"Pick of the Day" - 2003 Gibson Custom Shop R9 and 2013 Mesa Boogie Mark V

Today we've got another piece out of the collection of 'Music Machine' Les Pauls with wood hand selected by Dave Carpenter - a beautiful 2003 Gibson Custom Shop 1959 Les Paul R9 with a wonderful Brazilian Rosewood fretboard! This one has a uniquely dark sunburst over perfect flamed top, and has an outstanding sound with classic PAF tones. This one has all the goodies in the original case and is just a top-notch instrument! Today we have Karl plugging this into a killer 2013 Mesa Boogie Mark V combo, which is an incredibly versatile amp that can be switched between 90/45/10w settings, easily re-biased between different power tubes, with 3 distinct channels, a 5-band master eq, reverb, and all the major settings accessible through the footswitch!
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Music: The Hollers "Zeb" (Instrumental)

[@darwinsaye]

Kudos to Karl for the tasteful playing and including clean tones.

[@karlvandervelden3373]

Many thanks! I do what I can :)

[@jacobansari808]

These guys are such adults, I would have just started playing dream theater riffs

[@21vision]

@Donald Frank imagine being so insecure that you have to do this

[@WhiskeySam1]

This is the right way to demo this amp. Every body knows a Mesa will chug & shred with the best. It’s all the other amazing clean, edge-of-breakup tones that sometimes get missed.

[@Thomaslig]

Love it when we get to hear LP clean tones. So underrated.

[@chimesoffreedom9026]

I love that jangly 60’s tone on the clean side with the treble switch.

[@toddgibson6817]

never been much of a boogie guy, but that amp just screams goodness.

[@shanebrbich5698]

Am I wrong to say that this may be The Best combination of a 59 Les Paul and Amp! I mean, it could be any 59 (re issue or original)
This amp is Awesome!
👍🇦🇺

[@pappyodanial]

I think this is the one with the Madagascar rosewood fretboard that was all of LP forums... I tell you, the thing sounds insanely good. The BODY wood of this guitar makes it sound sick.

[@rogercardenas111]

And that's when and why the two companies merged together.🎼🎵🎶🎙️😎

[@Chris-qy3dp]

Man that tone at 8:00 made me sit up 🔥🔥🔥. Somehow $6,700 seems like a fair price for that guitar….it’s drop dead gorgeous and sound even better.

[@nickspann89]

Cool I actually have a R9 and a Mark V. Very versatile amp.

[@elliot1405]

That’s one of the nicest LP’s I’ve ever seen. Damn. Love the white MOP inlays. Usually go for the ebony fretboard but the Brazilian is pretty bitchin not gonna lie.

[@scottfleming2166]

When’s it’s all said and done, a Mesa Mark V is all the amp you need.

[@GuitarExpress]

Loved that Gibson decided to use Brazilian Rosewood in some Reissue models in 2003!

[@lukegalvan3093]

El tiiiiiio

[@samplings]

What did you condition the board with? Great video!

[@clickbaito8059]

Lemon oil.

[@marcpereira6297]

What's the weight on that R9?

[@bernardf.6337]

Finally starts playing at 4:30…. Half of the video was wasted talking about stuff that we already know.

[@정범진-b4q]

serial n : 9 31010
This is not a brazilian R9 in 2003

[@Zoso7227]

I had this amp and mostly miss the cleans on it. Never liked the distortion

[@elb64x2]

Emerald City prophecy

[@Starch1b2c3d4a]

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