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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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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 !!
Rod
on 09/08/2010 		If you want that sound, buy a used LesPaul and install BurstBucker pickups. Maybe get an Epiphone, install BurstBucker pickups and upgrade the electronics and hardware.
Jim H.
on 09/07/2010 		Absolutely and utterly ridiculous! Gibson is SO out of touch with reality. Why don't you give us a great high quality copy of a late 50s LP Junior, at UNDER $500, something that everyday musicians can use, not fantasy crap like this that only baby-boomer lawyers and corporate VPs can afford.
dennisl59
on 09/06/2010 		Add this one to the Gibson Billy Gibbons "Pearly Gates" Les Paul that is also completely, utterly and totally over-priced. Add the Jimmy Page Models while your at it. Or the Clapton 335's too. No serious, working for a living guitar player would buy one of these 'white elephants' at half the price. If I want something to hang on the wall, I'd get a PRS Dragon. That's a real piece of art. In my opinion



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