Seeing as how August is Guitar Month here at Sweetwater, you might think we’d be tempted to give away a really awesome guitar and a killer amp to plug it into. Of course you’d be right and this month’s Gear Giveaway is one of the biggest ever! We’re starting off with a true rock icon: the Gibson Les Paul Standard. Picking up this guitar is like stepping into a time machine and arriving at your local music store circa 1960. Up on the wall, gleaming like a precious gem in the store lights is a Les Paul Standard. Naturally, it has all the classic Les Paul features, like a solid mahogany back with a carved, figured maple top, two humbucking pickups, an ABR-1 bridge, and stop tailpiece. But what makes this one of the most sought-after Les Pauls is the fact that the mahogany neck has the ’60’s slim-taper profile – arguably one of the fastest Gibson has ever produced.
Of course, anyone would love to win this beauty, but we’re sweetening this Giveaway with the addition of a Marshall Stack! You’ve seen these monster amps behind such legendary performers as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and The Who. But wait! There’s something about this amp that’s decidedly different from those 1960s stacks, and that’s the 100-watt, 3-channel, all-tube Marshall TSL 100, an all-tube head that includes an onboard reverb and tonal variations that run the gamut from Super Clean to Crunch to High-Gain Distortion. This amp definitely delivers that unmistakable Marshall sound with plenty of additional sound shaping cababilities. Hey, it only takes a few minutes to enter, so why not do it right now?