8 Awesome Facts About The Gibson Les Paul You (Probably) Didn't Know - Quick History Of The Les Paul

In this video, Dagan shows us 8 facts about the Gibson Les Paul that you might not know. We also find out the CORRECT way to announce Les Paul...
Did you know that Les Paul didn't have anything to do with the design? Did you know you could ONLY get a Les Paul in Gold until 1958? Did you know that Jimmy Page had teh first signature model Les Paul?
Learn about the Les Paul in this quick history lesson.
1:23 Les Paul had almost nothing to do with the design - seriously
2:26 Humbuckers were only introduced to the Gibson Les Paul in 1957
4:02 You could only get a Gibson in Gold Top until 1958.
5:27 (Almost) everybody hated the Les Paul Standard and they didn't sell very well at first!
7:04 When was the Les Paul discontinued?
8:07 8 Awesome Facts about the Gibson SG - • 8 Awesome Facts You (P...
9:02 TV Yellow was designed to show up on television!
9:47 Who had the very first Signature Gibson Les Paul?
10:36 Who has the most Gibson Les Paul signature guitars?
10:52 Is the Les Paul the best selling signature guitar?
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[@Bubbles4uk]

I love watching your videos. Just a genuinely nice guy, with the facts and no ego. Andertons take note 😂

[@deshawnnoldham699]

I think its just rob, all the other guys are pretty cool

[@nathangray794]

All of the guys at andertons are fine Just dont get butthurt

[@tombstone1055]

I think it comes from owning businesses

[@acctonmyotherphone6327]

SG - Best selling Gibson of all time Les Paul - Best selling signature guitar of all time LP & SG.. just how everything should be.

[@Birkguitars]

Jimmy Page is the reason I have a Les Paul Standard in heritage cherry sunburst. I promised myself one when I was 14 and saw The Song Remains The Same for the first time. I finally got it as a fiftieth birthday present to myself and yes it was well worth the wait.

[@mikeellis9720]

That's a great story. Happy Birthday!

[@davewalsh3885]

Neil Young was the reason I bought a LP Custom and slapped a Bigsby on it.

[@VlxWIZzZARDxlV]

His isn't even that color man. Haha it's Honey burst.

[@str8harry]

Dude I love all your videos and energy. Keep it up my guy!

[@jobstu2006]

Dagan .. you might find some more history about "Les Paul" on the epiphone mobile app .. 140 years of epiphone history there .. it mentions how the gold top came about (looks good alongside polished brass instruments in bands of the era) .. and the all black version (it was best suited for tuxedo) .. Les Paul actually prefered Epiphone to Gibson ..

[@johnaquilino8870]

Great video!! Les Paul.... was asked what color he wanted his introductory Les Paul's ? He said Gold.... Because his car was gold at the time.... he said gold! Lol.

[@stratocat9]

Great history lesson! Really cool info about the Les Paul! Thanks!

[@rickharrison1440]

Interesting facts to learn something new today. Thanks Dagan

[@rickhill6277]

Cool Dagan! Actually, Joe Walsh, a friend of mine by the way gave Jimmy a ‘59 Les Paul while working with The James Gang and opening for them during one of their early European Tours. Well Joes says Jimmy bought it from him for 1200 USD. As Joe had two of them at that time. Have a Great Day and please stay Safe! Cheers from Ohio, US!

[@smokepirate8094]

That’s a bangin shirt my brother and of course another great video

[@elmiguel6725]

I love the Les Paul, it's the richness of the sound, and it looks great too. Nutt'n like a Gibson for me!

[@markuspieronczyk398]

Yes, same here for me. I tried many guitars, different scale lenghts, but the Les Paul always fitted me best. Got four wonderful Gibson guitars here, real works of art.

[@wretchedrider2157]

Originally, Les Paul wanted the Custom to add to the Goldtop range as he wanted a more luxurious and classy looking guitar. He specified a black guitar as he wanted it to “look like a tuxedo.”

[@DLC-music]

Great video! 🤘

[@jasonveall88]

Can we have a video of Degan guitar and amp collection at home? Looks like some great guitars on the wall.

[@chillbro2275]

Very cool. The SG just got a little cooler to me. Gonna check out that SG video

[@andyt6191]

I was led to believe it had to be painted to hide the construction from fender the fact it had a maple cap! Les Paul always wore a tuxedo or a black suit so a gold guitar would come across on black and white tv! Gibsons tv yellow a case in point mentioned in your video!

[@donthewatcher8835]

Thanks Dagan you make my 4 Les Paul 's Smile My 2 Epi LP Customs "Alpine and Ebony" my 2011 Epi Bonamassa Goldtop, and My 2013 Gibson LPJ

[@baddogrnr]

Good effort

[@thomasbowlin6787]

It's funny I just watched a special on the history of the electric guitar and they claimed because they had the shaped maple top, they didn't want fender to know what wood they were using. Now this is what the documentary claims but it doesn't make much sense to me because fender could have just bought one and sanded it down so that didn't fly with me then I heard in the past because of the Les Paul and Mary Ford show, Les Paul thought they would show up on TV better because TV back in them days were black & white and picked up some colors better than others but your right we may never know but the reason for gold showing up on black & white TV's does make more sense to me because look at the Les Paul TV models you mentioned, there yellow and showed up on black and white TV's great. One more thing to consider is that didn't have to pick out great looking maple, any piece of maple worked because they were painted so it probably save them time and probably money not having to take the time picking out great choices of wood. Love your video and I have been playing Les Paul's since 1975. I also heard since telecasters were a plain looking utility guitars in Les Paul's mind he wanted to make the Les Paul very elegant looking. Lot of theories out there but we will probably never know because they all sound good minus the documentary that claimed they didn't want fender to know what kind of wood they were using, how ridiculous.

[@stevendearden8030]

Nice One Dagen - Some interesting facts about an iconic masterpiece. Gonna pick up my LP Ted McCarty Signature and rock all afternoon :)

[@JustPlayingBass]

Nice Steve Jones you got there😉

[@alexwalshguitars9596]

I hate them with the pickguards, maybe that's just the Slash fan in me...

[@paulpozi4601]

Slash plays LPs with pickguars too, but only sometimes, e.g November Rain video

[@benlogan430]

I liked GnR in 1985! Nanananana knees knees...

[@alexwalshguitars9596]

@@benlogan430 that was '87 😂

[@carloszamora9551]

I only liked the jr pickguard.

[@jockywilson1989]

The only Les Paul I like With the pickguard on is the White Custom in this video.....all All other models look better without them....each to their own I guess.

[@davidhurtado2725]

I can listen to Dagan rant about guitars all day. As a matter of fact, I have done so today 😂

[@paulplayspoorly]

6m 44s: seriously channeling his inner Alexis (Schitt's Creek). Pose is perfect!

[@dougstewart3243]

It was made for jazz until Keith got one

[@lornerobertson4444]

That looks like a jonsey behind ya! Very nice

[@baDWolf_75]

You ROCK Dagan! Thanks!

[@ericdenau2223]

Finaly some thrue facts. Back in the stoneages I was hangin in two musicshops that was mainly into vintage instruments. Most guitars where plain offwhite, black and red and those top notch ones where kind of semitransparent henna, red brownish. I have often wondered where all these bursts with over the life super clear 3D intrigue patterned wood top guitars cames from? Sure as hell those ones was not around back then guitars where expensive enough anyway and there was no need for Bling. The world was black and white and in low resolution I have childhood memories from when we where so dam poluted that almost everything stod in a shade of gray.

[@thetattedpharmacist3215]

As to your note on Les Paul's other contributions to music. He was one of the first to pioneer double-tracking vocals, Buddy Holly got the idea from him!

[@DrDespicable]

"TV Yellow" was *specifically* designed for promotion on Les Paul & Mary Ford's television program - believe it... or not!

[@rocknroller123]

you forgot the ACE FREHLEY signature BUDOKAN LES PAUL.

[@shredhed572]

From an interview with LP Leo and Les were neighbors. One day at a cook out Leo asked Les if he was going to do anything with it. Les said, naw, I can't get any interest. Leo said, we'll, I'm going to try it. Les, said go ahead. It went something like that.

[@matthewlyle3295]

Just learned that I have been pronouncing les Paul wrong my entire life

[@tombarnes3240]

Lester "Don't Call Me Lez " Paul

[@stuartmacdonald5361]

The first Burst Les Paul's made in 1958 didn't have flame tops, they had plain tops. That was the wood Gibson had in stock, because until the burst came along you never got to see the wood grain so there was no point in buying more expensive figured wood then. The only time there was any kind of figuring in woods was when figured wood got thrown in by mistake. If a figured wood was used on one side of the guitar normally the other side would be plain. There was no book matching then, it all came down to the luck of the draw and most of the time in 1958 the woods were plain. Now yes, in 1959 they did start to use figured woods and you will see flame top 59's. But typically, a 58 would have a plain top.

[@DaganWilkin]

That is true! I remembered this when I was editing the damn thing, haha. Hopefully folk will see this comment!

[@drcks]

Does Dagan have any Explorers? It would be cool if he owned one!

[@private6854]

check out his instagram i think theres a picture with an explorer on there

[@mickbrenton]

Only about 20% (300 odd) of Lesters made between '58 and '60 were flame (figured) maple!!! Also there was a change in the neck cross section profile in these years! The thicker '50s neck profile is far more stable in tuning due to the rigidity!

[@berdeter]

I'd add the Les Paul was not meant to be a rock 🎸 but a jazz guitar and it's a great guitar for jazz.

[@brandonallison3315]

Slash is the reason I own a LP (2010 epiphone AFD LP not a gibson) and I was first introduced when I was about 7 years old playing Guitar Hero 3 on the Xbox

[@kevinmartinez8280]

Do Gibson explorer or Flying V

[@teamloony]

Great video, one more fact you forgot… they are blimin expensive! Worth it, but expensive.

[@gregaltenhofel7326]

Yesterday while watching one of those shows with Les Paul and a current famous LP guitarist. Les said 1st that only the “SG shaped” guitars with 3 pickups had his name on them. 2nd He also said initially he didn’t like the guitar. But, said the only reason was the way the neck was attached to the body. And after they fixed that. He was fine with the guitar. Are either of these two facts true? I’ve seen double pickup SG’s with Les Paul on the truss today cover recently on Reverb. Did Gibson put them on there? Les himself says they didn’t. Only the triple pickup custom had it. I’ve heard the devil horn story for years. Had it been manufactured when they switched back to the single cut Paul? Did some PR marketing guy come up with the story? Les only said the way the neck was it wouldn’t stay in tuned. When they fixed the design he thought it was a good Guitar.

[@gkol69]

No mention of the Les Paul Custom? Or the Black Beauty? First released in 1954 was totally black because as Les Paul himself said: "Because you can see your hands move when you’re on the stage and it looks good with any outfit you wear." Also, Custom was a favorite in the '80s as a more mean looking guitar for hard rock and heavy metal than a sunburst.

[@waynebrown1394]

If you want to know about the Les Paul there is a documentary on axs channel keep your eye on the guide for it.

[@bubbasouth69]

I got something called a stimulus and used it to buy a Les Paul Classic. Best guitar I ever owned!

[@justanotherinternetmusicia1248]

Frusciante's Les Paul and SG tone is beastly

[@Cthulhu_Awaken]

To record what songs did he play the LP?

[@alecsmallridge9636]

@@Cthulhu_AwakenI know he played one on “Readymade” from the Stadium Arcadium Album

[@DrDespicable]

Could you do a video on Epiphone, please?

[@BooBoo_17]

Is Jay Turner another brand of les Paul cause that's whos on my headstock

[@jaster4201]

Riff at :17

[@thelowmein9143]

Oh that’s it, I’m calling it my guitar lair from now on.

[@swansonjoe7121]

Another fun fact: Back in the 1950s, Gibsons weren't ported to the UK, resulting in knockoffs like hofner which John Lennon and George Harrison played!

[@vsmicer]

There was in fact an embargo on all US made American instruments, not just Gibson. neither Harrison nor Lennon wanted Gibsons - they wanted Stratocasters.

[@DaganWilkin]

Oh wow!

[@jordandangelo180]

The Les Paul may be the most iconic image in rock n roll history. From the players to the tone to the aesthetic, they have a level of cool that seems to be infinite. The sounds and images of rock n roll would be incomplete without the Les Paul.

[@thelowmein9143]

SG - Satan’s Guitar

[@spottedsaint957]

Link Wray recorded Rumble with a Gibson Les Paul with P90 pickups in it. After the Korean war he switched to a modified SG because he had lost a lung from tuberculosis and his Gibson Les Paul was too heavy for him.

[@ste75n72]

I love the way he slips into Jack Sparrow every now and then

[@dylanmiller2990]

How did he get his name on that marshall

[@jjdillon2007]

Les Paul's design was actually the dawn of the ES 335.

[@adamparker3064]

I can't even get a guitar delivered from PMT to play, 5 days and counting

[@artemisxo6734]

lmao i always pronounce it *lez* paul, not "less" paul, not cause i think it's right, but because i'm also a lez

[@SDMF1486]

First Les Paul was Epiphone...

[@Axess-sv8nq]

All the mindless sheep in this comment section don't care about facts. The Les Paul shape wasn't invented by McCarty. It was invented by O.W. Appleton in 1941. Gibson rejected his design. Paul Bigsby also released a single-cut guitar in 1948 - FOUR YEARS before Gibson. But, don't tell the idiots in this comment section about it. They'll just ignore you. PMT was, most likely, PAID by Gibson to do this video. It's FULL of LIES.

[@Chirn70]

Is that your hoose, Dagan lad? It’s definitely “Lez”. Who’d want to be “less” ?

[@MrSviggels]

Fun fact about the Gibson Les Paul! 1.) I will never be able to afford one!

[@Latvietis1996]

You forgot the fact, you can't get it perfectly in tune, because of the construction... Im talking about B and G strings.

[@richszmal1653]

Since les paul had a little bit of input on the design on the les paul wouldn't that make a les paul the first signature les paul? and not jimmy page.

[@str8harry]

Idk if you watched the video all the way though, but he basically says that near the end haha

[@johnnyrandom100]

I'm sure Les Paul the man, had the first Les Paul signature guitar?

[@VlxWIZzZARDxlV]

SG - Solid guitar for this guy who can easily tell you but will only direct you to another video. And It isn't fucking cherry sunburst. Looks nothing like it.

[@StupidEarthlings]

Technically, wouldnt "Les Paul" have the 1st signature gibson guitar?..(not jimmy page).?.

[@jh1405]

Les had little to do with the design? except... Choosing the scale length, radius, body , neck and fretboard wood choices, bridge, nut width, fret size. Yeah very little to do it.

[@thesovereignonion2283]

Um, didn't les paul have the first signature les paul? 🤔

[@Unknown-ko7xt]

*Les Paul - Les Paul Simple*

[@cupidstunt66]

Think Les Paul was godfather to Steve Miller of Steve Miller Band fame.

[@tjreeve9024]

Everything he pretty much plays he has to pick slide and slide his hand 😂

[@WattchomanBrandySavage]

over a million pounds eh? man, that's heavy. ;)

[@Axess-sv8nq]

Too bad this video is chock full of lies. McCarty didn't invent the single cutaway Les Paul shape. O.W. Appleton and Paul Bigsby made guitars with those shapes in 1941 and 1948 respectively. Also, Seth Lover didn't invent the Humbucker. It had been invented years earlier. Gibson was just the first to get the patent. I have a 1960's Gibson LG-0. I've played/owned MANY Gibson Les Pauls over the decades. There's no magic in them and they're not special. I have non-Gibson Les Pauls now which blow away the Gibsons I've played in pure quality and playability.

[@guitarslim69]

Ha ha ha ha! Right you are my brother! I can't believe I'm just catching this (six months later :-) I love my Epiphone 2000 Korea model. It's black with ivory pick guard. Man, it's fun to play. However, I still love playing my red Epiphone SG Special most best of all. Fun fun fun! Dude, I have GOT to get caught up on some of your videos! You rrrrroooooccccckkkkk!!!!! BTW we love you Dagan you rock too dude!

[@Axess-sv8nq]

@@guitarslim69 Hey, brother! Yep! I watched this video with my jaw dropped. I couldn't believe all the nonsense in it! I love Dagan. He's a good guy. He's just doing what they pay him to do. So, no big deal there. It's too bad that Gibson has to lie so much. Ace Frehley holding his Gibson Les Paul was THE reason I started playing in 1978. But, hey, they stole the design of that guitar. So, it's not surprising that the lies are continuing. People don't want to hear the truth these days. They'd rather be lied to as they empty their wallets. Pretty sad. Thank you for the compliments, man! 😎🎸👍

[@guitarslim69]

@@Axess-sv8nq 😁

[@fredymendez855]

Les Paul was right the SG devil horn design is kinda ugly!

[@michaelbevins2405]

they suck unless u like working on them all the time

[@steve24125]

Gibson = CRAZY over priced guitars. Sheep still buy them.