5 Reasons To NOT Buy A Les Paul!

Worst guitar I ever owned and played. Wish I could get back every second I played it. Have an Ibanez RG neck Thru now which is amazing. No need to suffer with almost 100 year old obsolete instrument that belongs in a wax museum. Heavy, uncomfortable, inaccessible higher frets, baseball neck, poor quality wiring and overall construction, overpriced, completely unergonomic, not a professional grade instrument. Anyone talented playing a Les Paul would be far greater on a modern guitar with lightweight construction, a thin fast neck, quality components, & built with the guitarist in mind. Collecting Les Paul’s is like collecting wheelchairs 🦽 because they are a sign you’re a handicapped guitarist (the Les Paul is your handicap) 😉✌🏻

The biggest reason not to get a Les Paul is simply, the mofos don't stay in tune. I have a very expensive custom shop and I love it but I would rather play my Ibanez. I don't think the Ibanez has ever gone out of tune in all the years I've owned it, considerable, but the Gibson goes out of tune after every string bend, seems.

People say that you're paying for the name, but what you're really paying for is the reputation they have built up for over century. You are not paying for the name.

There is an old saying about bicycles that applies here: "It's not the bike, it's the meat in the seat." The same holds true with fly rods and guitars. It's not about the tool. A competent player can make a cheap, piece of crap guitar sound good and a bad player can make an expensive elite guitar sound like crap. If you don't believe me, take a good look at Willie Nelson's guitar, then listen to him play it. I love my 20 yr old Ibanez Artwood, not the best, but I can play it and it sounds great to me.

I personally prefer playing a PRS over a Gibson. Gibson's are just too heavy and they go out of tune too much. Pass

Useless video!!!

Joe Pass uses an Emperor. Epiphone produces a signature model of Pass' guitar.
Les Paul used Epiphone guitars for recording from the early 1940s until the late 1950s, even after his signature Gibsons were produced. The Epiphones were highly customized models with his own pickups on them.
Luke Pritchard of The State of Things uses a custom ES-335 Dot with fitted frequensator

Epiphone baby

I love my 2012 Gold Top. As You said in the video, its not that versatile like strat I also own, but man, I love that guitar.
... and I dont play standing anymore, cuz its heavy af 😀

Cowboy, I can't take anyone serious telling me a Les Paul is not wanted while basically drooling over them.

Seeing you play humbuckers, and hearing most of the tones you played, tells me that you are still growing up.

Too late

TELECASTER all the way! About to upgrade my American Performer with Klos carbon fiber neck 9.5 radius with black locking tuners and pleked steel frets! I don't want a strat or les paul becuase smaller scale length and less string tension. Tele is the MAC!

If you want a Les Paul buy a Gibson if it's too heavy get a job doing construction lots of imitators only one original does their leadership s..k who cares if it's not original it's a copy

When it came to electric guitars in the early 70s it was Gibson or Fender loved humbuckers short scale and got your aerobics in whenever you practiced

I've had many over the years. The old ones can be awesome. The new ones and the custom shop guitars are over priced and there is zero customer service. In the 90's I bought 2 gold top reissues...like $1800 each, a year later the neck binding cracked at every fret on both of them! Frets too long. Called Gibson, told me to FO. Sold em both... play esp now...and others! Play through a Kemper and happy...don't miss Gibsons.

If you want a quality single cut like a classic les paul, getting a used Heritage is a fantastic way to get a stellar guitar at a cheap price! Their custom shops are available cheap used, and still have that gibson history being from the kalamazoo factory (if that’s something you care about)

Don't buy a Les Paul?
Too late. 4 times too late.

Michael Kelly guitars almost mimic that Stratocaster sound with pull knobs and split coils. WAY cheaper if you know where to shop.

I bought this one as my first guitar about 3 years ago😅😅😅. I bought it used at a pawn shop and have enjoyed playing it since. I saw a clip of Jimmy Page playing one, and I knew that's the guitar I wanted.

Fifty years ago, I bought my Gibson custom Les Paul. If I knew then what I know now, I would have stuck with my Ovation semi hollow guitar and swapped out the pickups and probably been just as happy with it. My Gibson is sooo heavy and to think back in the day, I played four hour gigs without a second thought. Now, when i play it, my butt is parked in a chair! I recently bought a Tele Squire with humbuckers and no, it doesn't sound the same but I can make it sound every bit a beast as the Gibson. And it's so much lighter!

My only problem with Les Paul's is I don't have one with P 90's in it "Yet" lol 😢😢😢 😉😉...

For my birthday I was looking at different guitars and the choice ended up being a Les Paul or a Strat. A tough choice to make but I did finally decide on the Les Paul.

The reason I chose it are probably the reasons other people would NOT choose it.
1) Shorter Scale and the (dis)advantages that come with it.
2) Dual Humbuckers, gotta buck that hum to sound the way I want.
3) Tunomatic bridge and headstock, for string angles.
3.1) And not having a tremelo system, which I rarely use anyway.
4) Weight, I want it to stay put when I'm moving around. Other guitars fling around.
5) Neck Binding, I know it sounds silly but it makes a difference on my sensitive hands.
6) It's a Les Paul! Can't deny the beauty of that iconic shape and look.

That said I am a Strat player, for the last 13 years I've played a Strat and I will definately be grabbing a new Strat once the money can flow that way. But that's exactly why I chose a Les Paul, because it offers new and different things that I don't already have.

they hold their resale value...they are heavy because they use mahoney wood which sustances notes...nothing sounds like a les paul and they never will sound like a strat or tele because those guitars use high inpeadance pickups so don't compare apples to oranges

Tell that to B B King 👑💖👑

I was fender , I liked the smaller neck.....now I like the wider fingerboard, I have a 335 I cannot leave alone

To me the perfect guitar is the 335, then 2nd probably a Strat, and 3rd the Les Paul.

Interesting that you feel the chambered Les Paul's lack the punch of a solid body Les Paul. I own 6 Les Paul's 5 are solid standards and 1 2024 Les Paul modern in the Sea foam green and to my ears and hands it's the probably the best feeling and sounding out of my Les Paul's And it's chambered So now I'm questioning whether it's a placebo effect lol.

Lol, different does not mean bad. I love strats and teles. But les Paul's are amazing as well.

Because you dont know!

The G string often goes out of tune!

I got an sg supreme, it's my favourite neck to play on, sounded a bit urgh at first but I noticed that the action was way too low and humbuckers were too close to strings,got that sorted and can't fault it,my only grumble is the coil splitting, it's just weird

25% tarifs on foreign countries means I won’t be buying les pauls or anything else coming from the usa. 👏👏👏👏👏

Thanks Robert. Great advice. Over the years since 1970 I've had maybe 10 Les Pauls in various iterations. Mostly Epiphones, one Gibson, one Washburn. What I discovered with every one of them after awhile is that I just like my SGs better. I like the sound, the feel, definitely the heft way better than every Les Paul I've had. I don't know why I keep buying them. The last one I had I just gave to my son last year.
Thanks again. Really enjoy your videos.

So, such crowned deaf blunt head I haven't seen yet.

I didn’t watch this video. Just came to say that.

Bad opinion gimme real reason

Regular folk's who don't play musical instruments can careless if the guitarist is playing a Gibson Les Paul, a Stratocaster or guitar made in China they can't tell the difference in any significant way. People just enjoy the music.

To me….the fact that it only sounds like a Les Paul is a good thing. You play very well💯👍🏽🎶🔥🇺🇸

Sell a guitar? 🙀Blastphamy!

I’ve played strats and teles for years. Finally tried a Les Paul and it felt like I was fighting the guitar. I play seated most of the time, and the LP was just uncomfortable. Tried an SG and was blown away by how light and comfortable it is. I took that SG home and haven’t touched my Strat or tele since. Now I know what they mean when they talk about “finding the one”.

Epiphones are a decent alternative, but the Les Paul is a better make all around. Epiphone internal electronics are not as reliable either.

Get a chambered LP which can go as low as 6lbs 2oz and they don’t sound different any more than all LPs sound different than one another as every R9 Custom Shop LP has a unique signature sound from the factory but they share the core LP DNA sound.

Not so a 1959 Gibson if got aaa top can sell for thousand

You didn’t say anything bruh. 🤨

Here is one reason. Schecter solo 6. Best playing and sounding guitar that I have ever had.

As mesmas razões servem para não comprar uma fender loll

I agree. Telecaster is more versatile. LPs are my favorite. The neck, the string spacing and scale length are better for me because that's what I learned. When I switch to Strats or Teles they feel strange. Good video. Let's hear the clean sounds using each pickup.

Just started learning Guitar as a lefty. So my first guitar I purchase was the Epiphone “ inspired by Gibson” 60’s Les Paul in a bourbon burst. (Why a Les Paul? because of left handed availability at the time) Some of the cool looking value priced Strats and Telecasters were nice but if you want the left hand model in the series the only option was black and in the case of the telecaster in addition to black was also butterscotch blonde. (I realize these are the traditional colors. Nothing wrong with that) A month later after buying the les Paul my girls father who is also left-handed gave me one of his left-handed Mexico made fender telecaster in Midnight Wine. So which do I like better still too early to tell.

Can you make this a series? I would love to see Strat and tele.