sounds like it comes from outer Space. Like an Extra Terrestrial ? No... like ...close encounters of the third kind. Uhhhh !!! And I like your little Composition , specially the chromatic walkdown from E to at least D . That `s Paul on a Paula playing like Paul Mc..... ;-)

Prelepa gitara,sviranje i ton😎❤️

Love the wee Jnr, Love the Supro, Love the Broadcast. A recipe fit for a Cook ... Lol

Great playing Paul. I love my junior... just plug it in and go. The tone knob actually does something.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one mate! The second bit that you wrote was beautiful and one can tell that you really enjoy playing guitar. Setting up the room with the lights and such, brilliant! I wish companies would start giving you gear to review and keep you busy here on RU-vid so we can see more of you! To be completely frank, I think you and your playing could sell more products than some guys that only have the numbers but yet again, it has become a numbers game... oh and I'm so glad that the buyer for my DC Junior chickened out. I would of regretted selling it! lol. cheers!

Hi Paul ! Greetings from Akron , Ohio USA ! Looks like you are in fine form . That Supro amp sounds great . My first good amp was a Supro that I bought used in 1964 for $50 USD . I traded it the next year because it did not have reverb . I was only 16 and pedals wern't invented yet .The Junior sounds like you are really bonding with it . The tone is in the fingers , but it sure helps to have good equipment !

Paul you have just been fast tracked to the front of the abduction queue 😂😂😂 hope they let you take your lp jnr to blow there minds. Sounds amazing mate👍👍👍

Your play style is on point. I will try to emulate it for fun but won't do it justice. .great tone great guitar

Excellent stuff man. I just sold a les paul special because I want a jr.... but waiting for the right one to hit my hands. cheers 🍻

Great vid paul, I especially liked the second track, I need to learn some of those chords.Thankyou

Superb

I’m going to Thailand next month and thanks to COVID, I will probably be stuck there for several months. I have been struggling to decide which guitar I should bring with me - it has to be versatile and fun to play. Based on the fun factor I eventually nailed it down to either my 57 Les Paul Jr or my custom built LSL Bad Bone. The later has a neck humbucker with coil split and a single coil on the bridge so versatility wise it cannot be beaten. The Junior, on the other hand, scares me. It’s like asking yourself which guitar you’d bring with you to a desert island where you will be stuck for the rest of your life. And a life without a neck humbucker seems like a terrible idea! Eventually I decided to take the LSL and had my inner peace again... until I saw this video! Now I think I should bring the Junior and hope it will make me a better player, which is approximately 1/100 of your level, by the time my trip ends. Am I doomed with this decision? Will I be able to endure the pain of having only one pickup? Or perhaps you can save me by making another video with that Tele of yours, LOL.

I always suspected you were an East Coast Space cadet 😉 .. OK OK you are winning me over on the junior .. defo suits your many styles 🤪 .. plus you can always borrow ( blag ) your old man's strat collection when needed .. wee celtic piece was braw but end section was well tasty .. peace out amigo and stay safe out in the east 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍👍

The Broadcast is a total classic. It wasn't behaving with my switcher so I've got a Carcosa on my board instead. The Carcosa can get very close to the Broadcast at it's fuzzy extreme

You have good taste about what this guitar can offer.

As a lefty playing a right handed Strat, and after recently finally buying my first Tele, ...I realized that right-handers are more versatile and can play more types of guitars than me. I can play a Tele well, but I can't make it do what a real Tele player can do, and they are all right handed, and most of them live in and around Nashville. It's like God put them all in one place.

Nice cello you got there.

Love the tone👍 The last piece you played could have been a 335 to my ear😋 Maybe I need an hearing test😂😂

I run a Les Paul Jr. thru a Super Reverb and a Supro Black Magick. The Supro loves P90's. The Super Reverb loves everything as expected. But the raunchy overdrive from the Supro borders on sick.

Superb.

smashin :) nearly choked on my coffee when you dunted the guitar :) P90 sound's brilliant, so versatile and dynamic, why don't i have a guitar with them ? I'll need to see if i can pick up one of those sweet cream pedals, maybe I'll sound like you then o) thanks for posting, good to see your making good use of your free time :) stay safe stay sane mate

nice "touch" mr. cook

Love that comment “ it’s probably a lot of bollox “, 😊

It's always best. Any time I see multiple delay units I know I'm about to hear soup.

I’m playing my 1937 Martin 0-17 in my picture….I bought a Gibson 57 Les Paul Junior too and play it through my 57 Fender Vibrolux with a 12” Celestion Alnico Blue and my fender 66 Vibro Champ with a 10” Eminence Red Fang oh my what a sound..oh I’m 67 I buy what I want lol 😂 but I bought my 37 0-17 in 1970ish for $20

I have never seen a vibrato on the A chord first position like that before at 1:21. I have just never thought to use only 2 strings like that in that position so that I could do a real vibrato. It is interesting.

Always look forward to your videos no matter which guitar you play! Paul, if you could only ha lve a les paul or 335 which would it be?

lovely a very interesting Style it is pleasing. so question specifically which model Hudson broadcast you have does it have the four knobs and the two foot switches were just have the two switches in the three knobs and then the switch at the top. I found a picture of your broadcast. Thanks for your inspiring playing!

I've felt that with the lighter weight woods the sound tenders to travel or resonate with less obstructions to the sound wave..And maybe if the less wax on the pickups then they will also pickup the sound of the body everything else !! Although I know at the Gibson factory they do sprinkle every custom shop guitar with magic fairy dust!!! Steady the ship it's all wizards and magic !! But ssshh!! Don't tell ... Talking of strange new devilry, have you tried a freeze pedal ? Pedalboarda. ..The stuff of strange incantations. ... Cheers lad.

Hey Paul, the Junior sounds fantastic and seems to be gathering character marks right before our eyes, haha. I like your muting technique and that second piece was beautiful. What do you call it?

...probably my biggest regret is selling a '64 SG Junior (wide neck and all, and beaten to shit) for 850 poxy quid - especially at the price they are today!

✌️✌️💥

I have two Custom Shop SC Juniors, in Sunburst and TV model

Awesome playing , purchased a Ltd EC1000 just can't seem to bond with it, I like my telecaster a lot more i will sell the EC, it sounds fantastic just not feeling it with this guitar.

I liked the muting lesson. You have a very strong left hand, especially that first finger on your left hand. Sorry I am spamming you today.

"For F sake" :-) Great playing.

You're playing is great! I am thinking of buying a Junior and your videos are mostly responsible. Have you had a chance to play the Original series models? Do you think the fact that the pickup is closer to the bridge would affect the tone by much?

Hi Paul, you said on your “we told you so - Stratocaster video” …. of your “Junior” that you have relict it !!!. Well gonna do a video on this ? How did you relic it? & how does it look now compared to its arrival from Spain? Thanks for the music & vids , so enjoyable Cheers

Goldtop on the wall is really nice to..strats play sweet but i can't feel the mojo on one .Gibson style jst speaks to me. But i can't get my hands on a real one cause the shop by me dont have crap and i like to touch before i buy

Did tou start with the riff from the soundtrack for « Close encounters of the third kind » (a horrible movie from 1977)? It sounded cool on your guitar, nonetheless

Man, Gibson should give some sort of commission. I’m pretty sure you just sold a bunch of their Lp jrs, just based on your playing. You definitely sold me. Have you tried flat wounds on it?

very nice sound. I bought a jr some months ago. It does not resist big bends, goes out of tune.. would u have any recommendations for me ? Thank u and cheers from Germany!

Hi Paul. A bit of a advise from you. I know that you don't like thin strings. And I haven't played electric guitar for many years and now I have bought a Les Paul Junior copy. Can I start with 11 gauge with out killing my fingers? It's so easy to choose thin strings to avoid the eventual pain on the fingers. But I can see that maybe I loose the tone that the Junior is capable of by putting thin strings on it.

Do I detect a bit of Spinal Tap’s “Phrygian Odyssey”?

And to think I sold my SG Junior without even plugging it in🙈😢

How does it compare to your goldtop over there?

Paul.. "It's not the guitar ".. :)

Great review, thank you. I definitely believe there is truth when it comes to the vibrations/use of any instrument, or car for that matter. I've owned a few vintage cars and much prefer to buy one which has been driven to one which has stood around looking pretty in a garage - and I'm speaking as someone who drives his cars... and plays his guitars. Let the collectors collect and if they're lucky, make a profit, but one thing they will never have, is the experience of making a P90 squeal like a screaming eagle. Though they can probably pay someone to do so, that's akin to being a cuck, imho.

communicating with the aliens at 4:23 ?

Am I the only one who knows what he did there. Close encounters of the 3rd kind