Two of 'em, actually.
Dave Belzer let us (Okay, ME) check out his 1959 Burst (See below), and now Drew Berlin is up on the boards with his Honey Baby, a 1956 Les Paul Custom, fitted with 2 real PAFs. Ay, Carumba.
This stick has a pedigree that would make your head swim, including Drew's 10 years with the Originator, Little Richard.
Whoooooooooooooooooooo, indeed.
SOME LES PAUL CUSTOM INFO...
Nowadays, beginning with the reintroduction in 1968 after seven-odd years in mothballs, The LPC is pretty much a Standard with an ebony fingerboard and fancier trim.
It was not always thus.
From late 1953 until on or about the end of 1960, Customs were one huge hunk of mahogany. No maple cap. With just a paltry handful of exceptions, the early ones had a unique P90/ Alnico set of pickups, while the last three years of the run featured THREE PAF hum buckers. Many, I for one, have longed for a 2 PAF fifties Custom.
Drew has one. This one.
NOTA BENE Dave Belzer has a conventional 3 pickup Custom which is just a couple of serial numbers apart from the one Clapton used with Lennon in Toronto, with Delaney and Bonnie, and elsewhere.
