Gibson releases nicely priced Modern Collection Les Paul Special Tribute

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Gibson announced the Modern Collection Les Paul Special Tribute back in January for winter NAMM, and now the electric guitar is officially available.

The new model boasts a mahogany body with a rounded maple neck and rosewood fingerboard with 22 medium jumbo frets.

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.