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George Benson playing jazz on a Gibson Les Paul... Close you eyes and tell me you wouldn't mistake it for a $$ carved solid top HB.
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03-21-2017 01:11 PM
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George is one of my all time favorites. But I somehow can't love Les Pauls. Also I dont like SG's. Dont know why.
The sound is ok on this clip, but the aesthetics of a jazz guitar is much more stunning to me...
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Originally Posted by mrblues
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George could make a washboard sound good.
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Um...a Gibson Les Paul IS a $$ carved solid top guitar. Just sayin'
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Designed by Les Paul for jazz players, cutting out feedback problems.
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GB sounded great on the guitar solo, his tone was 'Jazz' and I have to think he achieved it on that solid body to a greater extent than many others could. He has it in hand(s) literally. Never seen him play any solid body before, so thanks for sharing that. I bet there were no rock 'n roll light gauge strings on that Les Paul, but what would have been the setup? Flats, rounds, or ??
Sounded like his 5th string went noticeably flat during the solo, with a few prominent notes missing intonation near its end.
Had he worked that (Bigsby?) whammy bar and poked a hole in the speaker with amp's fizzing on "ten" he might have found an alternative career to cashing in as a pop singer.
John
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can't find it now, but there is this video of him walking on stage with a funk band and jamming with an electric, super strat style guitar, probably with thin electric strings. He sounds like himself..
I can't make a les paul sound that full, but i never tried putting jazz strings on it, so maybe... My best electric impersonation of a jazz sound has always been the telecaster
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That's some good guitar playing there
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I have no issues getting a jazz sound from my Les Paul- although it's a LP Recording, a little bit different to a regular LP, but George Benson would sound like George Benson playing literally any guitar.
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03-21-2017, 08:16 PM #11joaopaz Guest
Well, for me it's 200% easier to get a jazzy sound on a Les Paul than on a Telecaster. If you can live with the weight of the beast and with the small body size then it's all uphill (or downhill, depending if you thing in terms of bigger or easier )
The short scale is sweet; the radius works wonderfully for chord works... try fingering a regular F-7 drop 3 type on first position; not all guitars will allow a comfortable hand position like you get on an LP.
And finally, probably my favorite jazz tone ever comes from an LP-type ... I've posted this here a few times for sure, but here goes again! Solo starts at 2:32
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Yes. I can understand how some Jazzers like Ted Greene played a Tele - presumably for more string separation on some chord voicings- BUT you can use a fat sounding Guitar or even if you gotta have a Tele use Humbuckers and then a coil cut or Series Parallel switch for the more transparent sound on dense chords.
Yikes- listen to Benson's chops, articulation and Time in 1964 !Last edited by Robertkoa; 03-22-2017 at 07:07 AM.
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Why would Jim Hall have needed his G V Epps damper on a Les Paul ?
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03-22-2017, 07:50 AM #14joaopaz GuestOriginally Posted by Dennis D
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Les Paul's make great jazz guitars.
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thats Ulf Wakenius there in the Oscar Peterson video. I wonder what made him choose the Les paul (they were recording a live album) for the date. He plays a bunch of archtops, semi-hollow, everything..
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Originally Posted by vintagelove
Here's Jack Grassel & his LP Artisan. For the years before this was his ' go-to' instrument, he used a Bluesboy.
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03-22-2017, 09:17 AM #18joaopaz GuestOriginally Posted by Alter
Another well known video..
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Les Pauls make good jazz guits, hell yeah.
You really want to trip out? Blew my mind a few years ago when I found this old vid of a young Joe Pass tearing it up on -- you guessed it -- a Jazzmaster.
Doesn't seem to have much richness to the sound, but it still works -- still gets the job done.
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I'm with Joaopaz. A Les Paul is absolutely a jazz guitar that was repurposed by Clapton & Bloomfield etc into a new rock n roll tool. Everybody raves about a tele and no offense but for all the great tele players from Bickert on down, I've never been taken by the "jazz tone" achieved by Leo's plank. I'm not a Gibson fanboy because as much as they're capable of making a great guitar, one can't deny that their QC department does not put in 40 hours a week. A good LP Style is an easy tool to work with..
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I listen with my ears, not my eyes.
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Originally Posted by Robertkoa
Last edited by BigDaddyLoveHandles; 03-22-2017 at 11:01 AM.
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Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus
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Les Pauls are great jazz guitars...I just don't like their small/heavy ratio. I'll take a tele
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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