How many Les Pauls do you think they had with them on the '72 tour?
Keith used LP for 'Bitch', and "Bye Bye Johnny'. Also back then he was doing the 'Rambler' on a LP. I've seen Keith with a black LP, the one with a cream colored pick guard and binding on "Bitch". But "Johnny" and "Rambler" always with a tan LP. Then Taylor had his.
Is there a number? Did they change things up as the tour progressed?
What other songs did Keith use a LP? "Love in Vain"? And the Strat? Did he keep using it all through the tour?

Based on this Ken Reagan photo, it would appear to be two.

ken regan pic

My eagle-eyed guitar fan 9 year old boys want to know why Keef's transparent guitar (second from left) has the strap strapped on as if for a left-handed player?

On closer inspection, it could be a leg of the bench behind...

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My eagle-eyed guitar fan 9 year old boys want to know why Keef's transparent guitar (second from left) has the strap strapped on as if for a left-handed player?

That goes for some of the others as well. I don't know why

The Dan Armstrong is a bass, btw.

Ha ha! Spotted the strap position, but in all the excitement didn't notice that it was a bass!

Still, it is a little odd, no? Wonder why they would do that. Perhaps someone can shed some light on this most important of mysteries...

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My eagle-eyed guitar fan 9 year old boys want to know why Keef's transparent guitar (second from left) has the strap strapped on as if for a left-handed player?

Because Bill Wyman always fitted a second strap button to the lower horn of his basses, so that he could tilt the neck up higher -to almost vertical. He did this to all his basses until the headless basses he started using from 1989 on.

Mathijs

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How many Les Pauls do you think they had with them on the '72 tour?
Keith used LP for 'Bitch', and "Bye Bye Johnny'. Also back then he was doing the 'Rambler' on a LP. I've seen Keith with a black LP, the one with a cream colored pick guard and binding on "Bitch". But "Johnny" and "Rambler" always with a tan LP. Then Taylor had his.
Is there a number? Did they change things up as the tour progressed?
What other songs did Keith use a LP? "Love in Vain"? And the Strat? Did he keep using it all through the tour?

Nobody knows how many guitars exactly they traveled with (according to Ted Newman Jones 'more than 30'), and they changed quite some guitars after half a dozen shows and nobody knows why (after San Francisco gone are the Dan Armstrong, ES-355, Bronco, LP Gold Top, sunburst Fender Telecaster, the Mustang basses, the 3 pickup Custom).

But on stage proven is that they used two Les Paul sunburst guitars (one for Mick Taylor and one for Keith, both owned by Taylor), Keith used a stripped down gold top Les Paul with P90 at some early shows (most likely for Happy and Tumbling Dice), a 3 pickup Custom with bigsby at one of the Seattle shows (with a capo on the second fret for an unidentified track), and a 1955 Les Paul Custom with P90 and Alnico staple pickup for Midnight Rambler and sometimes Bye Bye Johnnie.

Mathijs

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Palace Revolution 2000
How many Les Pauls do you think they had with them on the '72 tour?
Keith used LP for 'Bitch', and "Bye Bye Johnny'. Also back then he was doing the 'Rambler' on a LP. I've seen Keith with a black LP, the one with a cream colored pick guard and binding on "Bitch". But "Johnny" and "Rambler" always with a tan LP. Then Taylor had his.
Is there a number? Did they change things up as the tour progressed?
What other songs did Keith use a LP? "Love in Vain"? And the Strat? Did he keep using it all through the tour?

Nobody knows how many guitars exactly they traveled with (according to Ted Newman Jones 'more than 30'), and they changed quite some guitars after half a dozen shows and nobody knows why (after San Francisco gone are the Dan Armstrong, ES-355, Bronco, LP Gold Top, sunburst Fender Telecaster, the Mustang basses, the 3 pickup Custom).

But on stage proven is that they used two Les Paul sunburst guitars (one for Mick Taylor and one for Keith, both owned by Taylor), Keith used a stripped down gold top Les Paul with P90 at some early shows (most likely for Happy and Tumbling Dice), a 3 pickup Custom with bigsby at one of the Seattle shows (with a capo on the second fret for an unidentified track), and a 1955 Les Paul Custom with P90 and Alnico staple pickup for Midnight Rambler and sometimes Bye Bye Johnnie.

Mathijs

Thanks so much Mathijs. I knew you'd have it. I think that is what confused me - that it seemed like early on they had a bunch of guitars that then were not seen again. the 3 PU black one I know didn't last also. But I have seen either photos or footage of Keith with a black 2 PU LP, with cream colored pickguard. I think one of the main bootlegs even has that as a cover.

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KR Gibson ad

You wouldn't see teeth like that in an advert these days. Probably a good thing.