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Gibson Les Paul
Chad's AOTGL ES-335 Guitar photo taken at Mansun Convention 2014
Manufacturer	Gibson
Period	1961–present
Construction
Body Type	Solid
Neck Joint	Set
Scale	24.75"
Woodbody	Mahogany
Woodneck	Mahogany
Fretboard	Ebony or Rosewood
Hardware
Bridge	Fixed or Gibson vibrato
Pickups	1, 2 or 3 Humbuckers; 1 or 2 P-90s; certain entry-level versions had single coil pickups.
Colours and Styling
Styling	Mostly cherry but also natural, walnut, white, black and various specialty colors and bursts. Custom stickers

Guitars

Red and Black/AOTGL Roses

Paul's Les Paul Gibson started off with the Red/Black dual colour body that any mansun fan will recognise, before the album Attack of the Grey Lantern was due to be released both him and fellow Guitarist Dominic Chad had both of their guitars covered in huge Purple rose styled stickers covering the guitar bodies entirely.

Following on from when the guitar was sold the new owner, a fan of Mansun decided to revive the original guitar body and removed the sticker, which was signed by Paul Draper but looking tatty.

In 2015 during one of the Spooky Action recording sessions the new owner (Stuart) of Paul's Red/Black Les Paul Gibson brought it along and Paul Draper was reunited with his old guitar which was used to tour with the band solidly. According to Frank Hiis' blog here (who was also invited to attend the final Spooky Action recording session) it is mentioned that Paul wanted to use his old guitar to record on one of his new songs from Spooky Action.

Black Standard

Guitar Gallery

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  Fan photo taken in 1997

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  Paul's Les Paul in action

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  Paul performing with his Black Les Paul

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  Paul using the guitar with the Roses sticker on the front.

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  Paul reunited with his Red/Black Les Paul during the final full band Spooky Action recording session.

References