Wild Birds Play a Gibson Les Paul Guitar 7
French artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot has finally answered the question, "Will 40 birds play Skynyrd if left in a room with a guitar?"
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I suppose its a relative view. Once upon a time Gibson was a quality company and are now the Sergio Valente with "designer model" guitars.Overpriced for the name at the top of the headstock relative to guitars of similar quality, the Les Paul signature model was once a mass produced masterpiece. Now it is possible to pick one up in a store and find sloppy binding, poorly leveled frets, flaws in the paint, and worst of all, other artist signatures obscuring the fact that this is a LES PAUL signature model an
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Ingenuity? A Les Paul? Leo Fender made some innovative stuff, but a Les Paul was nothing special even back then. Except humbuckers maybe, but first LPs had single coil pickups.
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I know some musicians, whose opinions I respect a lot more than Random Internet Guy, who'd disagree.
That said, that video was awesome and I don't see how you can view it as some kind of insult to Gibson or LP. I mean, being chosen for an inter-species musical experiment would be an honor for any guitar maker!
Also, I never realized what a nice water feature you could make with a guitar case.