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Les Paul Axcess, Alex Lifeson Sig.
Has piezos, coil taps, and a floyd on an LP.
Looks pretty hot to me.
Gibson Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess Revealed
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Les Paul Axcess, Alex Lifeson Sig.
Has piezos, coil taps, and a floyd on an LP.
Looks pretty hot to me.
Gibson Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess Revealed
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WickedSymphony
Well-Known Member
Thank you, Alex, for having Gibson make a bad ass LP.
ZXIIIT
XIII
I saw that they finally have another Les Paul with a matched headstock (aside from Buckethead's signature and black guitars) that is something I've always wanted to see from Gibson.
Yeah these are bloody awesome guitars. Funny they don't make something like this with him until well after he stopped using Gibsons though. The 3x I have seen them (first in 2004) he plays PRS for the majority. He had a Tele out for Vital signs on the Time Machine tour though (that was cool).
jymellis
Talk To DeWalt
thats ace!
FAIL.
Why, if you were just gunna stick all of that extra stuff on it, would you bother with a LP? It won't sound like a Les Paul, and it'll weight a ton!
I'd love a Lifeson LP, but not with a friggin floyd. Besides, I thought LP's w/trems was the whole idea of PRS?
Not for me.
Why, if you were just gunna stick all of that extra stuff on it, would you bother with a LP? It won't sound like a Les Paul, and it'll weight a ton!
I'd love a Lifeson LP, but not with a friggin floyd. Besides, I thought LP's w/trems was the whole idea of PRS?
Not for me.
Razzy
[10]
You can't put a Floyd Rose on a PRS though, because you'll go to Hell for it.
And Neal Schon had a Floyd on his LP. I think it's a cool idea, and they still sound like LP's to me.
I'm pretty sure these have the neck thinner, ultra access cutaway, and the body is somewhat reduced in size.
It's not a fail, but if you don't like LP then cool!.
Alex has good taste and this is the only LP I actually like, though I wouldn't buy it.
Playing the Axcess LP's really changed my opinion of Gibson, but not enough.
It's not a fail, but if you don't like LP then cool!.
Alex has good taste and this is the only LP I actually like, though I wouldn't buy it.
Playing the Axcess LP's really changed my opinion of Gibson, but not enough.
So you want a Lifeson LP without the Lifeson?
Seriously he had been putting floyds in them for years. He used a floyd exclusively as it was the only trem with the stability he liked. My guess would be the PRS trem was 'good enough' so he didn't gut it, but dang he uses a lot of bar.
Bloody_Inferno
Silence is Violence
edsped
Well-Known Member
If I were to ever get a Gibson, this would be the one.
DesertBurst
need moar dorrar
there is nothing new about a locking trem on a LP.
it has been done numerous times in the past.
LP Axcess has thinner body=less weight.
again, nothing new about it either.
my axcess sounds like a Les Paul, because it is a Les Paul.
stryker1800
Sweet Pickle
So did the whole company go to hell for making the Torero, if so ill be glad to ride along with em, cause after i put blackouts in place of the Emgs it was a great axe.
Grand Moff Tim
Some call me... Tim
I HATE IT BECAUSE IT'S A GIBSON. THEY ARE TEH DEBBIL.
j/k, obviously.
Is it just me, or does this seem like the kind of thing Gibson should have done years ago as just a regular production model (as in, not a sig)? It's actually adding modern appointments/improvements to their classic models, instead of a "new" vintage reissue that costs $7,000. It's cool that they make sigs like this and the Buckethead model that feature modifications the artists have/want, but shouldn't that be a sign to them that those are features they might want to include on a standard model?
...am I making sense?
j/k, obviously.
Is it just me, or does this seem like the kind of thing Gibson should have done years ago as just a regular production model (as in, not a sig)? It's actually adding modern appointments/improvements to their classic models, instead of a "new" vintage reissue that costs $7,000. It's cool that they make sigs like this and the Buckethead model that feature modifications the artists have/want, but shouldn't that be a sign to them that those are features they might want to include on a standard model?
...am I making sense?
You do realize that Alex has been playing Floyded LPs for as long as I've been alive right? Its his guitar. Don't like it? Don't buy it.
Also I agree this is one of the few LPs I'd consider buying.
I like the idea of a Floyd'd Gibson LP, but that just looks ugly to me. 
Miek
POSTING ON INTERNET
Gibson seems to have a hard time tapping into markets and demographics that it's not already a primary player in itself, so they tend to just stick to what they do, and what their customers want. I'd think this is the best way they've found to maximize profits - trying to edge in on territories that other companies have already claimed would likely be a large investment for a, while not insignificant, not worthwhile return.
But I'm not a very smart fella
Bloody_Inferno
Silence is Violence
PRS also built a custom with a Floyd for Ryan Phillips (Story of the Year), before it (apparently) got destroyed.
Miek
POSTING ON INTERNET
Destroyed?
I think Paul and Dusty from BTBAM also have Floyded PRS customs, but I haven't really been following them since before Colors came out.
I think Paul and Dusty from BTBAM also have Floyded PRS customs, but I haven't really been following them since before Colors came out.
