GIBSON LES PAUL ULTIMA

This Les Paul Ultima Custom Shop got to Bob's hands in Canada tour ... August 1997... and will be played for the pope next month in Bologna...

Les Paul Ultima

There is elegance, and there is class. Then there is the Les Paul Ultima from Gibson Custom – an instrument finished in such magnificence and splendor as to rightly celebrate the absolute finest lineage of solid body electric guitars in the world. If it’s superior craftsmanship and incomparable tone you seek, look no further. The Les Paul Ultima offers  the best of both. In many ways, it is the “ultimate” Les Paul, representing Gibson Custom’s finest example of the union of design style and heritage. From its stunning high-grade quilt or flame Maple top to its Ebony fingerboard with choice of elegantly inlaid designs – Harp, Flame, or The Tree of Life inlay – to its carefully inlaid special Ultima headstock insignia, the workmanship and quality of the Les Paul Ultima will astound you. 

GIBSON SG LES PAUL JUNIOR

Inglewood, 1 March 1990 - Guests at Tom Petty concert...playing a Sg Junior...

GIBSON LES PAUL

March 23 at the Snack benefit festival in San Francisco with The Band and Neil Young...Bob is playing a black Gibson Les Paul that will see again on stage in the late 70s...

The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold in 1952. The Les Paul was designed by Ted McCarty in collaboration with popular guitarist Les Paul, whom Gibson enlisted to endorse the new model. It is one of the most well-known electric guitar types in the world, along with the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster.

MODIFIED GIBSON SG LES PAUL JUNIOR

On the New Years Concert '72 with The Band Bob played a modified Gibson Sg Les Paul Junior...notice that the volume and tone control buttons have been moved to the pickguard and the holes sealed with two white dots...