02/15/2023
Gibson Les Paul 1959 Ser. # 9 0663
This guitar was originally owned by Joe Perry whose first wife sold it in the early 80s after their divorce to a music shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts for $4,500. Billy Loosigian, who worked at the shop, bought it himself, and played until 1987 when he sold it to a guitar dealer Gerry Beaudoin. It didn’t take long before Garry sold the instrument to Eric Johnson, who played it for a bit, but after finding out that it belonged to Perry, he offered to sell the guitar to him for the same price he payed. Perry didn’t have the money at that moment, so Eric contacted a few more people interested in buying it. Among them was Slash.
Loosigian reported that the guitar had pits all over the fingerboard when he first bought it. It also had Japanese style plastic tuners and the covers were removed from the pickups. He replaced the tuners with Klusons, installed Gibson pickup covers and re-fretted the neck. The guitar remains in this state to this day.
Slash played it in “November Rain” music video and on the “Use Your Illusion” studio sessions.
This Les Paul remained with him up until 2000, despite Perry’s constant efforts to buy it back. Finally on September 10th, Slash saw a great opportunity to surprise Perry: “I kept the guitar for a long time; but I knew that Joe really loved it probably as much as I did. So I gave it to him for his birthday. “
1959-1967 [7 years] ? (unknow)
1967-1982 [16 years] Joe Perry
1982-1984 [2 years] Billy Loosigian
1984-1988 [5 years] Eric Johnson
1989-2000 [11 years] Slash
2000-today [12 years] Joe Perry
