Recent content by Earle G

Paul Revere and the Raiders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtOE3Cy-FJI&feature=related Think Jerry Miller and Bob Mosley of Moby Grape were from the NW area. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK8d-5SCenY

Considering all your this and thats I would stick with what you have and fix or tweek it for the time being.

Well Jimi was infruenced by Curtis on his chording but thing there were some others that never hit the internet in their life. They were guys that played clubs and gospel on Sundays. They most often used chord substitutions like playing an Am7 over a CMaj chord with an arpeggios line of note...

Probably do well for slide playing.

Try re-wiring it to the "vintage" wiring as that doesn't lose the highs and get muddy when volume is lowered. You shouldn't have to change much from existing, just where the wires connect from the volume pot to tone pot.

Go with the "vintage" Les Paul wiring. The pickups don't lose highs when the volume is lowered.

Very nice indeed. The serial number seems like a '95 mfg. year. That explains the light weight if so as Gibson was having a tough time finding lighter (low silica content) wood as time went on. Also if a '95 it could be a Tom Murphy finish on it. He actually used Iodine in the finish of that...

I use 10s on Teles. These seem to be a happy medium and balance. I like .011s too but there is a trade off a bit on .009s and .011s for Teles.

I played a Gibson Historic ES-5 (3-P90s) at a show years ago that was really fine. For an acoustic think it could be a '49 Martin D-18 that belongs to a guy in OR.