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Have Guitar! presents Greco Les Paul EG-800 Custom vs Gibson Les Paul Standard. "Versus" might be a bit misleading - I just wanted to see how they sounded when used for similar sounds in a recording. Both are very nice guitars for sure. (Don't know why the video continues after the track is silenced...)

So, Greco might be best known for being one of the "law-suit" guitar brands. Greco started producing guitars allready in 1960, the very much Gibson-like models started coming out in the earley 70's. And then there's whole law-suit era, which I am not going to dive into here but see the links below. The EG-800 that can be heard in this video is a copy of the black Gibson Les Paul Custom that Peter Frampton used on the classic album "Frampton comes alive!". I am not 100 % certain but I think this Greco EG-800 Custom was manufactured in around 1978 or maybe 1979.

About my Gibson Les Paul - well, I really don't know that much about it! It is manufactured in 1976 and I bought it for a really low price in 1986, when no-one wanted Gibson and Fender - ironically it was all about japanese racer guitars back then... The bell on the head says "standard" but there's a stamp on the back of the head that actually says "DeLuxe".I read somewhere that in 1976 all Les Pauls were either "Custom" or "DeLuxe" and some "Deluxes" were shipped with standard humbuckers rather than p90's.

So, I still have the Gibson but I traded away the Greco - not that it was a bad guitar, just had the need for something else. I hope you like the video, this was the first video to be published on Have Guitar! youtube channel and nowadays there's a whole lot more to watch... and more content being added every week. Feel free to subscribe to Have Guitar! for more lovable videos!

Peter Framptons Les Paul:
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Greco on Wikipedia:
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