It's a 1971, a brown one. I also have a black one that was one of the first prototypes made of what they call the recording guitar due to its low impedance device. The black one's so good that I'm afraid to take it down to the club because if I leave it on that stool it would be gone in a minute. You know, when I was in Chicago they'd take a jack to the lid of the car trunk. I lost many guitars that way - stolen. They should do it more with accordions...[ laughs]. - Les Paul
(How many times when guitarist talk about Les Paul they are refering to the guitar this man endorsed (yes endosed not invented!! see below) instead of the man himself? The man himself actually prefers the relatively obscure/less popular Les Paul Recording where he invented the pickups on that guitar. Les Playing his LP Recording on this promo for a doco. - Ed)
(The significance of Les Paul's contributions to his Gibson guitar design remains controversial. The book "50 Years of the Gibson Les Paul" limits Paul's contributions to two: advice on the trapeze tailpiece, and a preference for color (stating that Paul preferred gold as "it looks expensive", and a second choice of black because "it makes your fingers appear to move faster on the box", and "looks classy—like a tuxedo" from Wikipedia.)
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