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Warren Haynes new signature models
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Documenting the content, beyond the link - not discussed in the article is the P-90 versions spec'd by Warren are the dual-coil 'DC' version.
With a 60s Cherry finish and chunky mahogany neck, the guitar takes after the Gov't Mule man's favorite Les Pauls, and his beloved 1961 ES-335
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NAMM 2025: Last November, Warren Haynes – he of Gov't Mule and formerly the Allman Brothers Band – revealed that he had two new Gibson signature models in the works.
The most notable aspect of said models, Haynes said, were their P-90 pickups.
“I have always played humbuckers for the most part, but whenever I pick up a guitar with P-90s in it I get some inspiration from it,” he explained in an interview with American Musical Supply. “[Haynes and Gibson] have been talking about it for a long time.”
Now, the first of the two models, a Cherry-finished Les Paul, has arrived.
Now, details of the guitar are quite scarce, but what we do know is that the guitar boasts a mahogany body with a plain maple cap and that aforementioned 60s Cherry finish, which is modeled after that found on his beloved 1961 ES-335.
The mahogany neck with a chunkier 50s vintage profile, in turn, takes after Haynes' favorite Les Pauls.
Aside from the P-90s, the Haynes Les Paul is also notably fitted with a toggleable on-board clean boost.
n addition to the Les Paul, Haynes said last year that a rare triple P-90 Firebird was also in the works. (“I am about to delve into P-90 world pretty hard,” he said, to be exact).
“They had made me a Custom Shop Firebird one time with three P-90s in it, and I had never played a three-pickup Firebird before,” Haynes explained last year.
“It took some getting used to with the middle pickup, but once I got used to that, the tonal options were great. You could get so many different sounds, and so I loved experimenting with all the different possibilities.
“I am looking for new inspiration, something to change the way that I play at any given moment,” he continued. “I love the fact that I have settled into a great sound with my Les Pauls through the years, but it is nice to challenge yourself sometimes – it creates a new spark that takes you into some new direction.”
We'll keep our eyes out for more info on the guitar as it becomes available, but for now visit Gibson to see the company's other new-for-2025 offerings.
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Prior teaser article HERE follows --
The upcoming builds will see the Allman Brothers Band icon swap his tried-and-trusted humbuckers for something a little more left-field
Warren Haynes has revealed he’s got two Gibson signature guitars in the works – both of which will see the Allman Brothers Band legend lean into his new-found affinity for P-90s.
Haynes is no stranger to Gibsons and humbuckers, having almost exclusively played Les Pauls, Firebirds, and other Gibson guitars throughout his career. He’s also had a few signatures already in the past, including a Les Paul Standard in 2007 and an ES-335 in 2014.
P-90 electric guitars, though, are another story altogether, and as the Southern rock heavyweight explains in a new American Musical Supply interview, he’s planning to make the switch for his next run of signatures.
“I am working on some prototypes with Gibson, an upcoming Les Paul with P-90s and an upcoming Firebird with three P-90s,” he said. “I am about to delve into P-90 world pretty hard.”
As for why he’s decided to defect pickup ranks after all this time, Haynes explains that, although he’s familiar with humbuckers, he finds P-90s to be especially inspiring. It’s a feeling that can be traced back to a Custom Shop Firebird that Gibson once gifted him, which unusually came loaded with three P-90s.
“I have always played humbuckers for the most part but whenever I pick up a guitar with P-90s in it I get some inspiration from it,” he continues. “We’ve been talking about it for a long time.
“When I first brought up that I wanted to do another signature model Les Paul, P-90s became the obvious choice, and they had made me a Custom Shop Firebird one time with three P-90s in it, and I had never played a three-pickup Firebird before.
“I am about to delve into P-90 world pretty hard”: Warren Haynes has teamed up with Gibson for a new signature Les Paul, and, spoiler alert, it's loaded with his new favorite pickups - By Jackson Maxwell
With a 60s Cherry finish and chunky mahogany neck, the guitar takes after the Gov't Mule man's favorite Les Pauls, and his beloved 1961 ES-335
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NAMM 2025: Last November, Warren Haynes – he of Gov't Mule and formerly the Allman Brothers Band – revealed that he had two new Gibson signature models in the works.
The most notable aspect of said models, Haynes said, were their P-90 pickups.
“I have always played humbuckers for the most part, but whenever I pick up a guitar with P-90s in it I get some inspiration from it,” he explained in an interview with American Musical Supply. “[Haynes and Gibson] have been talking about it for a long time.”
Now, the first of the two models, a Cherry-finished Les Paul, has arrived.
Now, details of the guitar are quite scarce, but what we do know is that the guitar boasts a mahogany body with a plain maple cap and that aforementioned 60s Cherry finish, which is modeled after that found on his beloved 1961 ES-335.
The mahogany neck with a chunkier 50s vintage profile, in turn, takes after Haynes' favorite Les Pauls.
Aside from the P-90s, the Haynes Les Paul is also notably fitted with a toggleable on-board clean boost.
n addition to the Les Paul, Haynes said last year that a rare triple P-90 Firebird was also in the works. (“I am about to delve into P-90 world pretty hard,” he said, to be exact).
“They had made me a Custom Shop Firebird one time with three P-90s in it, and I had never played a three-pickup Firebird before,” Haynes explained last year.
“It took some getting used to with the middle pickup, but once I got used to that, the tonal options were great. You could get so many different sounds, and so I loved experimenting with all the different possibilities.
“I am looking for new inspiration, something to change the way that I play at any given moment,” he continued. “I love the fact that I have settled into a great sound with my Les Pauls through the years, but it is nice to challenge yourself sometimes – it creates a new spark that takes you into some new direction.”
We'll keep our eyes out for more info on the guitar as it becomes available, but for now visit Gibson to see the company's other new-for-2025 offerings.
...
Prior teaser article HERE follows --
“When I brought up that I wanted to do another signature, P-90s became the obvious choice”: Warren Haynes has two signature Gibsons in the works – including a triple P-90 Firebird
- By Matt Owen ( Total Guitar, Guitarist ) published 6 November 2024The upcoming builds will see the Allman Brothers Band icon swap his tried-and-trusted humbuckers for something a little more left-field
Warren Haynes has revealed he’s got two Gibson signature guitars in the works – both of which will see the Allman Brothers Band legend lean into his new-found affinity for P-90s.
Haynes is no stranger to Gibsons and humbuckers, having almost exclusively played Les Pauls, Firebirds, and other Gibson guitars throughout his career. He’s also had a few signatures already in the past, including a Les Paul Standard in 2007 and an ES-335 in 2014.
P-90 electric guitars, though, are another story altogether, and as the Southern rock heavyweight explains in a new American Musical Supply interview, he’s planning to make the switch for his next run of signatures.
“I am working on some prototypes with Gibson, an upcoming Les Paul with P-90s and an upcoming Firebird with three P-90s,” he said. “I am about to delve into P-90 world pretty hard.”
As for why he’s decided to defect pickup ranks after all this time, Haynes explains that, although he’s familiar with humbuckers, he finds P-90s to be especially inspiring. It’s a feeling that can be traced back to a Custom Shop Firebird that Gibson once gifted him, which unusually came loaded with three P-90s.
“I have always played humbuckers for the most part but whenever I pick up a guitar with P-90s in it I get some inspiration from it,” he continues. “We’ve been talking about it for a long time.
“When I first brought up that I wanted to do another signature model Les Paul, P-90s became the obvious choice, and they had made me a Custom Shop Firebird one time with three P-90s in it, and I had never played a three-pickup Firebird before.
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We'll have to see the specs once they divulge more details.
His prior 2007 R8 'Inspired By' with unity gain buffer was active; from safe to infer he's OK with that on this one. The thing is: you have to unscrew the cavity cover on that CS Reissue style guitar versus the segregated battery chamber with pop-off lid Gibson uses elsewhere. Many folks who don't like to regularly inspect and change batteries get worried about battery leaks in open cavities; they don't have techs
From released images, this appears to be a modified USA Standard 50s, not a CS.
So, what will they choose here? I'm guessing...
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I was pretty excited when I saw a video mentioning this. I wonder if it will be Custom Shop or USA Standard.
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Just confirming it's active clean boost with the battery compartment as suspected.
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It's a modified USA Original Collection 50s Standard P-90s, confirmed.
The key difference from the Goldtops apart from the cherry top are the introduction of Gibson's new noiseless dual-coil P-90 design, and the 15dB clean boost. Also, they put a blank beveled TRC on it.
USA 'tells' ==> stamped serial number, headstock shape and size, tuner nuts and bushings. Hard to see, but sunken bridge bushings not historic screw posts.
Pretty cool guitar I will never play...
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Thanks JB for the info/update
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Mid-March availability. Been itching for a P90 Les Paul. I considered the Bonamassa 59 iridescent copper, but still procrastinating. Now this…
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Yes, the 'bones' are essentially a 50s USA model modified, yet the same 50s Vintage neck profile.
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CME had one on the floor when I was there yesterday. Looks kinda underwhelming. I didn't play it because it was HEAVY.
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Oops. Double post
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Why do they have someone demo a Firebird without playing it clean? Hard to know what a guitar really sounds like when there's someone playing it all ramped up...
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Gibson spent years trying to convince Warren Haynes to work on a signature guitar – this is what changed his mind
“My first reaction was, ‘There’s only one Les Paul.’ I prolonged the conversation”: Gibson spent years trying to convince Warren Haynes to work on a signature guitar – this is what changed his mind
His signature Les Paul steps away from his usual spec choices, and with good reason
For a Gibson loyalist with a resume as action-packed as Warren Haynes’, it seemed obvious that the rock guitar veteran eventually be honored with a signature guitar.
After some Les Paul creations as part of Gibson’s Inspired By series in 2022 and 2023, a fully-fledged, P-90 stocked signature arrived earlier this year, bearing his name – but, he says, he wasn’t convinced about the idea at first.
“I've played Gibson all my life, and they've just been really wonderful to me through the years,” he tells Setlist.fm. “So when they [Gibson] first started approaching me about making a signature model Les Paul years ago, maybe decades ago, my first reaction was, ‘Well, there's only one Les Paul.’
“Les Paul invented the electric guitar, and I happened to play a Les Paul guitar. There's nothing really special about it, so I kind of prolonged the conversation.”
Haynes liked his Les Paul as it was. A signature build would have been pretty straightforward, he understood that. Were a model to bear his name, it had to stick its head above the stock guitar parapet in some way.
“Eventually they were like, ‘Well, if you come up with some stuff about yours that's very different…’” Haynes explains. The firm was desperate to twist his arms, and this change of tact struck a chord with the guitarist.
“So we were able to make a Les Paul that was different than normal,” he says, with work beginning after Gibson had first copied his 1961 ES 335. “We're talking technical shop now, but the big difference is that it has P-90 pickups instead of humbucker pickups. And that's not normal, but I really like it a lot. I think they did a fantastic job. It was an honor to do that.”
Having spent most of his career playing humbucker guitars, the switch to P-90 pickups, which sit somewhere between the bite of a single-coil and the girth of humbuckers, was a shock. Even for Haynes. But he says change is a good thing.
“I’m really loving the hum-free P-90s,” he beams. “It’s a really cool tonal change, and the boost offers even more tonal options.”
The move comes after gear guru Joe Bonamassa made a bold claim that “most people who are real dyed-in-the-wool Gibson people will say behind closed doors that their favorite pickup is a P-90”.
“They're cleaner,” he argues. “There's a sparkle on top that a humbucking pickup doesn't get.” And that argument is compounded with his gorgeous Copper Iridescent Epiphone Les Paul signature. So, are we witnessing a P-90 renaissance?
“We’re all looking for new inspiration,” Haynes believes. “Some of us have been playing humbuckers for a long, long time. Most of the sounds I enjoy come from the guitar anyway. I’m not depending on pedals for the majority of the sounds that I use. I like to change the volume knob on the guitar to get a lot of different sounds that way, and P90s are definitely great for that.” A P-90 Firebird is also expected to follow in its wake.
Haynes has also sat down with Guitarist to discuss the greatest riffs of his career and the stories behind them after he reunited with Derek Trucks to finish an old Duane Allman song as a tribute to the late great.
“My first reaction was, ‘There’s only one Les Paul.’ I prolonged the conversation”: Gibson spent years trying to convince Warren Haynes to work on a signature guitar – this is what changed his mind
His signature Les Paul steps away from his usual spec choices, and with good reason
“My first reaction was, ‘There’s only one Les Paul.’ I prolonged the conversation”: Gibson spent years trying to convince Warren Haynes to work on a signature guitar – this is what changed his mind
His signature Les Paul steps away from his usual spec choices, and with good reasonwww.guitarworld.com
For a Gibson loyalist with a resume as action-packed as Warren Haynes’, it seemed obvious that the rock guitar veteran eventually be honored with a signature guitar.
After some Les Paul creations as part of Gibson’s Inspired By series in 2022 and 2023, a fully-fledged, P-90 stocked signature arrived earlier this year, bearing his name – but, he says, he wasn’t convinced about the idea at first.
“I've played Gibson all my life, and they've just been really wonderful to me through the years,” he tells Setlist.fm. “So when they [Gibson] first started approaching me about making a signature model Les Paul years ago, maybe decades ago, my first reaction was, ‘Well, there's only one Les Paul.’
“Les Paul invented the electric guitar, and I happened to play a Les Paul guitar. There's nothing really special about it, so I kind of prolonged the conversation.”
Haynes liked his Les Paul as it was. A signature build would have been pretty straightforward, he understood that. Were a model to bear his name, it had to stick its head above the stock guitar parapet in some way.
“Eventually they were like, ‘Well, if you come up with some stuff about yours that's very different…’” Haynes explains. The firm was desperate to twist his arms, and this change of tact struck a chord with the guitarist.
“So we were able to make a Les Paul that was different than normal,” he says, with work beginning after Gibson had first copied his 1961 ES 335. “We're talking technical shop now, but the big difference is that it has P-90 pickups instead of humbucker pickups. And that's not normal, but I really like it a lot. I think they did a fantastic job. It was an honor to do that.”
Having spent most of his career playing humbucker guitars, the switch to P-90 pickups, which sit somewhere between the bite of a single-coil and the girth of humbuckers, was a shock. Even for Haynes. But he says change is a good thing.
“I’m really loving the hum-free P-90s,” he beams. “It’s a really cool tonal change, and the boost offers even more tonal options.”
The move comes after gear guru Joe Bonamassa made a bold claim that “most people who are real dyed-in-the-wool Gibson people will say behind closed doors that their favorite pickup is a P-90”.
“They're cleaner,” he argues. “There's a sparkle on top that a humbucking pickup doesn't get.” And that argument is compounded with his gorgeous Copper Iridescent Epiphone Les Paul signature. So, are we witnessing a P-90 renaissance?
“We’re all looking for new inspiration,” Haynes believes. “Some of us have been playing humbuckers for a long, long time. Most of the sounds I enjoy come from the guitar anyway. I’m not depending on pedals for the majority of the sounds that I use. I like to change the volume knob on the guitar to get a lot of different sounds that way, and P90s are definitely great for that.” A P-90 Firebird is also expected to follow in its wake.
Haynes has also sat down with Guitarist to discuss the greatest riffs of his career and the stories behind them after he reunited with Derek Trucks to finish an old Duane Allman song as a tribute to the late great.
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What about this from 2007?
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Gibson Custom Shop "Inspired By" Warren Haynes Les Paul Standard Hayne
The following specs were carefully collected and recorded by a skilled technician. For a more detailed description and questions regarding sound, feel, or cosmetic condition, please call to speak to one of our experts.SummaryFinish Details: OriginalTop Material: Maple TopBody Material: Mahogany...
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I dig the red finish... but I'd prefer the whole guitar finished that way... the stain clashes imho.