If you have the cash (I don't!) I'd get a Les Paul with Marshal stack. I was looking at a Les Paul day before yesterday at G.C in Norfolk, VA they have a Les Paul with bound top, flamed front and back sunburst with custom fretboard inlay MAN! That guitar screamed!
I would have traded my CAR for that guitar and walked home....except that that the guitar was worth MORE than my dumb car!