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Jonathan Horsley

“It has been used on dozens of famous recordings under the stewardship of its previous three owners”: Watch Chicago Music Exchange’s guitar genius Nathaniel Murphy play a virtuoso solo Led Zeppelin cover on a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard

Nathaniel Murphy plays a 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard.

Chicago Music Exchange had a unicorn in its vaults in the shape of a stunning 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard, used on “dozens of famous recordings” that has now been sold, for an undisclosed but guaranteed megabucks fee, but before they released it back into the wild the Illinois gear institution turned loose its resident guitar virtuoso, Nathaniel Murphy, on the guitar and shot one last video with it for posterity.

What do you play when you’re on camera and have a super-rare electric guitar with a six-figure price tag and a two-and-a-half minutes of footage to shoot to remember it by? 

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