![]() ![]() A decade on and the Epiphone version is here at an axcessible price (sorry) so how do all these intriguing features stack up alongside the tried and true familiarity of a Les Paul Standard? There's only one way to find out! The Gibson Alex Lifeson Les Paul Axcess was a Custom Shop model with a price tag to reflect that. Gibson was great, and we went through a whole lot of different weight models and pickups.” We really wanted to come up with a good utility guitar on a solid platform like the Les Paul. “Gibson did a nice job with the neck carve at the back because it’s always been a little difficult to get up high. “We’ve switched out the tone pot for a piezo volume pot to give control there," Lifeson continued, "and then the other tone control becomes a universal tone pot." “We have coil taps on the pickups, a Floyd Rose and the piezo is the second jack - the Life-O-Sound - that we run independently or you can mix both magnetic pickups and the piezo through the main output. ![]() Now we could explain those but who better than the prog legend himself? Alex Lifeson pictured in 2011 with his Gibson Les Paul Axcess signature model in Royal Crimson (Image credit: Future) ![]()
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