Cast your mind back to 1988 if you can remember that far back. Blues and rock guitarists alike were ignoring the great guitar in favour of Fender Strats and variations on the Strat body shape from the likes of Ibanez and Charvel. Think of the big name guitarists of the time Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Vai, Joe Satriani, SRV, Clapton, and there’s not an LP among them. Then along came the curly-haired, top-hatted, chain-smoking, goofy-grinned genius sporting a Les Paul and playing what would become some of the greatest riffs of the decade on Guns n Roses seminal album, Appetite for Destruction. The Les Paul was back.
Every once in a while, I thought it would be fun to post videos of pretty much anything related to Epiphone guitars or amps. First up is a guy from The Next Level Guitars demonstrating the differences between an Epiphone Les Paul and a Gibson Les Paul. Click Continue, below, to see it.