Chiba666
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Thanks for the info, There is only 1 other LP style guitar I would want and that is Esa's from Amorphis. ESP import from Japan, just ahrd ot get and expensive.
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Bump. It's officially going to be unveiled at MusikMesse.
Epiphone Previews Björn Gelotte Les Paul at Musikmesse 2015
It's definitely an archtop, not a flat-top.
The things he seems to have changed are the pickups (EMGs), fretboard (Ebony), and the neck profile ('59 profile, instead of the SlimTaper).
I like the aesthetic more than most Pauls - I never did get the whole awful cream color plastic, gold knobs with chrome hardware, blah blah blah...this actually looks somewhat put together and deliberate, clean and classy.
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I dig In Flames too and play a lot of their earlier stuff for fun. It will not take long before I finish the whole Clayman album. But please excuse my ignorance about LP guitars: HOW the fheck would I play a lot of their solos including December Flower, Another Day In Quicksand, Suburban Me with no fret access...Sure I know that a lot of the early stuff has been recorded with different types of floyded guitars BUT I just want to get into the vibe sometimes and use some LP for the style and feeling. Has anybody felt like this too? Only production LP that looks playable in upper registers is Matt Heafy sig maybe.
For what it's worth, Andertons in UK gives the date as 15 June. Could be a placeholder of course.
Remember that the band played ESP/LTD guitars up up until the Reroute to Remain era if I recall correctly. At some point near that time, there was the switch from ESP to Gibson by Bjorn and Jesper.I learned this album on a Standard LP as well. I remember Suburban Me being difficult but not impossible due to the fret access (the fast licks happen between 12-19 if I remember correctly). Also, they've had session players solo on their early records, Suburban Me being one (forum hearsay, I've never followed up on that assertion), so I'd assume a larger scale guitar was used from time to time. Imo if you can't pull it off comfortably with a LP I'd just fake it and improv a little. I developed so many bad habits trying to play high up on the fretboard with guitars that had no business being played like that.
Also, they've had session players solo on their early records, Suburban Me being one (forum hearsay, I've never followed up on that assertion).