I think a whole lotta Les Paul romance has blossomed over the last 3 or 4 years of which a great deal of that has been Bonamassa. He can make a Fender amp and any Les Paul sound unworldly. Other than Joe, I haven't heard a truly Les Paul signature-stamped sound since Paul Kossoff ( although Paul always insisted his tone was about the Marshalls and not the 50's Les Pauls) except perhaps Mark Knopfler's metamorphosis away from a Strat and more towards the Les Paul. Anyway, the point is, in the right hands, it's an incredible tone machine, albeit much more difficult to drag Its personality out of its shell.
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