The more I hear P90's, the more I like them, the break up sounds soooo good, its my tone of choice.

2 old dudes playing proper gear and talking about it. I love this. Best KZfaq show idea ever. Watching this while playing my Goldtop and smiling. Keep it up dudes.

Oh my Lord, The 54 goldtop sounds extraordinary. Awesome tones Doug. Great show guys.

Makes me happy I got me a Murphy lab ‘54 and ‘57. I don’t need no others after watching this lol.

I could listen to this all day (except during the Vikings football game).☺☺☺

The 58 gold top on the bridge 36:42 FTW.It’s got that special early PAF sound..INCREDIBLE!

I'm so glad you guys are back with new shows!

that first guitar 52 gold top just sounds amazing my favorite, and that sg just wow great thank you for the entertainment and schooling on the changes

Oscar is still one of the best sounding LPs I have ever heard. I am sure Jane is probably a little easier to play with the better frets and the neck may be more comfy, but Oscar has the tone going on IMO. When you strip Oscar down to refin, and swap out all the old electronics, etc., put those pickups in Jane....LOL! Always enjoy the show guys!

Very interesting video to know how becomes the evolution of the les Paul in the wise words and Chords of this Nice two guys..bravo keep on teaching.

those P90s sound fantastic

Thank you for your great reviews. Had been waiting for a new one for ages :-). This one is outstanding

You are so right guys the Les Paul is the go to classic /heavy/ blues/rock guitar without doubt.

Great show guys! Always nice to watch!

"god help you if this gets turned around' ha ha ha great stuff you two!

Thank you. This vid was fasinating, to hear the evolution of these guitar is a real treat.

Thanks Doug and Pat.Really enjoyed this segment.Love the tasty playing around the 27min mark👌

Great Show! Thanks guys!

Cheers from South Africa. Thanks guys

Thanks for the plug, guys! Great video! The dark horse for me was the '54, but then I'm a sucker for P90s. And please don't strip Oscar, the man looks good in gold. Keep up the good work! - JM

Hello Pat and Doug, I'am very gratefull, your videos are really interresting, especially this one, it's my favorite one. I like a lot vintage stuff, thanks to both of you I can make an idea about gear I won't probably get the chance to use. Thanks guys. Sam (sorry for my poor english^^)

so glad you've returned.More shows please!

One of my favorite Les Pauls of all times is Jeff Beck's "Oxblood" which is a refinished 1954 Goldtop fitted with Humbuckers. The combination of the Humbuckers and the wrap around tail just sounds so good.

Nice job: well done guys ! To me, the '52 neck pickup sounds best and so does the '56 bridge. Of course Oscar wins it all: what a tremendous Beast, full of overtones and harmonics !! Jayne's not bad either... man I love LP's :) even the SG Std really rocks !

great job guys like your show

Great show Dug & Pat!

Great Guitars!! awesome sounds!!

First comment! Woo hoo! You gentlemen are awesome. Some of the tones you guys get are the best tones to be heard on the KZfaq. Thank you for doing what you do!

Welcome back lads,great to see you's

so pure, so honest and Doug can really play amazing.....pure tone

You guys are the best!

The best guitar videos on KZfaq!

Doug - you inspired me to pick up my guitar to rock out

Great one guys!

Great show guys!! We are eternally greatful! ...Now all you have to do is play all of them Les Paul guitars through a Marshall ha ha ha ha!

Another great show guys. I'm so lucky to live near Chicago and Chicago music exchange and have had the chance to play early les Paul's. It was amazing to see how crude some of the '52 examples were. I played one with a knot the size of my fist on the back lol. That trapeze bridge really is awful though, but I played one with a wrap over conversion (that fits into the tailpiece) and when they're properly set up they really are cool. The '58 and '59 have still evaded me, but some day I'll play them ;)

Great show!

I'm sub in right now love you guys.

Thank you Doug and Pat. Real Git TV.

That 54 sounds awesome!

You guys are really good at shaking the stick!

That '58 Goldtop was the dreamiest sounding. And the SG. All sound great though.

First, all of them sound great! I absolutely love P90’s probably my favorite pickup. You can also hear the smoother more refined sound of the PAF’s, which I love as well. My favorite though might be the SG Les Paul in this video!

thanks bro's all the info lots fun u tube so much stuff from a fender hater LOL got brill photos smashing it up. lots all sorts guitars alloff them Gibson SHINE; KEEP IT UP my son i just got a T LP Gold seri 2013 grate buy . nice guitar playing love it like the way ye make it fun

bought that book when it came out ten years ago! was 12 the first time I ever saw a band play live (in a gym to cap off the first week back to school at my Junior High), lead guitarist played a Gibson Les Paul cherry burst, first time I ever had a clear in-person look at someone playing popular rock music, didn't know how he was getting those sounds from what his hands were doing, and the sound was away from his instrument, seemed magical to me at the time, always felt Gibson Les Pauls are THE guitar, the best of the best, ever since, Fenders were always a second choice in my mind

Damn i just love the way the 61 les paul looks. Absolutely sexy guitar.

That 1954 just has such a beautiful tone, in all ranges and all styles. Those are the most underrated guitars, when they are The King....

You guys are great, so good to see some new videos from you. Ironically, you are chasing that Billy Gibbons tone, but I am trying to get that tone you get from your LPs and Vox. Keep em coming guys.

Hey guys, I am glad to see your show again. You guys keep it honest about the tones from these guitars. I noticed that you guys want to replace the scratchy pots. There maybe another way to keep the original pots in the guitar and make it sound like new again. I had the same problem with stereo and my 1960s Teisco Del Ray ET-220 guitar. I took my guitar to the shop than they applied DEOXIT spray. No more scratchy pots. I used it on the scratchy controls on a vintage stereo and than no more scratchy sounds and sound cut offs. I tested it with my iPhone and my headphone. It sounded even better with that vintage stereo sound. Please go to the Stewart MacDonald website and look for the pot cleaning cap and the CAIG DeoxIT Pot & Switch Cleaner. I think that this would solve your scratchy pot problems on your Gibson vintage guitars and that way you could keep it original all the way down to the pots. Peace, Flood!

Thanks cats!! Your vid are sweet! Keep rocking!

Take away Doug's glasses and the hat and give him a blonde wig and its Spinal Tap's 'David St Hubbins!.....great vid guys ..thanks

Despite the wonky bridge, the '52 is still my favorite Goldtop. Just wish I could afford one. Another great demo. Thanks guys.

'52 for me, really sweet tone and the 63 has the real Angus Young vibe to it!

Great sounding guitars, but that Oscar is something!

Man o man that 58 an that 60 sound so amazing to my ears.. but where's the 59 guys.. its the missing piece to your puzzle...lol I'm just kidding what you have there is so amazing.. awesome stuff guys!

Best les paul video ever!!!

Thank you

“It didn’t start out that way” 14:21 got me

You Boys are gonna make this Strat Lover Buy a Les Paul... Maybe... lol Much Respect Love your Show... Petey...

It looks like there's enough room to top wrap that 1952 gold top and drop the bridge down to the body and still have good action.

I'll tell you what that 1952 lp is just as good tone wise as the later 7/8/9/0, I'd take and play that for tone just as fast as the bucker guitars any day!!

The best show on youtube

OSCAR!!!What a tone!

54 is my Grail-Paul, "hot mod" version is great too (Grover machine heads, PAF humbuckers & cherry/honey burst refin). When I get some good Brazilian Rosewood Boards in I'll have to make one or two replicas for myself.

To my ears the ‘54 is a winner. Close 2nd is the ‘52. And love the simple look of the ‘52. No silly binding and no plate under the pickup switch.

fantastic!

Nice retrospective. The AC10SRT sounds killer.

Man that 60 is a sweet guitar. And Oscar

That 1960 is perfect.

I would love to see a whole video on the 1960 burst!

The 60's Bridge tone was instant JOE WALSH! I liked all these LP's. The P-90's are incredible sounding. The two Bucker LP's Oscar(57) and Jayne(60) are sublime examples of how great these guitar are. I just do not hear that same quality of tone in any of the Re-isses.

Regarding pickup adjustments on P90s. Foam rubber will compress pretty quick so it's better to use springs. Telecaster bridge springs work great if you cut them down a little. Great videos guys 👍

60 burst sounds wonderful. Anyone wanna buy a kidney?

yes love the p90 's ... going to put house of tone p90's into my 97 Epiphone Les Paul with 50's wiring kit. love that fat fat fat sound so clear........woman you can everything apart from my P90'S . lol

Great Video it would be interesting to also give the history and examples (old to new) of the orville guitar and the epiphone guitar which I am a big fan of both

I've got a 2022 Gibson Les Paul Standard 50's P90 (8.2 lbs!). As great as my guitar is, I'd feel I had died and gone to heaven if I played "Oscar".

Wow, grandpa and pal are really talented.

Why does Pat NEVER play?

Love the delicate beauty of the 52 neck pickup. @33:24.

nice guitars and the Sherlock pip is cool only the highest grades we blaze.

Love it

Very inventive episode. I was just wondering earlier this week whatever happened to you guys.

54 stands out to me as the nicest tone. Maybe it's because I grew up in the 90s playing humbuckers, but that tone just calls to me.

love your videos guy's, really informative and jovial :) any plans to review some acoustics?

Great show guys. I'd love to hear a comparison between the original series and the '68 and '71 reissues. The 68 standard (56 style glldtop)with P90s is a great guitar and they also made small numbers with humbuckers. The 68 custom had a maple cap. In 71 Gibson introduced a '58' reissue. It was a stoptail '54 design so go figure. They also did a '54 custom reissue that year. All these guitar had one piece necks and bodies and apart from neck to body angle and headstock angle were pretty similar to the originals and made by mostly the same people. I've had 50s models but my current 68 is 'better' than any of them. I know it would be hard to get them all in one place (pretty sure they made fewer 68 gold tops than original bursts and only about 400 '68 customs) but it would be really interesting to hear a comparison.

Oscar's bridge pickup is the shizznitt! Sounds vocally more like a P-90 than a 'Bucker. But now, if Oscar went on a long business trip, I'd still sure take Jayne out! Great vids guys, ya'll are a lot of fun to "visit" with ! Btw, a friend of mine got to meet Les Paul at his Iridium gig and asked him point blank "Did you really not like the 'SG' LP's?" Les unflinchingly replied "Hated it!" So I guess that's not a "speculative" kind of assertion at this point lol.

Some great tones there....Sounds like my Plexi..

Great show again guys! I'll echo a sentiment though- we as guitarists can never get enough info or material regarding our interest- if you don't want to change the show up and provide info on the particular guitars and their owners, maybe a second 'behind the scenes' reel for the rest? Thanks again.

Wish this video never ended 😩 -

I older I get, the more I realize that the age of a guitar doesn't matter. Either it's got tone, or it doesn't. I've played brand new guitars that ooze tone, vintage ones that sounded like total crap, and visa/versa.

Doug and Smug!

That '60 is sick man........

Another great episode. Funny how at the end Doug said Jayne had a really good day... I was thinking the same thing myself as I was watching/listening. :) Of course, Oscar always has a good day. :) BTW, how did Oscar get his name? I know Jayne is named for Jayne Mansfield, but if you've ever told the story of Oscar's name I guess I missed it. Thx for the great run-through of all the Les Pauls.

You know ive learned more about phrazing and double stops from you than i have from bb or clapton. I cant seem to get though a video without picking up my lp. Thankyou. I even like pat.. i mean he is si deep. Ill follow him anywere

I signed up for email alerts on new Doug and Pat videos! The only KZfaq channel which I have set that up. I'm a month late on this one. :) Awesome demo. I had not seen that gorgeous 1960 burst before. All guitars, including the SG, sound amazing. Great playing Doug. Pat should join in for a "weapon" duel sometime. :) Also, try getting someone like Greg Koch, Bonamassa, or JD Simo to drop by for a visit one of these days. I'm sure if their schedule allows, it will happen. Best wishes

Just found you guys, hope you are well.

Thanks much! I was waiting for this show! My suggestion for the next one: Compare the 54 and 56 with a special from that era. How much is the maple top changing the tone!?

Hi, i am so so impressed by your knowledge about guitars and pickups .....and playing too....I have a slightly used Tokai ls 160s GOLDTOP 56 reissue...Could' you give me a "starting point " setting for both pickups , from the bottom of the strings and the polepieces of each pickup ? For bass and trebble side of each one ( strings depressed at last fret !) in ../64 inch please ? It would be so so gentle and helpful :) !!!! Best regards from France

here i am to comment multiple years later, and someone has probably already talked about this, but... on the early ones, the necks were accidentally set at too shallow of angle, and they already had tail pieces, so they just improvised and put the strings through instead of wrapping them around. hence the weird bridge.

great shows ! I would like to know if there are differences between large dog ear P90 s - for ex LP juniors - and narrow ones - thanks