These look good.
They are Slash’s pick ups.
Found them on ebay for £170
Just a thought. If it were me I’d be looking for Gibson PAF’s but also looking to install them so they’re out of phase.
For more info on this look up Gary Moore’s old Les Paul which was originally Peter Greens. Kirk Hammet owns it now.
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What a decent PAFs and how much? Cheers
Seems I may have given you some good bad advice 
Gibson PAFs are what you want or I should say what I’d go for but apparently you’ll probably need to sell body parts to get a pair. Short of a fluke that is. Gibson P90’s are far more affordable.
Came across this article that might help.
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Yeah i watched a vid on youtube and someone said a pair went for £10k! I was like that cant be them! haha
I’m quite happy with most heavy/high gain flavours of Seymour Duncans.
Well you did ask 
Being truthful I had no idea especially since you can buy a genuine Les Paul for far less. There’s a clarity to them which I like.
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Ive been told Epiphone PAFs’ especially from around 94 to 06, either from the Fine or Samek plants in Korea are virtually indistinguishable from Gibson, and indeed, is one explanation for Gibsons demise, making inferior guitars to such a high standard only damaged its own superior brand.
Quite possible. The weird thing with Gibson was it was their shoddy workmanship that actually created the legend in the first place. Their pickups varied and the whole out if phase thing was a pure accident and a lottery. Pure luck whether you found one wired that way or not.
RS have been inaccurate for the last two Top Hundreds, had Gilmour somewhere around 79 last time 
anyway it should be obvious that Frank Zappa was the hands down best.
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Certainly not my top 10, although I would probably go with Hendrix at 1.
The list of possibles that could easily make that list is extensive and would include Zappa. Others for example could be Moore, Gilmour, Slash, Peter Green, Robert Johnson, Cliffs of Dover Johnson, SRV, both Kings, Angus Young, Malmsteen, Michael Schenker, Rory Gallagher, Les Paul, Brian May, Jeff Healey, Buddy Guy, Satriani, and Vai. I can go on.
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Nor mine. I usually get beasted for this but Hendrix was good but not THAT good. I also think lots of these players get credit for something more than guitar playing, which is certainly the case for JH. Even if he did change it, he was not by any chalk the first to turn it up loud or play distorted. But the first time I heard Voodoo Chile I was like OMG - I should play his studio albums more and revisit this.
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No but there was /is something. This sense of rhythm, inversions timing etc. It was enough to drag every guitarist of interest at the time to come and watch him when he landed in London.
My list would be made up of players that changed the landscape I think. That would put Hendrix up there, van Halen too. Neither’s music I would rate above some others but the impact they had can’t be understated.
Yes I agree JH brought a lot together into the finished article. But thats more than being a pure guitarist isnt it? Zappa was the first to use inversions, and distortion, but he stayed in the avant garde and remains unpopular. Had this same debate with a busker a while back, who agreed about Frank, and then said, tell me one Zappa album you can play through? He was right, the song writing is poor, so enough said, but as a pure guitarist, Ive honestly not heard anyone even get close.
one of our friends pulled out a gorgeous Taylor GX Mini Koa around a campfire on Sat night. nicest woodgrain I’ve ever seen on a guitar that wasn’t a Les Paul.
That list looks more like the list of the most influential guitar players in the world, rather than the best ones, but that’s OK, lists are always subjective.
For what it’s worth, I’d have Jeff Loomis, Glenn Tipton and Jerry Cantrell in my top three. At least when it comes to those I listen to almost every day, I’d also have James Hetfield, Pepper Keenan, Chuck Schuldiner, Mikael Akerfeldt and Bruce Franklin in my top list. All for different reasons but one thing they all have in common is that they nailed their understanding of blues playing.
That’s why I’ve always absolutely admired the way Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore played but the older I am, the heavier is the music I listen to, so I never got to properly get involved with their work.
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Yes I was making the same point. Jerry Cantrell though, the best of the grunge era by far, doesnt get the credit he deserves. Such a loss to lose Lane early on that had a profound effect on his later output. Those two were an absolute unit, huge loss for Jerry. Alice Unplugged one of my all time faves.
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could say the same about Stone Temple Pilots for losing Scott Weiland.
I remember reading a story that Layne Stayley was on a heroin binge when recording Dirt and doesn’t remember it.
Slash has somehow survived through the 80’s, to now as a rock icon and got to work with Weiland on Velvet Revolver. Talk about a guy with his own sound and style…
Is probably true, he looks visibly smakd out on the MTV set.
Dean Delillo is another underrated guitarist, Silvergun Superman and Interstate love song. Weiland was an excellent frontman. STP always lent themselves to a punk style. Probably my favourite sound of that grunge era, even if they placed themselves outside of it.