Chords for Bernie Marsden's 1959 Les Paul Standard

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[G] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ [C#] So, good readers of guitarists, this is it, this is the Beast. _ _
Contrary to some of the recent _ _ forums, _ I still own this guitar and [G] have done since 1974 when
a guy produced it at a gig at the Marquis _ _ and tuned it up and said use it for the encore.
I already had said I can't afford it, but he tuned it up for me, I plugged it in and
it was stupendous and as I came off the stage I said how much did you want for it?
_ And he wanted the princely sum of about £600 for it, which I could not afford.
_ And so we did a deal, I'm not going to say what we did a deal for.
_ But I lost a couple of guitars which seemed a lot to me at the time, but I think _ with
hindsight I probably did the best.
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_ _ _ _ [F#] first time I used this professionally was with _ _ Wild Turkey and then the first time
I used it on TV was with Cozy Pal. _
This can be seen in the Whitesnake videos and every song on the Whitesnake albums is
this guitar if it's me playing.
And I wrote Here I Go Again _ on this guitar.
So it's been pretty integral to my [E] career really.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ What can I say about this thing except it is what it is. _ _
[B] In Joe Bonamassa's very words, that thing is sick.
_ _ He played it at Hammersmith _ [G] in 2011.
It was the first time I'd ever heard it played in concert. _ _ _
And it was a weird thing, it was a bit like seeing your _ grown up child singing at a gig really.
And I realised then why people have been saying to me for years, that's a great guitar because
it does sound great.
In the right guy's hands.
_ This is the one that Gary Moore said, can I borrow that?
And I loaned him an SG for a long time when he was in Coliseum.
And he said, any chance of using that one?
And I went, no, but I do like to try.
_ It's got some history, a lot of people have played this guitar.
_ Jeff Beck has played this guitar a lot better than I do.
_ He played Scatterbrain on this guitar in a dressing room in Purley.
What a memory I have.
You don't forget things like that.
Steve Lukath has played this guitar and a lot of other people. _ _
It's pretty much been part of my _ career. _
Go back to 74 and then go back up to 15 years ago.
It was pretty much omnipresent, I think that's the word, isn't it?
Something like that.
Want to hear it?
Yeah.
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