Finally! A review and demo vid! I've been getting tired of the WYRONs and "Let's go guitar shopping online with Trogly" vids. Even though I can't afford even a normal priced Gibson, I really enjoy learning about them!
Good one Austin!!! I like Norlan era customs. I should say MOST Norlan era guitars. For me, this era was perhaps the most inconsistent of them all. Yes they been accused of having a lower quality, this may be true, some would argue these were the best years for Gibson. The only thing I can say about these 70’s models, you may pick one up and it’s the best experience you have ever had with a guitar. You can grab same 70’s model and it sounds as dead as 4:00. Great job again Austin.
That purple color in the case really makes the silver guitar pop. Makes me think a Les Paul with that silver color as the top but a deep purple back would look great.
It was worth the wait for another magnificent review of an incredible Gibson guitar. You really are the bees-knees when it comes to this stuff-Trogly's Guitar Show is in session so SHHHH!!
Yeah a collector wouldn't want me to get to it first because the best way to display this gem would be to play the crap out of it! I might get booed off stage with what I'm about to say but that little superstar would not spend her days or nights hanging around on a wall or sleeping in my closet! Front and center baby!
I like it when Trogly is explaining why the guitar is silver and he does the hand wave over the top of the guitar just like Dian Parkinson would on The Price Is Right. That was some mad trade show skills. Serious props. That guitar sure is purdy sitting in the purple lining.
My ex father in-law has 2 Les Paul silver tops. I was talking guitars with him, and I mentioned silver tops, so he went into his office and walked out with 2 guitars. One looks brand new, and one has a bunch of the silver rubbed off from playing it. It was one of his main gigging guitars. (From '69 to '84, his job title was "guitarist".)
Can't you get your hands on a 1988 Les Paul Showcase Edition Silverburst????..... Literally the only Silverburst Standard ever made, and w Ebony Fingerboard! The most beautiful Silver finish Gibson ever did. Great Vid, stay groovy!
Hola from Barcelona! just want to say thank you Trogly, for the lot of information gived in all your videos, the history, the specs, the presentation, the play, you put a lot of efford there, you deserve to be in the True Keepers category, well preserving history, so again, Thanks! keep on!
Hey! Just talked to Erik from Sweetwater. He told me you were actually his client. Which I thought was pretty cool. Cause he asked me how I heard about sweet water and I said I watch your channel and you talk about sweet water sometimes. I really like your channel my man. I hope Sweetwater does more stuff with you.
For all the complaining about Guitar Center they have over the years commissioned some pretty nice guitars from both Gibson and Fender. Back in 2000 I purchased a GC limited run American Deluxe Quilt Top Stratocaster, its been my #1 Fender since then.
@@EarthAltar Totally agree earthaltar. Congrats, those 60th Ann. were some of the best production Strats made in 2014/15. I purchased a brand new 25th Anniversary Stratocaster back in 1979, cost was $1200. Sadly that 25th Ann. wasn't half the guitar my modern Am Dlx turned out to be. I'd like to add the Tobacco Burst on those 60th Ann. are very beautiful, to my eyes not like the normal tobacco burst at all, much, much nicer.
@@hkguitar1984 Thanks. They're pretty rare in that year (2014) as the ash body and finish were both package upgrades. Especially with a maple fingerboard. The rosewood necks come up a little more frequently, but I prefer maple on a Strat. Had a line on one in 2015, but the seller backed out at the last minute. Took two years until I found another. Got it for a song at $1,200.00, and it's probably the nicest playing guitar I've ever picked up in almost 40 years of playing.
A real treat of a review. The last time I saw a clean one like the silver one was when they came out and were offered at Guitar Center in downtown San Diego. Another nice memory from my youth. :-) BTW, I was really surprised how much the color changed on the other example.
So a very good friend of mine bought one of these new from Guitar Center's downtown San Jose (now closed) location in 1978 and he still has it. I haven't seen it for something like 10-15 years but it was still very bright silver then. I think that is due to him not taking it out of the case very often, he's more of a Fender guy...................
Now this is the Trogly's Guitar show channel I love!! Really cool and rare vintage Gibson's! I know I am the oddball but I hate the way the silver and even other colors like white age!! Look how beautiful that guitar is in that silver compared to that "dang, did it live next to a cigar bar" yellowed one!!
Interesting, I’m working on my ‘Gibson Les Paul 1969-1990 reissue stock knob list and I have a new entry. 1977 anniversary silver custom - reflector top hat
Please get a Deluxe Telecaster (even cooler if you manage to find the black dove or something else with p90s). Would be awesome to see your opinions on one!
It's very pretty - something about the silver color with chrome hardware. Very nice! I very nearly bought a silverburst when I was 16 years old from a store near the University of Minnesota and for some reason I wasn't sure if the color would stay the way it was that day. I didn't get it and I guess you proved the color does shift significantly. But this silver one, wow. I wondered if the shifted color silverburst resided in the home of a smoker or something like that.
Cool video. But I always figured that Gibson's Silver burst was a reaction to Fender's Antigua; along the lines of "Let's show them how to burst some silver."
Gibson's UK arm also did a silver anniversary in 1977 for both the Les Paul and the Queen's anniversary. This was a silver standard with either P90s or Delux pickups. However they made less than 10 as dealers didn't want to take them due to most of their customers being anti royal. The only one I've seen was very yellowed and had P90s.
My brother was a gifted musician since age 6. When he was 11, when we lived in Santa Clarita, our parents drove down to guitar center in Hollywood and got my brother this guitar for his birthday. Beautiful guitar, has the "25th anniversary" tailpiece and my mom was livid at guitar center because the les Paul engraving was reallllly rough. She accused them of forging his signature lol. If anyone is interested, my mother is selling it at auction in July. Farnsworth auction in Medina Ohio. His guitars were supposed to go to me, the lone heir upon mom's death but she's evil and decided to sell my inheritance and give the money to cat charities. Anyhoo if you want it go grab it
Glad to see the '82 30th Anniversary Gold Top finally got a mention, however brief...Austin seems to give those guitars the short shrift...I don't know why, they're outstanding...I own one and they are amazing guitars, some of the last made in Kalamazoo...I will never, ever part with mine - which means I'll be buried with it, I suppose...
Isabella Catherine yes it's more common for people to collect them rather than just play them. They apparently have a lot of money to spend on them as they are very expensive.
I love how you're improving on your playing through all this reviews realy not a lespaul guy but somehow you always convince me i'm wrong and maybe I'd get one one day
That 1977 Custom is beautiful. I've been hammering away at Gibson fro screwing me over the last 4 years. But, I will give it a rest today. Because I LOVE silver / gray Les Pauls.
I have always played squiers and I got myself a DeArmond m-65c to see how I felt about the les paul body and sound and I fell in love so I found me a 2014 lpj pro and love it. Simply but still a les paul mahogany and maple top no binding but I love it.
Oh my God I think I just found one of my new favorite guitars.I mean I'm a huge Les Paul addict as it is and I thought I owned all my favorite guitars by now if not super high-end Korean Epiphone ones but this I do not have ..considering I need a player grade 1 I'm going to have to Buy a super high-end Epiphone custom from Korea and pay a professional to refinish it in this color.. UK and get all gibson pickups & parts for it bc finding this in a good clean player's grade condition at a price 2k or less will be impossible. plz if u can find on of these for under 2k plz post it somewhere as I follow u everywhere. I'll see it.
Hey trogly, I have a super rare Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty. 1979 or 80 NAMM Show guitar. I would like you to do a review on this guitar or contact me it is 1 out of one with a dish top 50s reissue. I just got it back from my tech today... if you are interested give me a buzz. Thanks Damien
I feel like my 1989 is the 30th anniversary guitar...now its 30+ yrs old …I'm like sheesh …even my guitar is old school. I changed out the bill Lawrence "the original" pickups to vintage T-top's when one fell apart taking the cover off, dont take the cover off those they are held in by 2-way tape and soldered, the tape will pull apart the top of the plastic of the pickup…but love the T-top's sound ...edit they should've added the long tail piece and welded to the stop tail ...for the 50's looks …and might do that to mine
The guitar is wired LP modern using a pot plate but without the tailpiece ground. If you add the tailpiece ground you can remove the can covers if still present on the guitar. The Z5U ceramic tone capacitors are horrible.
Hey, man like, my cousin bought a 25th Anniversary Les Paul in the late 70s that was white with gold hardware and it said 25 Anniversary at the 12th Fret. And wasn't like anything you have shown as 25th anniversary on your show.;
only thing it bothers me about the Silverburst is that the part that it suppose to look 'SILVER' doesn't look chrome enough instead looks more like a weird Green i just wan't that Metallic Silver damn it now a very interesting color for a custom LP would be PURPLEBURST or DARK BLUEBURST i'll dig it..
Hey Trogly... Have you put your hands on the Epiphone Limited Edition Les Paul Tribute Plus? I just ordered one and I'm really excited about the Gibson Humbuckers. Was interested in your thoughts...
I had one I bought new in 1977 from GC San Francisco on Van Ness It was the chrome version. It had no signature and the tail piece did not have the engraved tail piece.
