Adam Jones, and 3/4 of Tool release track/film for his new signature Les Paul 1979 guitar.

How is Adam Jones, 1 person of 4 members, 3/4 of Tool? Serious question here, because I genuinely don't understand your thread title. Is this Adam with Danny and Justin?



Update: I just skipped through parts to sample it in sections, and I did see at the end that it is all 3. Your thread title was a bit confusing to me.

I will listen to this in its entirety next, because this sounded better than anything on the last Tool record. This was very tight!

Thanks for this. I'll check it out later.

Street price of $10K minty and $13K factory relic'ed. Insane.

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Street price of $10K minty and $13K factory relic'ed. Insane.

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I bought my black 1979 Les Paul Custom used for $400 in 1985. Still have it.

As I was watching the video last night, I realized, holy shite, Adam made this

Then it was quickly, holy shite, this sounds like Tool, but different and fresh.

Wish they'd have done some stuff like this on the last album. This is really good.

Neck pick up upside down?

Yes on the spun neck pickup, the poles for that position are typically position to the fingerboard side of the guitar. Not that it matters ...

Because here's a tiddy of Gibson history and stupid trivia for your reading enjoyment! Grab a snack and bev of choice and read on ...

Seth Lover was the designer of the humbucker for Gibson. What we know today as "PAFs," named for the patent-applied-for sticker on the baseplate. Gibson head Ted McCarty charged Lover with the task of creating a pickup that would be immune to the 60-cycle hum produced by both Gibson's period pickup of choice, the P-90, and the pickups of Gibson's primary competition, Leo Fender.

Lover's prototypes did not have exposed screw pole pieces, the covers were unpunched with 12 concealed poles underneath.

The six exposed and protruding screw (adjustable) pole pieces were an add at the request of Gibson's sales division, who said the screws would allow PAF owners the opportunity to adjust their poles to their tastes and tailor their tone balance to their needs.

It was a one up and an thinly-veiled rub on Fender. Their single coil pickups were not only not hum cancelling, their pole pieces were magnetized slugs that were not height adjustable. And Fender couldn't respond ... their slug magnet alloy, AlNiCo, was too hard to machine and fab beyond simple rods, typically shattering if one tried to cut an adjustment slot or screw threads in them.

It took them over 10 years to come up with a humbucking response. It was the Wide Range Humbucker of the 1970s.

Who designed it? Seth Lover. He worked for CBS-owned Fender by the late 1960s.