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Gibson Custom Introduces the Don Felder "Hotel California" 1959 Les Paul

The guitar is created in the image of Felder's original 1959 'Burst used for nearly all of the solos on the Eagles' Hotel California album
Nashville, TN (September 2, 2010) -- Gibson Custom has introduced the Don Felder "Hotel California" 1959 Les Paul, an instrument created in the image of Felder's original 1959 'Burst used for nearly all of the solos on the Eagles' Hotel California album. Produced as a three-tiered Limited Edition, there will be 50 guitars hand-aged by Gibson Custom and personally signed by Don Felder, 100 hand-aged, and a further 150 given Gibson's VOS treatment.

Hand-aged examples meticulously reproduce the look of Felder's own '59 Les Paul, while VOS versions present the gently aged look and feel of a vintage instrument. All are made with period-correct specs and components and finished in a uniquely tinted and faded "Felder Burst" finish, formulated exclusively for this guitar.

The guitar features a figured maple top specially selected to replicate the look of Felder's original, with a solid one-piece mahogany back and one-piece mahogany neck, carved to match the neck on Felder's original. Features also include a pair of BurstBucker pickups, Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece, and a set of vintage Kluson-style green-button tuners.

All guitars come with a black, plush-lined Gibson Custom hardshell case, a Certificate of Authenticity, and full owner's manual and adjustment literature. Each also is covered by Gibson's Limited Lifetime Warranty and 24/7/365 Customer Service.

MSRPs:
VOS $10,351
Aged $14,115
Aged/Signed $17,645

For more information:
Gibson

Source: Press Release

     

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Keegan
on 11/06/2012 		Greedy Gibson are so reliant on their past. Sad!! I'd get 10 better built & sounding guitars for this price :-) (Aged too)
John
on 08/29/2012 		Gibson is just making these guitars to sell to Yuppies in the prime wage earning years of their lives. These Yuppies feel if they can have the guitar used by their heros...then they'll be cool too.
Len
on 02/29/2012 		Egad !!! Here we go again. Now if Gibson offered the double neck SG used on the orgional video, there would at least be some grass roots association. Don't get me wrong, when I was younger I thought Gibson quality was the tits, but like all rebels I had to screw around w/ Guild Starfires and Fender Jazzmasters. Now at age 63 I realize that a good Paul, Tele, and Strat from the '60's would be all any guitarist would need. A S sweet Country Gent like Harrison's would also be nice, and guess what, they'd all caost less than $2,000.00 altogether !!! Admittedly I have found a soultion.. An Ibanez Artcore 73, walnut finish that I bought on ebay for $175, put on Seymour's, changed the tailpiece and tuners and have a guitar that many say, kids I work w/ in music, "Hey, this plays like my old man's Les Paul or 335. Back in the early pre Beatle '60's, I borrowed a Gibson Melody maker from a friend who paid $125.00 out of the box and it had the sweetest tone and neck action. Almost made up for the lack of pups. Simce I don't dare pick one up and compare them, I don't know if the sky high Gib's compare w/ the good ol' days.
Feelgood
on 11/24/2011 		Wow! It's the Gibson Quarter Pounder with cheese and the works. Here's my $17k Henry! Keep the change.
hex_guitar
on 11/17/2011 		Reasonable pricing is also one area that Gibson has to consider. Not MANY people have that amount to spend on a guitar, even though it is set as a collector's item and valued as such. Gibson can make profit even at 1/4th the price they have set. They will make more people happy and that will up their sales, too!
Frank N Footer
on 09/08/2011 		All Don Felder did was buy a standard stock LP 1959 guitar back then for under $1000 and all Gibson is doing today in 2011 is replicating that guitar same and charging $17,645 for it. Felder did not invent that guitar or designed it. He just used it in his band.

Something is not right here.
Sam McCue
on 08/22/2011 		Wood and wire, folks. Wood and wire. There are a gazillion guitars out there and most of 'em are excellent. But if you're into "mystique", well then, go ahead. It's your dough. It takes all kinds to fill the freeways and there's one born every minute.
guitarguy
on 03/14/2011 		Do you guys really not understand that *nobody* pays MSRP?
phred
on 03/05/2011 		Earth to Gibson. At these stellar prices that LP better be hewn from Ark wood or from the General Sherman itself. Cut out the fatcat middleman and buy better quality at one quarter the cost at Carvin.
Gary Baker
on 09/16/2010 		I'm still looking for my 1976 Black Beauty stolen by geoff gier !!



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