Marv Lamb's Les Paul

[chico]

Today's (8/14) Kalamazoo Gazette had this nice story, the local "twist" to Les Paul's passing..

 

My mom tipped me off to this, was gonna clip it from the paper, I told her to save the time and postage, here it is..

 

http://photos.mlive.com/kalamazoogazette/2...les_paul_2.html

 

Ray aka Chico

[chico]

Here's another photo:

 

http://photos.mlive.com/kalamazoogazette/2...les_paul_1.html

[chico]

and this:

 

http://photos.mlive.com/kalamazoogazette/2...g_les_paul.html

[tulk1]

Way cool picture.

 

Looks awfully ... clean!

[pegleg32]

Neat article, thanks for sharing Chico.

[TalismanRich]

I was watching the local news last night and they had a short story about Les Paul. As they went through a series of photos, there was the Parsons St factory, just as we saw it a couple of weeks ago. Too cool.

[High Flying Bird]

Where is this?

 

[golferwave]

Great article! Thanks for posting Ray. I also noticed you commented on the article at the newspaper website Mr."Heritage fan from Madison" Way to go!

[Steiner]

Where is this?

 

By the looks of the windows, I'd say it was taken on one of the upper floors of the Parsons St. facility.

 

I enjoyed this Chico, Nice find! Thanks for posting!

 

Love the comment on Marv's picture / article!

[brentrocks]

WOW!!! thanks Ray!!

[Dick Seacup]

Excellent find, Chico. Thanks for sharing this!

[chico]

just so you all know, I've got dibs on the LP when Marv doesn't want it anymore!

[Sparky]

just so you all know, I've got dibs on the LP when Marv doesn't want it anymore!

 

Now THATS a Gibson worth having, and actually worth the investment. I read an article over at Ultimate Guitar about Les, and its funny how

he describes CEO's who will tell you what customers want, but won't humble themselves to actually work behind the counter at a music store for a month

to find out what customers REALLY want. His relationship with Gibson was not always a rosey one. Les Paul is probably one of the few people who lived a long time and enjoyed most of it. I'd bet Gibson had Les Paul sign a limited number of "Tribute" guitars which will now go on sale. My guess, $100K each.

[golferwave]

Now THATS a Gibson worth having, and actually worth the investment. I read an article over at Ultimate Guitar about Les, and its funny how

he describes CEO's who will tell you what customers want, but won't humble themselves to actually work behind the counter at a music store for a month

to find out what customers REALLY want. His relationship with Gibson was not always a rosey one. Les Paul is probably one of the few people who lived a long time and enjoyed most of it. I'd bet Gibson had Les Paul sign a limited number of "Tribute" guitars which will now go on sale. My guess, $100K each.

 

 

That's a good guess. The money will probably go straight to the Henry J retirement account.