I don’t think it had any finish on the top at all when Paul had it, so I’m assuming it was particularly resonant.”īesides giving us the lingering idea that Lucas should lend King that guitar for the run, the video also gave us a new look at King’s touring pedalboard, which has a few substitutions with the core lineup of pedals in place. That’s maybe because the finish is stripped away. If you play a nice big chord, the whole guitar just sings. “I’ve played all three – and the thing with the ‘Stripped Top’ ’Burst is that it’s a really bright, fierce guitar,” Clayton continued. So he was basically relying on those two guitars before Arthur’s turned up.” “Kossoff used the stripped one for All Right Now at the BBC in June and Clapton’s one for the Granada TV show on 24 July 1970. “There were three main Sunburst Les Pauls that Kossoff used: the Clapton one, the stripped-top one and a ’59 ’Burst that he acquired slightly later that went on to be owned by Arthur Ramm,” said Clayton. Speaking to Guitarist in 2020, David Clayton of the Free Appreciation Society shed a little light on what Kossoff was using and when. The story of Kossoff’s ‘Stripped Top’ Les Paul Standard is legendary it was the guitar of Free’s storming set at Isle of Wight in 1970, and by most Free superfans’ reckoning it was used to track All Right Now. Kossoff would later become associated with a number of famous Les Pauls. The Black Beauty did the rounds, and was once under the ownership of Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan before Lucas purchased it. Kossoff’s Black Beauty soon found its way into Clapton’s possession, around Disreali Gears-era Cream. When Kossoff took receipt of his guitar, it was the ‘60s, and the only objects that were getting passed around more freely than joints were guitars. Seth Lover’s PAF was only invented in ’55, making its debut on high-end Gibson electrics the following year. Fitted with a P-90 at the bridge and an Alnico V ‘Staple’ pickup at the neck, the Black Beauty predated the popularisation of the humbucker.
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