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“I told Gibson, ‘You know, the wood was different back then...,’ and they went, ‘We’re going to match it.’ The guitar is heavy, man”
— ADAM JONES

Jimmy Page and Joe Perry to Billy Gibbons and Slash, have been associated with specific Les Paul models over the years. But it’s safe to say that when it comes to the world of modern hard rock and metal, there’s no artist-and-Les-Paul pairing as iconic and instantly identifiable as Tool’s Adam Jones and

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