THE STORY OF ‘PEARLY GATES’

FORGET JOHN AND YOKO, THIS IS ROCK’S MOST ENDURING LOVE AFFAIR...

It was after spying Eric Clapton with an old Gibson Les Paul ‘Sunburst’ on the back of the 1966 John Mayall Blues Breakers album that Billy Gibbons was to stumble upon the guitar of his dreams. “I got very lucky,” he says. “A friend said, ‘Hey, weren’t you looking for one of those Les Paul guitars like your buddy Clapton?’ I said, ‘Yeah. They’re so hard to find.’ “Anyway, he said there was one on a ranch just outside of Houston. An old cowboy has it. So, I jumped at the opportunity… and that was Pearly Gates. “Where did the name come from? Well, we had a girl friend who had an opportunity to take a part in a movie, but she had no way to get to California. I…

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Guitarist (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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