I Got A Guitar Inspired By BOCCHI THE ROCK

[Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] well it finally happened I got my first proper Gibson Les Paul biggest source of inspiration for this anime naturally you know when I first started playing guitar I actually started out with a guitar that looked a lot like this it was also a black Les Paul with Gold Hardware but it was a cheap copy not a proper Gibson or epone for that matter I unfortunately don't have a picture of my first guitar because believe it or not when I first started smartphones didn't exist but ultimately this kind of guitar is what I really just cut my teeth on when I first started playing and is what I put the most hours into and what got my chops up and running basically even though I moved on to playing a lot of different guitars throughout my guitar playing career the Les Paul is something that's always felt more familiar to me probably because of those formative years so this begs the question why did I seek out a Les Paul so many of my favorite guitar players have played Les Paul so to me having a guitar that looks and sounds like a lot of my guitar playing influences is important to me aside from my very first guitar I already owned a Les Paul Custom in the past not a Gibson proper but one by the Orville brand that was licensed by Gibson exclusively for the Japanese Market that was a good guitar that sounded and played amazing especially after I made some upgrades but it wasn't a perfect guitar I ultimately traded it away for something else that that made more sense at the time after using it as my main guitar for the past few years but little did I know how much I'd immediately miss having a Les Paul in my Arsenal I started watching Boi the rock around the time when it came out and seeing Boi play her Les Paul Custom made me think about where it all started for me me sitting in a room with my very first guitar which looked very similar to what Boi had I played it so much that it literally fell apart kind of like what happened to Boi later in the show and I eventually had to upgrade to a new guitar but many times since then I've thought about getting a good version of my first guitar seeing Boi absolutely shred on her Les Paul as well as being the most relatable train wreck she gave me the final push to pursue getting a Les Paul so according to what I've looked up online Boi's lespaul is most likely a Gibson 1968 lespaul custom reissue which retails for 8,349 Canadian dollars new before tax yikes I'm not looking to lose an arm and leg to go for a onetoone visual match so I think a compromise is in order here but just by looking at the prices of other Gibson Les ball Customs new or used these options aren't much better for me so we're going to have to look elsewhere there's the epone Les Paul Custom which is a great guitar for the money and even Boi's voice actor used one pretty extensively in a few videos I saw online where she learns how to play guitar heck there's even a Boi edition of the epone Les ball custom but from what I gathered only 200 of them are being manufactured exclusively for the Japanese Market but honestly aside from the koku ban gig bag and a gold sticker with Boi's autograph I'd be hard pressed to find much of a difference between this and a standard production epone Les PA that you can find in stores and while on paper this already seems like the best option that we have I'm not going to go with it it is really good for the money but I'm not looking for a stepping stone I want a good guitar that I can own for life so personally this one's just not for me but but it might work out for you if you're just looking for a bang for the buck guitar that is a good match for what Boi has I could have gotten another Japanese made lespa much like the Orville that I used to have or other brands that make copies like Greco or Bernie these guitars have excellent craftsmanship and serve as excellent mod platforms the only issue is that finding decent ones locally can be pretty hard and you typically have to order used ones online overseas from Japan sight unseen this time around I just wanted an actual Gibson guitar and I knew that I would have to compromise in order to meet that requirement the Les Paul studio is a model that I thought about because I knew that the older models had ebony fretboards something that is usually exclusive to the Les Paul Custom nowadays I eventually found exactly what I was looking for online and I started off with a trade offer since I already had some gear that I was looking to part with and I'm super happy to say that it went through [Music] [Applause] nicely [Applause] so this guitar in particular is a 1994 Gibson lespa studi so it's not actually the exact lespa that Boi plays but it does follow the spirit because it is a black Les paaw with Gold Hardware this one in particular does connect with me a bit more because it's essentially a guitar for the working musician cuz something like the Les paa custom just costs way too much but this one it has the same level of craftsmanship but just without the extra bells and whistles so it's just straightforward just rock so one thing that makes this guitar feel a lot closer to the Les Paul Custom than most other Les Pauls is that this one in particular comes with an ebony fretboard which is not common for this model nowadays it typically comes with a rosewood fretboard which does not look or feel the part at all I think the ebony when just looking at it and playing it it just feels more premium when it comes to comparing my guitar and Boi's guitar side to side though there are some differences but they're basically just aesthetic differences when you look at this guitar as a whole compared to boat cheese there is no binding on the edges of the body fretboard and headstock so this one has a bit more of a minimalistic appearance the fretboard inlays on Boi's guitar have a block inlay whereas this one is more shaped like a uh upside down Top Hat trapezoid I meant trapezoid but for all intents and purposes this is basically just a lespa custom that's more attainable in terms of where this guitar sits price points and quality wise it sits right in the sweet spot for me because there is no way I am paying for a real Gibson lespol custom even if I did somehow get one I would be afraid of playing that thing because I feel like if I even touched that kind of guitar I would immediately devalue it so there's no way that I would be getting one so at the end of the day holding and playing this guitar immediately just brings me back to the time when I first started playing guitar and I really like that about this it just makes me think about the first chords and songs that I played and this also just brings me back to the first bands that I listen to which ultimately served as a Gateway for my musicianship while I do have other instruments in my Arsenal that are more modern in terms of engineering and design it's still really nice to have something that's just meat and potatoes really this is overall just a really simple Workhorse that is ready to get played so all in all this is honestly just thanks to Boi The Rock being such a good show and just bringing back all these memories that I have of my own guitar Journey just by watching Boi go through hers so yeah I got this essentially because of anime all right so that's enough chatter I think it's about time we go ahead and see what we can create with this [Music] [Music] thing [Music] right folks isn't theas fall such a cool guitar

Channel: Lorenzo de Sequera

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Length: 8min 49sec (529 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 05 2024